Head of Product Managment

<p>&nbsp;</p> <h3 data-path-to-node="6"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Who We Are</span></h3> <p data-path-to-node="7"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">At Platform Science, we’re working to connect everything that moves. Founded in 2015, we are an open IoT platform that partners with innovative fleets, application developers, vehicle manufacturers, and equipment providers in the transportation industry to deliver revolutionary solutions to supply chain professionals across the globe.</span></p> <p id="p-rc_8d823f07cd413a5e-42" data-path-to-node="8"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Our employees are an engaging, diverse group of people who believe in the power of great ideas. We hire people with different experiences and perspectives to build a company culture that fuels growth through innovation. We value thoughtful actions and empathy for others. We approach challenges with resiliency and creativity, while encouraging transparency because, no matter our backgrounds or responsibilities, we a<span class="citation-122 citation-123 citation-end-123">re one team.</span>&nbsp;</span></p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <h3 data-path-to-node="10"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="citation-120 citation-121 citation-end-121">About the Role</span>&nbsp;</span></h3> <h3 id="p-rc_8d823f07cd413a5e-43" data-path-to-node="10"></h3> <p id="p-rc_8d823f07cd413a5e-44" data-path-to-node="11"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="citation-118 citation-119">We are seeking a strategic, visionary, and people-first <strong>Head of Product Managment</strong></span><span class="citation-118 citation-119 citation-end-119">&nbsp;to lead our European Mobility product organization.</span>&nbsp;</span></p> <p id="p-rc_8d823f07cd413a5e-45" data-path-to-node="12"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><span class="citation-116 citation-117 citation-end-117">Reporting directly to the General Manager of Europe Mobility, you will take full ownership of our p</span><span class="citation-116">roduct strategy, portfolio roadmap, and execution across 8 European countries. In </span><span class="citation-115 citation-116 citation-end-116">this role, strategic vision must be paired with outstanding people leadership. You will manage, mentor, and grow a m</span><span class="citation-115 citation-end-115">ulti-regional team of 16 people (including Senior Product Managers, Product Owners, UI/UX, and Technical Writers), fostering a culture of trust, accountability, continuous coaching, and customer-centric execution. Y</span>ou will oversee and steer a solution portfolio that integrates SaaS platforms, telematics hardware, telco interfaces, and market-specific fleet management capabilities.&nbsp;</span></p> <h3 data-path-to-node="14"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Essential Responsibilities</span></h3> <p data-path-to-node="15"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="15" data-index-in-node="0">Leadership &amp; Team Growth</strong></span></p> <ul data-path-to-node="16"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="16,0,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="16,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">Lead and Inspire:</strong> Build, coach, and retain a high-performing team of Product Managers and Product Owners distributed across multiple European hubs.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="16,1,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="16,1,0" data-index-in-node="0">Culture &amp; Mentorship:</strong> Cultivate a collaborative, psychologically safe, and continuous-learning environment. Guide your team on backlog health, stakeholder alignment, market validation, OKR setting, and customer discovery best practices.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="16,2,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="16,2,0" data-index-in-node="0">Resource &amp; Capacity Management:</strong> Structure teams effectively to ensure optimal allocation across core maintenance, strategic growth initiatives, and regional localization.</span></p> </li> </ul> <p data-path-to-node="17"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="17" data-index-in-node="0">Product &amp; Portfolio Strategy</strong></span></p> <ul data-path-to-node="18"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="18,0,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="18,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">Portfolio Strategy:</strong> Define and execute the multi-year product strategy for Mobility solutions across European markets, aligning product goals with broader business unit growth targets.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="18,1,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="18,1,0" data-index-in-node="0">Roadmap Ownership &amp; Global Influence:</strong> Own the European product roadmap while actively influencing the North American (NA) roadmap for common global products, balancing short-term technical enhancements with long-term technological standards and market opportunities.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="18,2,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="18,2,0" data-index-in-node="0">Lifecycle Governance:</strong> Oversee end-to-end product lifecycles—from market analysis and requirement definition to go-to-market enablement and deprecation.</span></p> </li> </ul> <p data-path-to-node="19"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="19" data-index-in-node="0">Executive Leadership &amp; Commercial Alignment</strong></span></p> <ul data-path-to-node="20"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="20,0,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="20,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">Senior Leadership Team (SLT):</strong> Serve as an active contributor to the executive leadership team running the Europe Mobility business, influencing commercial strategy, operational direction, and regional expansion.