You'll be the dedicated people manager for all Product Owners
responsible for whether they grow, stay, and get better at their craft
You won't set product priorities or decide what any PO works on
You'll own the things that actually determine whether a PO function scales well: career development, hiring, coaching, team health, and the community that makes the whole function stronger over time
The role requires ability to travel across EU
Line management of all POs
1:1s, performance conversations, and compensation reviews done with both clarity and care
Career development for every PO
levelling, individual development plans, and an honest path forward (not just a template)
Team health
engagement, conflict resolution, retention, and catching burnout before it becomes a problem
Hiring and onboarding end-to-end
from role definition through to final hire decision
Capacity allocation in partnership with product leadership
balancing where people are needed against where they need to grow
A real PO community with rituals people actually value
peer learning, retrospectives that improve how the function works, not just how people feel about it
Define and keep alive the career ladder and competency framework, and use it consistently
Coaching on the skills that don't appear in a backlog: stakeholder management, influence without authority, executive presence, and communication that lands.

5+ years managing product people directly
POs, PMs, BAs, or similar
with a track record of growing people into more senior roles
A background as a PO or PM yourself
Comfort with hard performance conversations
empathy and clarity together, not one at the expense of the other
Experience in a matrix structure where you influence without controlling everything that affects your team
Strong written communication
frameworks, reviews, and internal docs that work without you in the room to explain them
Fluent English
You’ve built a career ladder or competency framework from scratch, not inherited one
You’ve worked alongside a strong product leader where accountability was clear
you drove people growth, they drove product direction
and that clarity made both of you more effective
Experience in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, or regulated industries
You’ve managed through scaling or restructuring and kept the people worth keeping.

Lead Product Owner, HealthTech

Key skills