Head of Product

The opportunity to accelerate product development across two products for a client that builds digital products for public‑sector construction procurement. Both products are in scope: a marketplace/matching platform, and an end‑to‑end contract management platform.

The engagement involves resetting the operating model and lifting pace: weekly releases by default, discovery ahead of delivery, rapid AI‑assisted prototyping, and turning a deep construction dataset into insight‑led product features.

Delivery runs as two autonomous product squads on a shared spine and they need a strong product leader to bridge the two.

• Single owner of product across both squads, holding day‑to‑day decision authority on prioritisation and execution within the client’s strategy and guardrails.
• Run discovery properly: frame the problem, test hypotheses, bring evidence, and keep discovery ahead of delivery. Validate with customers before building.
• Make the trade‑offs and hold the line – if everything is a priority, nothing is.

• Senior product leadership (Head of Product / Principal PM) on B2B SaaS or platform products.
• Genuinely modern, AI‑enabled practice: comfortable in a fast, agentic, AI‑assisted delivery environment and using AI tooling for rapid prototyping.
• Strong, evidence‑led discovery and prioritisation; a decisive single‑owner operator, not a committee.
• Track record of high‑cadence delivery (roughly weekly releases, small batches, ownership of outcomes).
• Data‑literate: turns product and business questions into insight and into product features, not just dashboards.
• Confident embedded client‑side as a standalone owner, and coaching an internal successor.

• Marketplace / two‑sided platform, and/or contract‑management or workflow products.