Head of Product (Saas affiliate)

productremote / hybridfull-time

We hold the rights to build and monetise a dedicated affiliate content section within an established, high-authority web property in the software and technology space. A strong SEO asset with real potential. We've made a start and content is already going live, but it's early, and the direction needs a single owner to shape it and prove it out. That's this role. You take an early-stage start and turn it into a live, growing, monetising revenue line — deciding what content gets built, how it ranks, how it converts, and how it makes money. The focus is squarely software, SaaS, and technology. This is a build-and-drive role, not a caretaker one. You own the outcome and the momentum: refine the direction, ship fast, learn from the market, and steer the asset toward profitability over your first 6+ months. Profitability is the destination we're building toward together — and the trigger for your upside.

What you'll own

The affiliate content section. The content roadmap, priorities, and what gets built in what order. You're the single point of ownership for where this asset goes.
Direction and positioning. We have an early direction and some content live; you take it, sharpen which software/SaaS/tech verticals and audiences it targets, and own the model for how it makes money — refining and proving out the start we've made, and adjusting on evidence.
Monetisation, including new avenues. Make the core affiliate model work, then actively explore other ways to monetise the asset within the SaaS/tech space — software affiliate programs, tool reviews and comparisons, lead generation, sponsorships. Finding the second and third revenue stream is part of the job.
Momentum. Getting live content ranking and converting, learning fast, and iterating. A bias to shipping and testing over planning decks.
Orchestration. You leverage our in-house SEO, content, and tech teams as an internal customer to build the section, with your own budget to bring in freelancers when you need to move faster. You direct the work; you don't perform every function yourself.
Honest calls. A live thesis, a running test in the market, and a straight scale / iterate / pause recommendation as the evidence comes in.

How the role is set up

We've designed this so you can build without being punished for the realities of an early-stage asset:
A runway, not a day-one P&L. The section is pre-revenue and will cost before it earns — that's expected. You're measured on progress toward the path to profit, not on hitting break-even in month one.
Real spending authority. A monthly operating envelope you can deploy on content, tools, tracking, freelancers, and test spend without asking permission for every line — with clear tiers for larger commitments.
Ring-fenced resources. A written, guaranteed allocation of in-house SEO, content, and tech capacity dedicated to this asset — plus your own budget as the surge valve when you need more.
A direct line. You report straight to the founder in the build phase, so decisions move fast.

Your first 90 days

Own the play. Get up to speed on the starting point and the content already live; sharpen which verticals and audiences the section targets and how it monetises.
Accelerate what's shipping. Raise the quality and velocity of the content going out, and get it ranking and converting.
Prove the first signal — and map the next. Deliver early affiliate revenue that shows the core path works, plus a shortlist of additional monetisation avenues worth testing.

The arc

Over your first 6+ months you steer the section from an early-stage asset into a live, ranking content property with a proven, repeatable path to profit. As it proves its model and reaches profitability, the role grows with it — from driving a pre-revenue asset to owning an established, revenue-generating business line, with the mandate that comes with that. You grow into ownership as the asset earns it.

Compensation

Base salary: €65,000. This carries you through the build phase.
Performance bonuses, paid on real collected revenue:
A first-monetisation bonus for proving the affiliate model earns.
Revenue-milestone bonuses as the section reaches defined, sustained revenue tiers.
A break-even bonus when the section first covers its own running costs, including your base.
An annual performance bonus tied to hitting or beating the year's revenue target.
The principle is simple: we pay the base to get the asset built, and we pay the bonuses when you've made it earn.

Who you are

A product or growth leader who has taken a content or affiliate property from early-stage to traction, and wants to own the next one end to end — or a hungry builder ready to own the whole outcome for the first time and back yourself to find the path to profit.

Comfortable taking an early-stage start and shaping it into something that works, rather than needing a finished plan handed to you.

Commercially minded — you care about what actually makes money, not just what ranks.

Decisive and honest with the numbers: you make clear keep-going or stop calls and would rather build something with real upside than run something that already works.