Head of Product, Core Journeys

About Safeguard Global: We enable global expansion without the risk.

Safeguard Global has been at the forefront of global workforce enablement since we pioneered centralised global payments in 2008 and launched the employer of record (EOR) category globally in 2010. And we haven't stopped there.

Today, with our 500+ in-country HR experts, cutting-edge technology, and comprehensive solutions, we've helped over 2,000 organisations hire, recruit, pay, and manage employees in 170+ countries.

Because we created this category, we've learned that successful global expansion isn't driven by technology alone. It requires deep global expertise. We call this the marriage of expert and technology, human when it matters.

This means we have the people and the technology to ensure 100% compliance with local, regional, national, and international laws. Together, this ethos and our solutions portfolio allow businesses to scale up or down wherever, however, and whenever they want to expand, without the risk.

Overview of the role

We're looking for a Head of Product, Core Journeys to lead the platform experience across our core client journey, from hiring a worker through to invoicing for them.

The role is accountable for the platform experience, delivery, and outcome achievement across the core transactional workflows . You'll translate that target experience, combined with the product strategies set by the Directors of Product into a prioritised order of work ; lead ing the product managers who deliver it and ensuring we deliver on business and customer experience objectives.

What you will be responsible for

Platform experience

Own the end-to-end platform experience across the core client journey, including the transitions between one part of the platform and the next

Identify where the experience is failing clients and set the plan to correct it

Own regulatory and compliance obligations as product requirements within your area, working with legal, tax, and the in-country teams so that they are designed in rather than retrofitted

Prioritisation and roadmap

Translate the platform strategy and commercial priorities into a prioritised order of work for your area

Feed that prioritisation into the single prioritised roadmap owned by the SVP, Product

Recommend what is built, what is deferred, and what is retired within your area, and secure agreement with the SVP, Product and the Directors of Product

Build the case for significant investment, including the value expected, the payback, and the trade-off against the alternatives

Work with the Directors of Product to sequence commercial priorities in a way the platform can deliver

Delivery

Hold accountability for delivery against commitment, on time and to the quality bar set in the definition of done

Work hand in hand with engineering and design leadership, from the earliest shaping of an idea through to release, so that trade-offs between client need, technical feasibility, and cost are made together

Work with sales, marketing, customer success, finance, and legal so that what we build is understood, sellable, supportable, and compliant on the day it launches

Identify and resolve delivery risk early, including teams that are blocked, unclear, or behind

Manage dependencies within your area and into the connected experience areas

Customer insight and product performance

Build the relationships, with clients and with internal teams, that sustain a continuous understanding of customer and internal pain points, and of the opportunities they point to

Ground product decisions in client insight, usage data, and market evidence

Raise the standard of discovery and validation across your teams

Define the expected outcome for each investment and own the value delivered against it

Own platform NPS and adoption for the core journey, and act on the results

Act as the product expert in senior client and prospect conversations, and represent the platform externally where it helps us win and keep clients

Team leadership

Line manage the product managers within your area

Set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and address performance issues early

Work with each product manager to understand their individual development needs, and take a coaching approach to growing their capability

Drive AI adoption where it creates the best outcome, recognising that it serves some tasks well and others poorly, and help the product team keep pace with how the role of product is rapidly changing

What will give you an advantage

Eight or more years in product, including at least five leading people

Proven experience leading product managers in a B2B SaaS or platform business, ideally where several teams contribute to a single client experience

Experience owning a multi-team product area end to end, with accountability for both delivery and the value delivered

A record of defining the expected value of an investment up front and evidencing what was realised

Knowledge of the HR industry is preferred but not critical

Experience of building products in a regulated environment, where compliance shapes what can be built

Enough technical depth to hold a credible conversation with engineering leadership on architecture, platform scalability, and data

A demonstrable record of developing product managers

Experience leading globally distributed teams across multiple countries and time zones

Primary performance metrics

Delivery: commitments delivered on time and to quality

Business impact: value delivered against the outcomes committed at the point of investment

Experience: platform NPS

Adoption: adoption of the core journey, from hiring to invoicing

Baselines and annual targets are set with the SVP, Product at the start of each financial year.

Competencies

Product judgement: makes clear recommendations on scope, sequencing, and trade-offs that hold up over time

Strategic thinking: sets a direction for the platform that connects client need, market direction, and commercial goals

Systems thinking: designs the journey around what matters most to the customer, and focuses only on the work that delivers value

Delivery leadership: maintains a predictability and quality bar across multiple teams without becoming a bottleneck

Communication: strong written and verbal communicator at all levels of the organisation, from SLT to team

People development: understands what each individual needs and coaches them to grow

Influencing: aligns commercial, engineering, and design leadership around a single sequence of work without direct authority

Commercial judgement: determines what is worth building next, and evidences the case

Key personal attributes

Grit and determination: moves work forward despite obstacles, and does not give up easily

Curiosity: actively seeks out different points of view, customer needs, and the problems worth solving

A leader and a doer: operates strategically while staying close to the detail

Warm, open, honest, and fun to work with

We are hiring this position across multiple countries; compensation varies by hiring location. For target markets located within the European Union (EU), base salaries start from (Gross ):

Spain: €100,000.00

Portugal: €95,000.00

Who we are and what we do:

Safeguard Global is…Global! We help 1500+ companies hire, manage, and pay employees in 170+ countries. Join us to meet diverse talent, explore new cultures, and connect with amazing folks from around the globe. ✈️

Our Global Benefits

• •👨 ‍💻 Autonomy & Flexibility (Work in Any Way): Remote first, with the flexibility to include school runs and gym breaks in your schedule all while maintaining a high standard of work.
• •🧑 ‍🍼 Bonding Leave: Enjoy paid leave to bond with your new family member.
• •🎁 2 Charitable Days: Contribute to causes you believe in.
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