BetterLabs is a Perth-based Venture Studio and venture fund, backed by RAC and built to turn ambitious ideas into scalable businesses.

The Venture Studio brings together entrepreneurs, product leaders and technologists to build recent ventures from the ground up, combining the speed, autonomy and ownership of a startup with the backing, capability and reach of an established organisation.

For this venture, that means you won't be starting with just an idea. You'll have experienced venture-builders around you, an established prototype and customer research, funding, and access to an existing member network numbering in the millions, while still having genuine freedom to shape what the product and venture become.

Help shape an early-stage venture with significant institutional backing that tackles a meaningful road-safety challenge.

- Nine months of customer research have already been completed.
- A mobile app has been designed, built and released to generate early insights.
- 12 months funding pipeline and access to a potential user base numbering in the millions already exists.

This role goes far beyond a typical Product Manager position. You'll enjoy real autonomy over what gets built, how the venture runs, and its future direction, working side by side with a Founding Technical Lead as the core team. What you'll be responsible for...

- Own the product vision, strategy, roadmap and priorities.
- Turn customer research and early product insights into rapid experiments and measurable improvements.
- Understand what will genuinely drive engagement among learner drivers, parents and supervising drivers.
- Work closely with the Founding Technical Lead to make pragmatic product and technology decisions.
- Take ideas from hypothesis through validation, delivery,



measurement and iteration.
- Influence senior stakeholders across the venture studio and participating interstate organisations.
- Bring in specialist capabilities, such as UX/UI, research, or other contractors, when they add value.
- Prepare the product for broader integration, including privacy, cybersecurity and compliance requirements.
- Develop a model that scales across jurisdictions and potentially international markets.
- Help build the venture's culture, ways of working, and decision-making principles from day one.

What you'll bring to the role...

- Your experience as a Product Lead, Head of Product, Senior Product Manager or similar, building digital products in a startup, scale-up, venture or similarly fast-moving environment
- Your track record of taking products from ambiguity and customer discovery through validation and into the market
- Your strong product strategy, experimentation and customer discovery capability
- Your ability to remain hands-on while thinking strategically about where the product and business need to go next
- Your experience building engaging consumer-facing, mobile or high-adoption digital products
- Your commercial and technical literacy and confidence working alongside engineers and designers
- Your ability to make sensible decisions quickly without perfect information




- Your strong senior stakeholder management skills and patience in navigating larger organisations
- Your instinct for simple, engaging customer experiences rather than unnecessary product complexity
- Your confidence in taking ownership, challenging assumptions and being accountable for the outcome

If you've founded or run your own business or venture, your experience is especially valuable. We want people who know what it truly takes to build something, including the lessons learned from what didn't work and the wisdom gained from every decision. This is perfect for someone ready to move beyond managing someone else's roadmap and eager to help create a venture from the ground up.

The engagement is an initial 12-month fixed-term based in Perth, with hybrid flexibility and some interstate travel. While the future beyond the funded period is open, the ambition for the initiative is significant, with interest from new markets and the potential for the role to grow into broader venture leadership as it scales.

At Valrose – We listen. We understand. We solve.

Our Values -Humanity – Success – Integrity – Accountability – Curiosity

Diversity – Welcome it. Entrust it. Celebrate it.

- 2024 – Sourcr Award for Best Agency for ICT, WA
- 2023 – Seek SARA Award Finalist for Outstanding Agency
- 2023 – RCSA Award Finalist for Outstanding Agency
- 2022 – Sourcr Award for Best Agency for Technology, WA
- 2021 – Seek SARA Award Finalist for Excellence in Candidate Engagement

Contact the Valrose team for a confidential discussion about the role, environment and selection process. Valrose is a Circle Back Initiative Recruitment Agency — we commit to responding to every applicant.

📌 Founding Product Lead (Perth)
🏢 Valrose
📍 Perth