Head of Product (m/w/d) – HealthTech
Posted on October 25, 2025 (19 minutes ago)
About Us
Recare is one of the leading digital startups in the German healthcare industry, dedicated to rethinking healthcare with a platform for digital care coordination. We search, find, and coordinate capacities so healthcare professionals have more time for their patients.
Recare has quickly brought together more than 660 acute and rehabilitation clinics and over 17,000 other service providers on its digital platform. Renowned hospitals and hospital groups such as Vivantes, Sana Kliniken AG, München Klinik, Medizinische Hochschule Hannover, and Universitätsklinikum Essen are among Recare's customers using the innovative Recare platform.
Job Description
About us:
As one of the leading German HealthTech companies, we are redesigning discharge management — technology-driven, patient-centered, and free from bureaucracy. In addition to our market-leading SaaS platform, we develop AI solutions that radically simplify processes in hospitals and with aftercare providers, relieve professionals, and refocus attention on patients. We currently connect two-thirds of all German hospitals with over 650 rehabilitation clinics and 25,000 nursing and homecare providers. With around 70 employees, we continue to grow and seek people with a strong mindset 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-centric solutions that sustainably improve patient care.
With your collaborative leadership style, profound market and product understanding, and ability to build structures in a dynamic scale-up, you transform visions into products that change healthcare and tangibly relieve people in everyday life.
What to expect as our Head of Product (m/f/d):
- Work with purpose – your work impacts patients and healthcare professionals and directly influences Recare's strategic direction.
- Company culture – we emphasize flat hierarchies that promote high performance and strong team dynamics. We foster a respectful, loyal, and appreciative environment and strive toward our goals together, expecting the same from you.
- Flexibility – want to pick up your child from daycare? Enjoy sports during lunch breaks? We support you. We are a remote-friendly company with 100% remote work possible throughout Germany and flexible working hours. Workations are possible upon agreement.
- Edenred card – which you can use according to your needs.
- Vacation day on your birthday – to celebrate with your loved ones.
Your responsibilities as our Head of Product (m/f/d):
- Lead & develop – Report to our Director of Product, lead, coach, and develop our product managers (including Principal PM), promote growth mindset, ownership, and professional excellence, and be ready to step in operationally yourself.
- Portfolio & roadmap responsibility – Keep overview of all product lines with support from the Director of Product – from our core platform to new AI solutions to the receiver side – and prioritize by business impact. Plan capacity proactively and remove blockers before they become problems.
- Customer-centric, data-driven development – Ensure products are user-oriented, metric-based, and competitively developed from discovery to launch, and actively participate in user research and customer conversations.
- Lifecycle & performance management – Manage the entire product lifecycle, analyze success metrics and usage data, and derive optimizations or feature retirements in close collaboration with business intelligence.
- Process & compliance excellence – Continuously improve product development processes with QA, design, engineering, and marketing, ensuring ISO 27001 & C5 compliance.
- Collaboration & stakeholder alignment – Work closely with internal teams and external partners to seamlessly connect strategy and delivery and achieve common goals.
Requirements
Our expectations for you as Head of Product (m/f/d):
- Experience – 5–7 years of leadership 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 know-how – Experience in healthcare and successfully launched software products in this area.
- Analytical strength – Strong understanding of metrics and data-driven decision-making.
- Language proficiency – Fluent in German and English, ideally with international experience.
Sounds exciting? We look forward to meeting you!
Interested in joining our team?
You can apply directly for this position through the link provided on the website.
Contact
Would you like to know if you and Recare are a good match? Let's find out in a conversation. We look forward to meeting you soon.
Michael Tunin
Talent Acquisition Manager Recare
How to Apply
You can apply directly for this position via the link below:
Contact
If you want to know if you and Recare are a good match, check it out in a conversation. We look forward to meeting you soon.
Michael Tunin
Talent Acquisition Manager Recare