195 | UK Enterprise Awards 2023 Apr23200 Leading Product Management & Design Recruitment Agency 2023 Cambridge-based company Product Heads Limited is helping early and growth-stage SaaS startups build effective, successful product teams. The company specialises in helping its clients hire, shape and develop the perfect product team as well as define and execute winning product strategies. We speak with founder and director, Tim Wilkinson, to find out more about what drives this innovative company. Being at the cutting edge of technology comes at a price. For companies working feverishly to bring to market the latest innovations, speed is always of the essence. Finding and retaining the right talent is challenging at the best of times. Add to that the urgency surrounding the SaaS industry, and the time it takes to hire and develop a product team can often dictate the project’s eventual success or failure. Based in the UK’s top regional tech hub, Product Heads helps its clients to build strong, confident product teams to drive growth and provide them with a competitive edge. Before founding Product Heads in 2021, Tim spent 15 years as a product manager building software products and product teams. He tells us, “At Product Heads, we help CEOs and product leaders find the teams they need to build products and businesses their customer love. We focus relentlessly on supporting and helping our clients. We’re pretty obsessive about it. We’re passionate about product management and make sure we understand our customers and the challenges they’re facing.” The UK currently boasts Europe’s strongest tech sector. And, with the early-stage tech sector in the country booming, venture investment is holding strong. Tim says, “A significant proportion of the investment that companies receive goes into building a team of skilled people who can execute on the founder’s vision. That’s where we come in! We’re very familiar with the skills and experience our clients need to add to their teams. We understand how to assess those skills to find the best talent. “The combination of our focus on building longterm, strategic relationships with our clients, and our qualification process ensures that we introduce them to great candidates and speed up hiring time.” As a business grows, it’s essential to prepare for the new challenges that are sure to appear on the horizon. As well as recruitment, Product Heads offers consultancy services in areas such as product vision and strategy, goal setting, planning, assessment, and product leadership. The company can also provide regular, or one-off, coaching and training sessions for product leaders and product teams across a range of disciplines. As an early-stage start-up itself, Product Heads is growing fast. When recruiting, Tim looks for candidates who are ambitious, entrepreneurial, autonomous and customer-obsessed. Tim explains, “Attitude is always the most important thing. With the right mindset and support, and the autonomy to execute, people can achieve great things.” Despite its current growth, Product Heads intends to retain its status as a boutique agency. Tim tells us, “We are working with lots of fantastic new clients, and we get a large chunk of our business from existing clients. But we will always stay small to enable us to focus on our specialism and to deliver first-class service to our customers.” We are sure the future is going to be bright for Product Heads Limited. Company: Product Heads Limited Web Address: www.productheads.io
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