Head of Product - Core Journeys
€95k - €100k/yr
Senior, Expert
Remote in Spain
HybridRemote work is available in Spain, South Africa, and Portugal; Brazil is listed without a remote designation.
ProductProduct Management
About the job
Requirements
- At least eight years of experience in product, including at least five years leading people.
- Proven experience leading product managers in a business-to-business software-as-a-service 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.
- Experience 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.
Responsibilities
- Own the end-to-end platform experience across the core client journey, including transitions between platform areas.
- Identify where the experience is failing clients and set the plan to correct it.
- Own regulatory and compliance obligations as product requirements, working with legal, tax, and in-country teams so they are designed in rather than retrofitted.
- Translate platform strategy and commercial priorities into a prioritised order of work for the area.
- Feed prioritisation into the single prioritised roadmap owned by the Senior Vice President of Product.
- Recommend what is built, deferred, or retired within the area, and secure agreement with the Senior Vice President of Product and Directors of Product.
- Build the case for significant investment, including expected value, payback, and trade-offs against alternatives.
- Work with Directors of Product to sequence commercial priorities in a way the platform can deliver.
- Hold accountability for delivery against commitments, on time and to the quality bar set in the definition of done.
- Work with engineering and design leadership from idea shaping through release to make trade-offs among client need, technical feasibility, and cost.
- Work with sales, marketing, customer success, finance, and legal so that delivered products are understood, sellable, supportable, and compliant at launch.
- Identify and resolve delivery risk early, including teams that are blocked, unclear, or behind.
- Manage dependencies within the area and across connected experience areas.
- Build relationships with clients and internal teams to sustain understanding of customer and internal pain points and related opportunities.
- Ground product decisions in client insight, usage data, and market evidence.
- Raise the standard of discovery and validation across the teams.
- Define the expected outcome for each investment and own the value delivered against it.
- Own platform net promoter score 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 supports winning and retaining clients.
- Line-manage the product managers within the area.
- Set clear expectations, give direct feedback, and address performance issues early.
- Work with each product manager to understand individual development needs and coach them to grow their capability.
- Drive artificial intelligence adoption where it creates the best outcome and help the product team keep pace with changes in the product role.
Desired Qualifications
- Knowledge of the human resources industry.
About the company
Safeguard Global provides adaptive solutions that help organizations manage a global workforce. It combines workforce management data, technology, services and local market expertise to support global employee management activities such as recruitment, payroll, onboarding, expense management and more. How it works: the platform integrates data and technology with advisory services and country-specific know-how to streamline and automate global human resources operations, from hiring across borders to paying employees and handling expenses. How it differs from competitors: it blends data-driven insights, scalable technology, outsourced services and deep local market knowledge to tailor cross-border HR and payroll processes to each country, aiming for consistent, compliant and efficient operations. The company's goal: help organizations thrive in the global economy by making global workforce management smarter and more efficient.
Company Size
1,001-5,000
Company Stage
Debt Financing
Total Funding
$6M
Headquarters
Austin, Texas
Founded
2008
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- Intelligent Workforce launched April 9, 2026, accelerating top-of-funnel demand for EOR deals.
- NelsonHall's 2026 NEAT named Safeguard Global a leader in overall and mid-market EOR.
- Safeguard Global reported 78% of CFOs lost up to $1M from noncompliance, sharpening urgency.
What critics are saying
- Deel now runs Safeguard Global's enterprise payroll, weakening differentiation and margin control.
- Gary Wiese became CRO on August 17, 2026, signaling commercial pressure after the payroll sale.
- Failing to convert AI-led demand into SMB and midmarket contracts risks strategic drift.
What makes Safeguard Global unique
- Safeguard Global combines EOR, recruiting, benefits, tax, and contractor management.
- Its Intelligent Workforce tool compares 187 countries using live data and 400 experts.
- The company owns a white-glove model with in-country specialists across 78 countries.
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Benefits
- Remote Work Options
- Flexible Work Hours
- Parental Leave
- Performance Bonus
- Professional Development Budget