What if you could take your product experience and use it to shape products that genuinely become part of people’s everyday lives? We’re working with a rapid-growing, founder-led Australian consumer business that has built a strong reputation for beautifully designed, thoughtfully engineered products, and is now entering an exciting recent phase of growth.

As Head of Product, you’ll have the opportunity to shape what comes next.

This is not a role where you inherit a range and simply manage a calendar.

You’ll help decide what gets made, why it matters, how it should look and perform, and ultimately whether customers love it.

Reporting directly to the CEO, you’ll take ownership of the end-to-end product function, from customer insight and category strategy through to product development, sourcing, launch and lifecycle management.

You’ll work closely with the founders and leadership team to identify opportunities, develop the product roadmap and turn customer needs into commercially compelling products.

Your remit will include

- Developing and owning the product strategy and roadmap
- Using customer insight, market trends and commercial data to identify new opportunities
- Leading range architecture, category strategy and product lifecycle
- Driving end-to-end NPD, from concept through to launch
- Working closely with offshore suppliers, factories and manufacturing partners
- Managing product costings, margins,



pricing and commercial viability
- Negotiating with suppliers and managing product development timelines
- Ensuring products meet quality, safety and regulatory requirements
- Partnering with Marketing, Digital, Ecommerce, Operations and Supply Chain to bring products to market
- Continually reviewing the range and identifying opportunities to improve, expand or rationalise
- Building the capability, processes and team required to support the next stage of growth

You’re a commercial product leader, rather than someone who simply manages product administration. You might have come through buying, category management or product development within private label products

- Consumer products / hardgoods
- Product development and NPD
- Private label or own-brand environments
- Offshore sourcing and manufacturing
- Supplier and factory management
- Range architecture and category strategy
- Costing, margin and pricing
- Product compliance and quality
- Customer and market insight
- Commercial analysis and P&L; thinking

You’ll join an entrepreneurial business where product is at the heart of the growth strategy — and where the leadership team genuinely wants someone to challenge the status quo, bring new ideas and build something exceptional.

You’ll have the autonomy to shape the function, influence the product roadmap and build the capability around you.

📌 Head of Product (Melbourne)
🏢 JIVARO recruitment
📍 Melbourne