Head of Product

**Do we have your attention?**:
As **Head of Product Watches & Jewelry**you will be responsible for shaping and overseeing Holzkern’s entire product journey — from the first spark of an idea to successful market performance.

You will lead the strategy, design, and development of our watches, jewelry, and accessories — aligning every decision with customer needs, data insights, and our brand promise of “Naturally Unique.” You’ll bring together creativity and structure, design and data, vision and execution.

This role is about more than just launches: It’s about building a high-performing, high-quality portfolio that delivers economics, emotion, and lasting value — across all touchpoints and departments.

**Your areas of responsibility**:
**Product Strategy & Portfolio Ownership**:

- Define and evolve a clear product vision aligned with Holzkern’s long-term goals and customer needs
- Manage a structured roadmap and ensure a balanced portfolio mix — driven by incrementality, market potential, and brand fit
- Phase out low performers and sharpen category positioning using a data-backed portfolio logic

**Product Development & Process Leadership**:

- Own the end-to-end product development process: trend scouting, prototyping, supplier alignment, launch execution
- Act as process owner across design, development, procurement and production — ensuring feasibility, scalability, and alignment

**Design & Brand Expression**:

- Lead the product design team to craft iconic pieces that embody our natural, emotional, and premium brand identity
- Balance aesthetics, functionality, material innovation, and manufacturability and ensure strong integration of storytelling and uniqueness in every design decision

**Data-Driven Product Management**:

- Implement structured decision-making tools based on product performance, feedback, cannibalization, margins, and lifecycle stages
- Partner with Finance to sharpen forecasting, pricing, and product profitability

**Marketing & Launch Readiness**:

- Collaborate closely with Marketing&Sales on marketability and strategy of products and launches
- Ensure clear product communication: from launch story to material facts, from PDP specs to in-store product knowledge

***Quality Collaboration**:

- Work hand-in-hand with Quality, Procurement, and Logistics to elevate product standards and post-launch satisfaction
- Drive feedback loops on product flaws, returns, and reclamations — with a focus on prevention, not firefighting

**Team Leadership & Culture**:

- Lead and coach your team of Product Managers and Designers, fostering ownership, excellence, and innovation
- Set clear OKRs and project priorities based on revenue, strategic fit, and execution speed

**Your profile**:

- 3-5 years in a leadership product role (e.g. Head of Product, Category Lead, etc.) in watches/jewelry, fashion, or lifestyle brands
- Strong strategic and analytical mindset, with deep product sensibility and commercial understanding
Experience managing physical products across multiple categories and lifecycles
- Hands-on leadership experience: you bring vision, process, and structure into play — and drive outcomes with your team
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills across departments and external partners
- Fluent in English, German would be beneficial
- Strong Excel and tool literacy (e.g.project management tools)

**Enjoy our benefits**:

- ** Exciting Tasks & Personal Growth**: Trust is always first for us at Holzkern, which is why we give you big and exciting projects from the start, so you can quickly unfold your potential. This will give you the opportunity to grow and learn super quickly.
- Attractive **flexitime work model**with **home office** option.
- Two legendary **annual** **company events**with the whole #TeamHolzkern - all inclusive
- Regular **team events**with your team throughout the year.
- State of the art technical equipment (**MacBook**).
- Generous **employee discounts**for you and your loved ones.
- ** Extensive Onboarding**:From day 1 on you will have a buddy who will show you everything you need to know and be there for you should you encounter problems. Your colleagues will teach you everything specific to Holzkern that you need to succeed in your new job.
- ** Fresh fruits, coffee, tea**, milk** (also vegan and lactose free) in the office on site.
- Healthy and balanced meals from **Schrankerl**. Holzkern pays 20% of each meal.

These and many other exciting benefits will await you at Holzkern.
But most of all, you can expect a secure job, good vibes, teamwork, appreciation and trust - **YOU** are important to us

**Hard Facts**:

- ** Starting** **date of Employment**: right away
- ** Working Hours**: 38,5h/week
- ** Working Location**: Holzkern Headquarters, Autokaderstraße 33, 1210 Wien & remote
- ** Salary**: The salary for this position is between € 58.000-€ 65.000 gross per year. Your actual wage depends on your professional experience and qualifications.