Head of Product, AdTech & Ecommerce Growth

Vondel Venture Development; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible hybrid-working policy

Amsterdam office

15 days remote work policy

25 days annual leave

Company laptop

Travel cost reimbursement

ClassPass membership

Lunch and healthy office snacks

Team events and offsites

Job summary

Vondel Venture Development in Amsterdam is seeking a Head of Product to establish and lead our product discipline. You will own product vision and strategy, translating company objectives into a clear direction and roadmap proposals.

This hands-on leadership role reports to the CTO, manages the Product Manager, and collaborates with the Head of Engineering. You will guide a multidisciplinary team to create value for merchants, partners and shoppers across Europe.

Qualifications

• Significant product-management experience in e-commerce sector.
• Experience leading a product function, coaching product managers or establishing product practice in a growing organization.
• Strong customer-discovery, opportunity-assessment and product-analytics skills.
• Commercial judgement: connect customer value to revenue, retention, cost and strategic advantage.
• Record of working closely with software engineers and making good trade-offs without prescribing technical solutions.
• Clear communication and the confidence to challenge senior stakeholders with evidence.
• Comfort working hands-on in a small team while building structure that can scale.
• Professional fluency in English.
• University degree.

Responsibilities

• Own and communicate the product vision and strategy.
• Turn agreed company priorities into evidence-based roadmap proposals and a clearly ordered product backlog.
• Build a continuous understanding of merchants, partners and shoppers through research, product data and commercial insight.
• Establish practical discovery and validation methods so that important assumptions are tested before substantial delivery investment.
• Define product outcomes and measures, then use them to evaluate impact and adjust direction.
• Partner with the Head of Engineering on feasibility, sequencing and trade-offs while protecting the intended customer and business outcome.
• Line-manage and coach the Product Manager, strengthening product practices.
• Advise the CTO, CEO and COO on product choices and align Sales, Marketing, Operations and Technology around explicit priorities.

Job description

Vondel Venture Development in Amsterdam is seeking a Head of Product to establish and lead our product discipline. You will own product vision and strategy, translating company objectives into a clear direction and roadmap proposals.

This hands-on leadership role reports to the CTO, manages the Product Manager, and collaborates with the Head of Engineering. You will guide a multidisciplinary team to create value for merchants, partners and shoppers across Europe.