Lead Product Owner

Summary

Join Employment Hero as a Lead Product Owner and lead a team of 2-3 Product Owners. You will drive product strategy, mentor your team, and collaborate with cross-functional teams across various domains like HR, Payroll, and Recruitment. This role requires strong leadership, product ownership, and communication skills. Employment Hero offers remote work flexibility, cutting-edge tools, and various benefits including generous parental leave, subsidized egg freezing, and learning and development opportunities. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of product experience, including at least 1 year in a senior leadership role, and a strong analytical background. Experience with big data or platform-scale products is a plus.

Requirements

• Undergraduate qualifications in Business Systems, IT, Engineering, or a quantitative discipline (eg, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics) preferred
• 4+ years of product experience, including at least 1 year in a senior/leadership Product Owner or equivalent role
• Proven experience coaching or leading others in an agile product development environment
• Strong analytical and prioritisation skills, using data and insights to drive decision-making
• Confidence navigating ambiguity, solving complex problems, and influencing without authority
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills – you’re a natural storyteller and connector

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of Product Owners to ensure high-quality delivery and career growth
• Support your team in refining their backlogs, stakeholder engagement, and agile practices
• Foster a collaborative and high-performing product culture grounded in user-centric thinking and delivery excellence
• Partner with Product Managers to align team efforts to overarching product strategy and OKRs
• Drive the end-to-end delivery of strategic product initiatives from concept to launch and continuous improvement
• Collaborate on the development of product vision and roadmap in your domain, adapting to constraints without losing sight of long-term goals
• Identify opportunities for optimisation and growth based on business priorities, competitor analysis, customer research and performance data
• Break down complex problems using structured thinking and frameworks
• Undertake product discovery, synthesising customer feedback, defining clear KPIs, and validating solutions through a hypothesis-driven approach. Translates insights into a coherent, data-informed roadmap
• Ensure your team’s backlogs are well-groomed, prioritised, and aligned with cross-functional goals
• Balance customer needs, business objectives, and technical constraints
• Champion data-driven decision-making to support roadmap prioritisation and product iteration
• Work with Product Designers to ensure we deliver best-in-class, user-friendly experiences
• Collaborate closely with Engineers, Architects, and QA to ensure solution feasibility, technical alignment, and quality delivery
• Support cross-functional collaboration with Sales, Marketing, Support, and Professional Services to ensure successful product launches and adoption
• Be a trusted voice of the customer, clearly articulating needs and priorities to diverse stakeholders
• Share regular updates with stakeholders at all levels, including presenting at leadership meetings and company-wide forums
• Create clarity for your team and stakeholders by translating complex ideas into actionable plans

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working cross-functionally in fast-paced, agile SaaS businesses would be an advantage
• Bonus points for experience working with big data or platform-scale products

Benefits

• You will work remotely, with the flexibility to own your time and impact
• You will access cutting-edge tools to amplify your work, knowledge and outputs
• You’ll surround yourself with ambitious, outcome-driven colleagues who challenge you to do the best work of your life
• You’ll own ESOP (employee share options) in one of the world’s fastest-growing tech companies
• A very generous paternity leave policy
• Subsidised egg freezing
• A WFH office expense budget
• Outstanding learning & development opportunities