Head of Product (m/w/d) – HealthTech
Posted on September 25, 2025 (about 2 hours ago)
Who we are?
Recare is one of the leading digital startups in the German healthcare industry, aiming to rethink healthcare with a platform for digital care coordination. We search for, find, and coordinate capacities so that healthcare actors have more time for their patients.
In a short time, Recare has gathered more than 660 acute and rehab clinics as well as over 17,000 other service providers on its digital platform. Renowned hospitals and clinic groups such as Vivantes, Sana Kliniken AG, München Klinik, Medical School Hannover, and University Hospital Essen are among Recare's customers and use the innovative Recare platform.
Job Description
About us:
As one of the leading German HealthTech companies, we are reshaping discharge management - technology-driven, patient-centered, and free from bureaucracy. Besides our market-leading SaaS platform, we develop AI solutions that radically simplify processes in clinics and among aftercare providers, relieve professionals, and refocus on patients. We already network two-thirds of all German hospitals with over 650 rehab clinics and 25,000 care and homecare providers. Currently about 70 employees strong, we are growing and look for people with commitment who want to improve the healthcare system with us.
Your Mission
As Head of Product (m/f/d), you lead our product managers with empathy, clarity, and entrepreneurial foresight.
You combine professional product management excellence with operational proximity to create scalable, data-driven, and customer-centered solutions that sustainably improve patient care.
With your collaborative leadership style, solid market and product understanding, and the ability to build structures in a dynamic scale-up, you transform visions into products that change healthcare and noticeably relieve people in everyday life.
This awaits you as our Head of Product (m/w/d):
- Working with Purpose – your work has a real impact on patients and medical professionals in healthcare and directly influences Recare's strategic direction.
- Company Culture – we rely on flat hierarchies that promote high performance and strong team dynamics. We maintain an atmosphere characterized by mutual respect, loyalty, and recognition, and pursue our goals together, expecting the same from you.
- Flexibility – Want to pick up your child from daycare? Like to exercise during lunch? We support you. We are a remote-friendly company where you can work 100% remotely anywhere in Germany and have flexible working hours. With prior arrangement, you can also do workations.
- Edenred Card – which you can use according to your needs.
- Birthday day off – so you can celebrate with your loved ones.
Your responsibilities as our Head of Product (m/w/d):
- Lead & Develop – You lead, coach, and develop our product managers (including Principal PM), promote growth mindset, ownership, and professional excellence – and are ready to also step in operationally yourself.
- Portfolio & Roadmap Responsibility – With support from the Director of Product, you keep track of all product lines – from our core platform to new AI solutions to the receiver side – and prioritize according to business impact. You plan capacities proactively and remove blockers before they become problems.
- Customer-centric, data-driven development – You ensure that our products are created from discovery to launch user-oriented, metrics-based, and competitive – and actively participate in user research and customer discussions.
- Lifecycle & Performance Management – You manage the entire product lifecycle, analyze success metrics and usage data, and derive optimizations or feature shutdowns – in close collaboration with Business Intelligence.
- Process & Compliance Excellence – You continuously develop our product development processes together with QA, design, engineering, and marketing and ensure ISO 27001 & C5 compliance.
- Collaboration & Stakeholder Alignment – You work closely with internal teams and external partners to connect strategy and delivery seamlessly and achieve common goals.
Requirements
What we envision for you as our Head of Product (m/w/d):
- Experience – 5–7 years of leading and mentoring product managers with direct personnel responsibility, ideally in a fast-scaling startup/scale-up.
- Hands-on Leadership – Several years of B2B product management experience from discovery to launch.
- Healthcare expertise – Experience in healthcare and successfully launched software products in this sector.
- Analytical strength – Strong understanding of metrics and data-driven decision-making.
- Language skills – Fluent in German and English, ideally with international experience.
Sounds interesting? Then we look forward to getting to know you!
How to Apply
You can apply directly via the application link here: Apply Now.
If you have any questions or want to contact the Talent Acquisition Manager, you can email Michael Tunin at [email protected].