Head of Product (all genders)

Kertos Intro

Kertos is the fastest-growing compliance startup in Europe.

Following our €14M Series A, backed by leading VCs and business angels, we are building the compliance engine for Europe - faster, smarter, and more automated than ever.

With customers like Enpal, Flink, Personio, and Blacklane, leading companies trust our AI-native platform that automates compliance, scales effortlessly, and makes organizations audit-ready in record time.

The market is growing by 20% every year, fueled by regulations like GDPR, NIS2, DORA, and the AI Act. We are perfectly positioned to establish Kertos as the European compliance champion.

There has never been a better moment to join our team.

Come shape the future of compliance in Europe with us.

Your purpose at Kertos

As Head of Product, you own Kertos's product vision and roadmap, and you're joining at a genuinely pivotal moment. The category is being redrawn: compliance is shifting from software as a service to service as software, where AI and automation do the work wherever they can and our compliance experts focus on the judgment calls that still need a human. Few companies get to shape a product at the point where that shift is actually happening. You will.

That means the roadmap in front of you is wide open. There are more good directions to take the product than we can pursue at once, across the segments we serve today and the ones we're growing into, and a real part of the job is choosing where to place the bets. You'll work closely with our compliance experts to understand exactly what clients need, and decide with your team and engineering where the line between automation and human judgment sits today, with the mandate to push it forward quarter after quarter as AI takes on more of the work.

This role sits at the center of the product organization and value creation. You set the roadmap across squads, and you lead and grow the product team, partnering closely with our compliance experts and building around their knowledge, their needs, and their day-to-day work. You're accountable for the roadmap, for how the product team operates, and for outcomes clients can feel directly: time saved, risk reduced, audits passed.

Your responsibilities

• Set the product vision, defining where Kertos product goes next, the shift from compliance software clients operate themselves to a service that delivers compliance outcomes for them, and turn that vision into a roadmap built around client value, not just feature velocity.
• Partner closely with our compliance experts to learn what actually creates value for them and our customers, and work with our Development Team to turn that expertise into a product that makes their work faster and clients' outcomes better.
• Continue to develop and mentor four product managers and two designers as the team scales, set the standards for how they run discovery and shipping, and make sure they grow into stronger PMs under you.
• Optimize the discovery process and work closely with compliance experts, design and engineering to understand problems deeply, validate ideas with real clients before building, and ship improvements that move a client's compliance outcome.
• Understand needs of customers, Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing so product bets translate into revenue, retention, and measurable value for clients, especially as features move from "helps you do compliance" to "does the compliance work for you."
• Own the roadmap, setting priorities independently, and aligning them with technical leads, our customer advisory board, key clients, and the leadership team.
• Use data to define what success looks like for each initiative in terms clients would recognize, such as “time saved”, “risk mitigated”, “time to audit readiness”, and work with Marketing and Customer Success to turn usage data into the next round of decisions.

The skills, motivation, and mentality you should bring

• You've led product strategy in B2B SaaS as a Head of Product or similar, at a startup, scale-up, or an agile team inside a larger company and ideally have taken a product from idea through GA more than once.
• You've hired, mentored, and managed product managers before, and know how to set clear expectations and give feedback that actually helps.
• You successfully partner with compliance or legal experts who aren't engineers and turn their knowledge into product requirements
• You are passionate about AI and enjoy using it to define new product processes
• You are an ambitious and driven high-performer that wants to have a high impact on changing how compliance work gets done, excited about new user flows and AI-driven automation and is excited to take our compliance service & software product to series B ready.
• Big plus if you bring technical engineering expertise that helps you to discuss frontend, backend, and cloud architecture and you can successfully turn complex technical and compliance topics into clear direction for engineering, sales, leadership, and customers.
• Familiarity with GRC, information security, or privacy topics would be a great plus point, too.
• German language skills are required for this position.

Why Kertos

• You are Kertos: Don’t like something? Could be done better? You have the freedom to push things forward and contribute to making Kertos a great place to work
• Unique opportunity: Join the growing team of one of Europe’s most promising early stages companies and to work directly with our COO Joe
• European funding in the millions: The EU has funded our AI research with a total of over 2 million euros
• Regular Feedback: We foster an open feedback culture and support your growth with regular 1-on-1 meetings
• Full Flexibility: Whether at the Berlin office, our Munich HQ or at your home office - we are flexible, and you'll be happy
• Keep growing: To boost your professional and personal growth, we provide you with a Personal Development Budget of 1.500€ per year
• Cutting Edge Technology: Leading VCs have invested in our vision to revolutionize how compliance measures are handled sustainably
• Mental Health: We've partnered with nilo to prioritize your well-being, offering personalized mental health support for all employees
• For Sports Enthusiasts: We subsidize your Wellpass membership for your physical fitness for a better work-life balance
• Steep learning curve: With us you get full responsibility from day 1, push topics forward independently and thus learn a lot
• Strong onboarding: No idea about compliance and its automation? No problem, we'll turn you into an expert and provide you with an onboarding buddy
• Teamwork Makes the Dream Work: We are a strong team that supports each other, and we also have a lot of fun together beyond work and across different locations

Sounds like you are the one we’ve been looking for?

Perfect, let's have a chat! Just send in your CV. We are excited to meet you soon.

In case you have any questions, feel free to reach out to our People & Culture team. We're happy to answer all your questions.