Head of Product | CPO @ VC backed company

Description

🎯 Roadmap · Discovery · Delivery · PM team

ℹ️ This is not a job posting for one specific company. XAnge is a VC firm: we keep a curated pool of senior profiles and introduce them to our portfolio startups when the right role opens up. This page describes what a Head of Product / CPO role typically looks like across our portfolio.

Work at an XAnge portfolio startup

You would join one of XAnge’s 80+ portfolio companies: fast-growing European tech startups building meaningful products across B2B SaaS, Healthtech, Fintech, Climatetech and beyond. These are scale-ups where the product is the growth engine, with small, ambitious teams where ownership is real, decisions are fast, and your impact is visible from day one. Every company in the pool is backed by XAnge (Siparex Group) and surrounded by a community of 80+ founders and operators to lean on.

The team and why we need you

As Head of Product / CPO, you typically join a founder-led company that needs to move from founder-led product intuition to a structured, outcome-driven product organization. You might be the first senior product hire or step in to scale an existing PM team. You own product strategy and execution, report directly to the CEO/founders, and partner closely with Engineering, Design and the GTM teams.

Why we need you: building the right things, in the right order, with limited resources is the challenge.

Your goals as Head of Product / CPO

Your mission is to turn strategy into a product that drives measurable outcomes. Typically, you will:

• Own the product vision and roadmap, aligned with company strategy and OKRs.
• Install strong discovery and delivery practices (user research, JTBD, opportunity solution trees, agile delivery).
• Drive data-driven prioritization (OKRs, A/B testing, funnel analysis) and measurable product outcomes.
• Recruit, structure and grow the PM team, from first PM to a structured org.

Profile

Who we’re looking for

We care about track record and mindset, not pedigree. 10+ years is a guideline, not a hard rule: exceptional profiles below that threshold are welcome.

Preferred experience: 10+ years in product management with several leading a product team (Seed to Series B+), having owned a full roadmap in lean, agile environments.

• Hard skills: product discovery (user interviews, Jobs-to-be-Done, opportunity solution trees); data-driven prioritization (OKRs, A/B testing, funnel analysis, Amplitude, Mixpanel); tooling (Jira, Linear, Notion, Figma); solid grasp of technical constraints.
• Soft skills: user-centric mindset; close collaboration with Engineering and Design; clear communication and influence; leadership; comfortable with ambiguity.

💡 Also relevant: CPO, VP Product, Chief Product Officer, Product Lead

Recruitment process

How it works

• Submit your profile (a few minutes). We review on a rolling basis.
• If it matches our criteria, you enter our curated talent pool, visible to founders across the portfolio, and standout profiles get featured in our Slack community and newsletter.
• When a relevant role opens, we introduce you directly to the founders and support the process from there.

🚀 Interested in a Head of Product / CPO role at an XAnge portfolio company? Submit your profile here

Company

XAnge is a leading European VC firm based in Paris and Munich. XAnge invests in innovative technology companies operating in healthtech, enterprise data, fintech, Saas & deeptech. Among our portfolio can be mentioned: Odoo (ERP Software), Believe Digital (entertainment) or Ledger (cryptocurrencies).

Within XAnge, the Startup Success Team designs programs and resources to help Founders or Key executives in their daily challenges, such as recruiting for highly technical and key positions.

Joining XAnge’s network means getting access to +300 open positions located throughout France and abroad! (Toulouse, Bordeaux, Rennes, New York, Ibiza etc.). For more information, all our offers are published in real time here.

Why should you apply via XAnge?

• Get access to a pool of growing and high-potential scale-ups in Europe: Most of our startups get +100% growth every year, 4 of them are in the Next40 and 1 in FT120 .
• Be the first to know about opportunities: As investors, we are the first to know when key executive roles are opening such as Head of growth and marketing, Chief Marketing Officer, Marketing Manager, Head of Inbound Marketing, etc.., and work alongside our C-levels to identify the ideal profiles.
• Get access to off-market opportunities: With + 300 open positions in France and abroad, we can share with our pool of talents off-market opportunities that are not available anywhere else.