About Sortlist
At Sortlist, we’re revolutionizing how companies find and hire expert teams. If you're an experienced product leader who thrives in leading teams, driving strategic decision-making, and delivering hands-on product management, this is your chance to make a real impact.
Mission
The Head of Product will drive product strategy and execution to achieve our ambitious growth, customer satisfaction, and market share goals. You’ll lead the Product and Design teams while collaborating closely with engineering to deliver innovative digital solutions. This role combines strategic leadership with hands-on product management, ensuring product decisions are grounded in user insights and performance data.
You will initially focus on hands-on product management to master our tools, processes, and goals, while working closely with cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features. After an onboarding period of 3-6 months, your scope will expand to include strategic responsibilities.
Ultimately, you’ll lead Sortlist’s mission to create the best digital tendering platform, building a high-performing team and shaping the future of our products.
Why You'll Love Being Part of Sortlist
At Sortlist, we offer more than just a job - we offer an opportunity to lead, create, and make a real impact. Here’s what makes this role unique:
- Build and Innovate in a Scale-Up Environment: With the flexibility and resources to envision and create the future of our platform, you’ll have the freedom to design impactful products that drive company growth. Balancing exciting feature development with financial results, your decisions will have measurable value and contribute directly to our journey towards profitability.
- Shape Strategy: As a Head of Product, you’ll play a key role in shaping company-wide strategies, aligning product innovation with financial goals.
- Collaborate with a High-Performing Team: Work alongside a team of talented, senior professionals who combine deep expertise with autonomy. Their knowledge and independence make management smoother and collaboration dynamic.
- Flexible Collaboration in a Shared Culture: Our entire team is based in Belgium, which fosters a shared culture and seamless collaboration. We offer a flexible hybrid model: three days in the office (ideally in Wavre) and two days working from home.
Key Outcomes
In this dual role as both a product leader and an operational product manager, you will:
- Drive Product Strategy: Define, execute, and communicate a strategy aligned with business goals, market trends, and customer needs to deliver products that delight buyers and drive high-quality engagement.
- Boost Revenue: Enable buyers to collaborate seamlessly and make informed decisions directly on the platform and increase GMV by transitioning to a commission-based revenue model.
- Lead Product Development: Collaborate actively with designers, developers, and cross-functional teams to deliver impactful features.
- Inspire and Develop the Team: Lead and mentor a talented group of designers and product managers, fostering their growth and maintaining high performance standards while fostering a culture of experimentation and continuous improvement.
- Analyze & Optimize: Leverage analytics and KPIs to refine products, identify growth opportunities, and ensure data-driven decisions that drive user engagement, revenue, and profitability.
- Communicate Vision: Present product strategies and updates clearly to internal teams, stakeholders, and leadership, ensuring alignment across the organization.
- Foster Collaboration: Partner with sales, marketing, and support teams to align go-to-market strategies and product development, ensuring a cohesive approach.
The Expertise We Value
- Proven experience in product management, ideally in tech companies, startups, or B2B, to ensure you're equipped to navigate fast-paced environments and deliver impactful software solutions.
- Strong ability to lead and inspire cross-functional teams, fostering collaboration to drive results and align teams with the company’s vision.
- Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to prioritize effectively and turn complex data into actionable product strategies that drive user engagement, revenue growth, and business impact.
- Hands-on experience balancing product vision with execution, enabling you to deliver features that meet user needs and business objectives.
- Clear and effective communicator who can align internal stakeholders and present strategies to diverse audiences.
- Effectively apply prioritization skills to evaluate competing demands and focus on initiatives that provide the greatest value to users and the business.
- Handle constructive feedback with professionalism and provide thoughtful guidance to team members, fostering trust and continuous improvement.
- Fluent in English and French to collaborate effectively in our multilingual environment.
If this sounds like you let’s talk:
If you see yourself in most of these skills and experiences, we’d love to hear from you! Please apply using the apply-button. Let’s start the conversation about how you can make an impact at Sortlist.
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Last updated on Jan 10, 2025