Head of Product

OpenUp; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 130,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Vacation days

Personal development budget

ClassPass support

Internet & mobile allowance

Lunch provided

Flexible work model

Team events

Unlimited OpenUp access

Job summary

OpenUp is expanding internationally and hiring a first Head of Product to own the end-to-end product vision and roadmap. You will balance strategic direction with hands-on detail, guiding a diverse team toward delivering features that improve customer activation, retention, and revenue.

You will lead a cross-functional product organization, partner with commercial and success teams, and shape the AI-driven product strategy in a fast-growth, health-focused SaaS environment.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in product management, including 2–3 years leading other product managers
• Backgrounds in general management, strategy or running a business line welcomed
• A track record of owning a roadmap and portfolio of features and results
• Experience in B2B SaaS, ideally with a subscription/renewal model
• Excellent English; Dutch or German is a plus

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy planning and roadmap; translate company strategy into a clear, prioritised plan
• Collaborate with commercial and customer success to drive retention, expansion and revenue
• Own go-to-market for product and services; ensure successful launches and adoption
• Champion AI-native product development and measure AI feature quality
• Improve development transparency and risk visibility across teams and the company
• Lead and grow the team; manage PMs, hiring and role design with empathetic leadership

Skills

Commercial mindset

Decisive

People manager

Trusted by stakeholders

AI-fluent

Delivery credibility

Job description

Who we are

At OpenUp, our mission is to make mental well-being accessible to everyone. Following a ‘high tech & high touch’ approach, we support companies, their employees, and their families with proactive and practical mental health services. Through our digital platform, clients can access 1:1 check-ins, online courses, articles, videos, group sessions, mindfulness practices, and a team of committed mental well-being experts. As we believe that mental and physical well-being are deeply connected, we have also added Lifestyle Experts to our offering, focusing on nutrition, exercise, and sleep. We offer a truly holistic approach that helps people take ownership of their health. We’re proud to work with forward-thinking organizations and are committed to raising the bar on accessible care.

OpenUp was ranked in the Top 3 on LinkedIn’s Top Startups list for 2023, 2024 & 2025 and is continuously growing. We are expanding our international teams and we are searching for like-minded talent. We are already serving 2000+ companies (e.g. Rituals, Deloitte, Decathlon, KPMG, and McDonalds), through which 600K+ employees have access to our product.

About the role

We are hiring a first Head of Product to lead the execution of our product vision. You will own our product roadmap end to end: what we build, in what order, and how we know it worked. You will spend part of your time setting direction and part of it in detail with your team, close to the work and to the customer.

This is a hands-on leadership role. You set the bar for how the product team plans, prioritises and delivers, and you carry the outcome, reporting to the Chief Product & Technology Officer.

What you'll do

• Owning the product strategy planning & roadmap. Build the yearly planning, and turn company strategy into a clear, prioritised roadmap. Drive user activation with products and services, from user signup to activation to retention.
• Partner with commercial and customer success teams to drive NRR. Stay close to the market to understand what clients are buying and why. Bring that into the roadmap, to drive customer retention, expansion and revenue as naturally as in features.
• Own go-to-market for our product and services . Make launches land. Own positioning, enablement and the activation of new features with the teams that take them to market to drive user signup and adoption.
• Champion AI-native product development. Set a high bar for how the team uses AI to research, prototype and build, and for the quality of the AI features we ship. Know how to tell whether an AI product is genuinely getting better.
• Increase product development transparency and communication. Run the operating rhythm that keeps priorities aligned across teams and surfaces risks early, increasing visibility of the overall roadmap and build throughout the whole company.
• Lead and grow the team. Manage and coach a team of product managers, run hiring and role design, and give the kind of direct, caring feedback that helps people do their best work.

About you

You are an experienced product leader who has owned a product portfolio and managed other product managers, not only individual contributors. You are as comfortable in a commercial conversation as a technical one, and you are at your best when you are close to both the customer and the team.

• Commercially minded. You think in retention, expansion and revenue before features, and you can adapt the roadmap as a portfolio of bets.
• Decisive. You prioritize incomplete information and move on. You are comfortable telling a team their work is stopping, and you never mistake a framework for a decision.
• A real people manager. You give direct feedback in the moment because you care about the person. You build and grow teams, and you hold people to a high standard with warmth.
• Trusted by senior stakeholders. You hold your own with founders, commercial leaders and engineers alike, and your product decisions stick because of the relationships you build.
• AI-fluent. You work AI-natively yourself. You prototype and use AI tools without waiting for an engineer, and you can prioritise an AI product credibly, including judging its quality.
• Credible on delivery. When an engineer tells you something takes six weeks and not two, you know whether that is true, and you can push back without it becoming a fight.

Experience

• 8+ years in product management, including 2 - 3 years leading other product managers
• Backgrounds in general management, strategy or running a business line are as welcome as a classic product career.
• A track record of owning a roadmap and portfolio of features and initiatives and the results it delivered, not only the features you shipped
• Experience in B2B SaaS, ideally with a subscription or renewal model
• Excellent English; Dutch or German is a plus

Nice to have

• Experience in healthcare, mental well-being or another regulated space
• Familiarity with services delivered by people as well as by software
• Commercial or general management experience alongside product

What you can expect

Joining OpenUp means being part of a fast-growing company that's doing something meaningful. You'll work with a diverse and international team. We like to have fun together with a lot of team building activities like our weekly ‘borrels’ and after work sport classes, the yearly ski-trip and our Padel tournament. Which makes our work fun, challenging and dynamic. Apart from this, we offer:

• 27.5 vacation days per year.
• €1500 annual personal development budget
• ClassPass: OpenUp contributes towards your classpass membership
• A net allowance for internet and mobile phone use totalling €600 per year
• Daily healthy and vegetarian lunch at our office.
• Flexible work model (hybrid and options for remote work).
• Monthly drinks and company wide summer fest and other fun activities.
• And of course unlimited access to OpenUp for you and your family, including the 1:1 sessions with a psychologist, lifestyle expert, or financial coach

Next steps

If you have questions, please visit FAQ page or reach out directly.

At OpenUp, everyone is welcome to apply regardless of age, gender, background, nationality, or any other characteristic. What matters to us is high performance, a real drive to make an impact and the ambition to become the European market leader. If you're ready to OpenUp, join us!

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to streamline parts of our recruitment process. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgement. All hiring decisions are made by humans. If you would like more information about how we use AI in the process, please contact us.