Head of Product

Head of Product

Student Crowd | Remote (UK) | Full Time, Permanent

Student Crowd is the leading data and decision‑making platform for student accommodation in the UK. Our platform has supported more than 14 million students, and our data and insight products serve accommodation operators, investors, universities and advisors across the UK, with expansion underway into Europe and the US.

We are a product‑led, cross‑functional company. Our shared product and engineering backbone delivers both a consumer student platform and commercial data and insight products. We are currently completing a growth investment round to accelerate product development and international expansion.

We are hiring a hands‑on Head of Product to shape how product works at Student Crowd as we scale.

This is not a backfill. We have never had a dedicated senior product professional in the company. Our CTO has been leading product strategy alongside technical responsibilities. As we grow from one squad to three by the end of 2026, we need someone who can work with the CTO to build a product function from the ground up: the processes, the rituals, the documentation, the decision‑making frameworks, and the culture of product thinking across the organisation.

You will report directly to the CTO and manage our current Product Owner from day one. Your primary focus will be the B2B data and insight products, while your direct report continues to own the B2C student platform under your guidance and oversight.

For the right person, this role has a clear and concrete pathway to VP Product as the team and company scale.

Product roadmap within our OKR framework. Product decisions at Student Crowd are made through OKR teams. These cross‑functional teams define the outcomes we are pursuing and collaboratively shape the work, including product and feature level work, needed to deliver them.

Your job is to be the connective tissue across that system: partnering with OKR teams, keeping the roadmap across the student platform and data/insight products coherent, and working with the executive team and founders on longer‑term direction. Where trade‑offs need resolving across teams, you will facilitate those decisions with an eye on customer value, commercial impact, and technical feasibility.

Team leadership. You will line‑manage our current Product Owner from day one, supporting their development and ensuring effective delivery. As the company scales, you will grow and shape the product function, including hiring additional POs. You will foster a culture of ownership, experimentation, and evidence‑based decision making.

Delivery across multiple teams. You will work directly with engineering squads on discovery, refinement, sprint planning, and delivery. As we grow from one squad to three, you will manage dependencies and prioritisation across teams, enabling fast and clear decision making without micromanagement.

Product operations. You will use Jira and Confluence to manage backlogs, roadmaps, and discovery work. You will make product strategy, priorities, and decisions accessible and discoverable across the company. You will reduce reliance on tribal knowledge through strong product ops practices.

Stakeholder collaboration. You will partner with commercial, client success, and leadership teams to ensure products meet customer needs and support revenue growth. You will represent the product function in leadership meetings and work across functions to keep product direction and company strategy in step, not just within the delivery team.

• Product experience. You have significant experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager in a SaaS or product‑centric technology business, and you are now a year or two into a Head of Product (or equivalent) role. You have shipped products that delivered measurable business outcomes and can point to specific examples of how your work moved the needle.
• People management. You have some formal line‑management experience and are ready to grow a product function. You do not need five years at Head level, but you should already be managing or coaching…