SaaS Product Lead Role - Own Roadmap & Revenue Growth in Columbus
Career & Market Insight
This role is essentially a "General Manager in a box" for a newly acquired SaaS product — a rare opportunity to own P&L-adjacent outcomes (conversion, activation, expansion) without co-founding risk. For mid-career product professionals, it sits at the intersection of product management, growth, and operator leadership.
Career development signals:
- You'll build cross-functional skills rarely found in a single PM role: roadmap ownership, customer success, revenue operations, and team leadership.
- AI tooling proficiency is treated as a core competency — building this muscle now is highly marketable as the industry shifts.
- Shopify ecosystem experience is a green flag if you have it; this niche is growing rapidly and commands a premium in the e-commerce SaaS market.
Compensation context: Salary is location-adjusted to local market medians. For a senior PM/operator role in Western Europe, market rates typically range from €70,000–€110,000 annually. In Eastern Europe or LATAM, this would be lower. saas.group's transparency policy (written salary range before interview one) is a genuine green flag in an industry where salary opacity is common.
Culture signals: Low bureaucracy, high autonomy, small team — this is startup-style execution within a portfolio holding company. Expect less career ladder clarity but more scope and ownership. The structured handover from founders is a positive sign of organizational maturity.
Potential red flag: "Acquisition in progress" means some uncertainty in the early months. Candidates should ask about product ARR, churn, and the acquisition timeline before accepting.
This position is connected to an upcoming acquisition within our portfolio, currently in progress. You'll join right at the beginning of a new chapter, where you'll get to modernize the product and shape the technical foundation of the brand from day one.
What is saas.group?
Think of us as the driving catalyst behind your favorite software success stories. saas.group, established in 2017, is on a mission to turbocharge promising B2B SaaS ventures, unlocking their full potential. As a Software-as-a-Service portfolio powerhouse, we specialize in acquiring small software treasures and polishing them into industry stars. With a dynamic, fully remote team of nearly 350+ colleagues spanning 50+ countries, we are truly global and we are rewriting the playbook on SaaS innovation and collaboration. We grow 23 exciting brands under our umbrella. Feel free to explore our Candidate's Hub to get an insider's view, dive into our culture, gain valuable insights into our teams and how we work.
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Profile Overview
You'll lead the product roadmap, direct a small dedicated engineering/QA team, stay close to customers daily, and use AI tooling aggressively to operate and drive growth — with the leverage of a much larger saas.group team alongside you. You'll work alongside the managing partner and a shared sales & marketing resource, with a structured handover from the founding team.
Your immediate impact in the first 3–6 months will be:
- Immerse in the product, support tickets, and customer calls as you learn the product
- Structured knowledge transfer from the founding team
- Take over day-to-day direction of the engineering/QA team and the agency relationship
- Work with the founding team and the saas.group team to shape strategy & growth motions
- Owning top-merchant relationships and building a larger-account sales motion
Your Responsibilities
- Own the product: roadmap, prioritization, and direction for a senior full-stack developer and QA analyst
- Be in the product's front line: handle merchant conversations, run demos and onboarding calls, and turn those conversations into roadmap insight and reviews
- Drive conversion and expansion: revamp the in-product onboarding flow, improve install-to-paid activation, and run upsell motions into the existing base
- Improve the operating layer: documentation, help-centre content, and lightweight process for a business that has run brilliantly on founder intuition
- Use AI as a force multiplier across support, product specs, documentation, and data analysis — this is core to how the role works, not a buzzword
What You Bring to the Table
- 4–7+ years in product management, growth, or founder/operator roles in B2B SaaS or e-commerce (early-stage or small-team environments preferred)
- Technically fluent: you can scope features with engineers, read API docs, and reason about tradeoffs — without needing to code
- Demonstrated, habitual use of AI tools in real work — you should be able to show us, not tell us
- Customer-facing by instinct: you like support conversations and demos, and you're good at them
- Self-directed and structure-building: you've operated where the process didn't exist until you wrote it
- Commercially literate: comfortable owning conversion metrics, pricing experiments, and revenue outcomes
- Nice to have: Shopify ecosystem experience; experience directing remote/contractor teams
What's in it for You
- Ultimate flexibility: We're 100% remote. You can work from wherever you like, whenever you like. Needs meaningful overlap with US merchant hours and CET development team's working hours.
- Freedom and autonomy: We're a high-trust team, and you'll be given lots of flexibility to solve problems in your own way — with plenty of help from the team when you need it.
- Minimum bureaucracy: We don't like to get bogged down with meetings and red tape. We like to be efficient and keep momentum steady & sustainable.
- Small & friendly team: We help each other out, have fun, and joke around.
- Our network: We are a community of entrepreneurial SaaS professionals that regularly exchange ideas, knowledge, learning, and expertise with each other internally.
- Flexible time off: We want you to recharge your batteries when needed.
We don't just simply offer you to "take a job with us" but rather to "join us on this journey" to build the world's largest platform of independent SaaS companies.
Sounds like something you're up for? Feel free to apply even if you don't check all these boxes. We believe in the power of diversity and fresh perspectives to spice up our team. Your application might just be the missing ingredient!
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saas.group is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. If you're passionate about working with a team that values innovation, excellence, and fairness, we encourage you to apply.
We believe in fair and transparent pay. Salary ranges at saas.group are location-adjusted, targeting local market medians for a remote-first environment, and will be shared with our potential future employees in writing before your first interview — so you have everything you need to evaluate the opportunity.
Frequently Asked Questions
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