As Head of Physical Products & IoT you'll lead our entire physical product stack: towers, turnstiles, mobile nodes, fleet management systems, and back-end support applications. This means P&L ownership, building product life cycle processes from scratch, and coaching a team of 7+ Product Owners and Product Specialists to think more commercially, help them prioritize, and move faster.
You'll work closely alongside the Head of Digital Products & Customer Experience, who leads customer-facing software solutions. Together you'll ensure our physical and digital products work seamlessly to deliver on our site intelligence vision. This isn't a maintenance role. We're scaling hard and need someone who can handle the chaos, help to build the right structure without slowing us down, and make the team better.
What you’ll do
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Implement & manage the product P&Ls. Business cases, revenue targets, product margins in collaboration with the Group Pricing Manager - the full commercial picture.
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Build product lifecycle management processes that actually work at scale. Discovery, development, launch, optimization, end-of-life.
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Coach a team of Product Owners & specialists. Make them better at commercial thinking, prioritization, and shipping. Develop future leaders (currently 8 individuals).
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Set product strategy for hardware, embedded systems, and internal software that keeps our fleet running. Balance innovation with what customers need & sustaining engineering.
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Partner with the Head of Digital Products & Customer Experience to ensure physical and digital products integrate seamlessly and deliver the full customer experience.
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Drive new (physical) product launches across 11 countries. Work with Product Marketing, Sales, Ops, and Engineering to get products to market and make them successful.
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Push the team on modern practices. AI tools, improve & implement processes, creative problem-solving. Question how we do things and make it better.
Requirements:
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8+ years in product, with 5+ years leading teams. Hardware, IoT, or embedded systems experience required.
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You've run Product P&Ls before. You know how to make money, not just ship features.
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High-growth experience. You've been through 30%+ annual growth, you know how to scale despite things breaking all the time
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You're a coach, not a micromanager. You make people better and they want to work with you. You go deep, when needed, to ensure output quality
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You understand hardware reality - supply chains, manufacturing constraints, field deployment. You can talk to engineers and translate it to business value.
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You work well with peer leaders. You'll partner closely with the Head of Digital Products to create cohesive experiences across hardware and software.
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Positive energy. You get excited about hard problems. Teams follow you and go the extra mile because they want to, not because they have to.
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Fluent in English (C1/C2-level), additional languages are a plus. You'll be working across countries and need to communicate clearly.
What matters:
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Bias for action over perfect plans
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Commercial instinct - knowing what will actually make money
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Building for scale, not just today
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Making your team better, not just getting your own work done
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Comfort with ambiguity and changing fast when needed
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Willing to work - it’s a full-time role
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Real impact. Construction sites are dangerous. We're building the intelligence to prevent incidents before they happen - both security and safety.
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You'll shape how we scale. Not many people get to build product processes for a company growing this fast.
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Leadership opportunity with full ownership. Product P&Ls, team, strategy.
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Smart, driven people who care about getting things done.
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Fast-paced environment where every day is different.
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One-year contract, then extension with indefinite
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Competitive salary + bonus
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25 vacation days (option to buy more)
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Everything you need to be successful incl. Laptop, mobile, car, pension plan
BauWatch is Europe's #1 in temporary security solutions, growing 30% YoY. We're in 11 countries, 44,000+ projects completed, and we're moving fast.
Our vision: “Zero incidence, faster delivery - through connected site intelligence that protects by design.”
We combine ruggedized monitoring towers, sensors, access control solutions, intelligent edge devices, fleet management, and 24/7 remote monitoring into a connected system. Construction and temporary sites are among the most dangerous work environments - we're building the intelligence to catch security and safety threats before they become incidents.
If so please Apply with a cv and a salary expectation.
For questions or more information contact Ruud Licht, Group Recruitment Officer at +31 6 20172020.