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="20,1,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="20,1,0" data-index-in-node="0">Financial Oversight:</strong> Manage the product portfolio budget, monitor product KPIs, forecast revenue impacts, and ensure product financial health.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="20,2,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="20,2,0" data-index-in-node="0">Cross-Functional Alignment:</strong> Partner with Engineering, Go-To-Market (Sales &amp; Marketing), Customer Support, and Operations to ensure complete operational readiness for product releases.</span></p> </li> </ul> <p data-path-to-node="21"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="21" data-index-in-node="0">Market &amp; Customer Focus</strong></span></p> <ul data-path-to-node="22"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="22,0,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="22,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">Customer Voice:</strong> Act as an executive sponsor for key regional customers, partners, and enterprise accounts across Europe, integrating feedback into product decisions.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="22,1,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="22,1,0" data-index-in-node="0">Market Intelligence:</strong> Monitor fleet management, telematics, and logistics technology trends across target countries to anticipate threats and capture market share.</span></p> </li> </ul> <h3 data-path-to-node="24"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Experience &amp; Qualifications</span></h3> <ul data-path-to-node="25"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="25,0,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="25,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">Proven Leadership:</strong> 8+ years in product management with a strong track record of leading, mentoring, and developing teams of Product Managers and Product Owners in a B2B environment.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="25,1,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="25,1,0" data-index-in-node="0">Domain Expertise:</strong> Prior experience in the transportation industry, telematics, fleet management, logistics, mobility software, or multi-layered SaaS/hardware environments is highly required.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="25,2,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="25,2,0" data-index-in-node="0">Strategic &amp; Commercial Acumen:</strong> Proven experience serving on leadership teams, setting multi-country roadmaps, managing product budgets, and driving business metrics/OKRs.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="25,3,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="25,3,0" data-index-in-node="0">Technical Understanding:</strong> Deep understanding of software architecture, SaaS models, web/mobile applications, hardware integration, and telco constraints.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="25,4,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="25,4,0" data-index-in-node="0">Communication:</strong> Exceptional cross-cultural communication, influencing, and relationship-building skills across international cross-functional teams.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="25,5,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="25,5,0" data-index-in-node="0">Travel Requirements:</strong> Willingness and ability to travel to various European office locations and customer sites (~25% of the time).</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="25,6,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="25,6,0" data-index-in-node="0">Education:</strong> Master’s or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or equivalent practical experience.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="25,7,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="25,7,0" data-index-in-node="0">Languages:</strong> Fluency in <strong data-path-to-node="25,7,0" data-index-in-node="22">English</strong> is mandatory. A good understanding of <strong data-path-to-node="25,7,0" data-index-in-node="68">Dutch and/or French</strong> is a strong advantage.</span></p> </li> </ul> <h3 data-path-to-node="27"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Benefits</span></h3> <p data-path-to-node="28"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;">Platform Science offers a comprehensive, market-leading package to regular, full-time employees in Belgium:</span></p> <ul data-path-to-node="29"> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="29,0,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="29,0,0" data-index-in-node="0">Compensation &amp; Mobility:</strong> Competitive salary as per market norms, corporate bonus scheme, and a <strong data-path-to-node="29,0,0" data-index-in-node="95">Company Car</strong> (+ fuel/recharge card).</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="29,1,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="29,1,0" data-index-in-node="0">Time Off:</strong> 20 statutory leave days + 12 ADV days (32 days total) + 1 Global Day of Service.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="29,2,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="29,2,0" data-index-in-node="0">Allowances:</strong> Monthly meal vouchers (€7.50/day), Home Working Allowance, Internet Allowance, and annual Ecocheques (€250).</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="29,3,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="29,3,0" data-index-in-node="0">Insurance &amp; Retirement:</strong> Comprehensive Hospitalization Insurance (DKV), Group/Life Insurance (Baloise), and a company-funded pension contribution.</span></p> </li> <li style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"> <p data-path-to-node="29,4,0"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><strong data-path-to-node="29,4,0" data-index-in-node="0">Professional Value:</strong> High-level international exposure, global roadmap influence (EMEA &amp; NA), deep autonomy to drive end-to-end product strategy, and career growth within an expanding, innovative global organization.</span></p> </li> </ul> <p>&nbsp;</p>