Senior Product Lead – SaaS Marketplace

Senior Product Lead – SaaS / Marketplace

Location: Romania / Remote within the region

Type: Full-time

Company: Academia United EdTech Group

About us

Academia United is an early-stage technology company building digital products for the international education and language travel industry.

We are a bootstrapped startup that has not raised external investment yet, and we are building our products with a strong focus on sustainable growth, commercial value, and long-term potential. We operate with a lean team, move quickly, and believe in taking ownership rather than adding unnecessary processes.

We are now looking for a hands-on Senior Product Lead to work directly with our founder and development team, helping turn our product vision into finished, commercially successful products.

The product

B2B SaaS Platform

Our main product is a platform combining bookings, CRM, payments, automation, and revenue-generation tools for education agencies and language schools worldwide.

The role

• Until now, much of the product vision and development direction has been driven directly by our founder. We are looking for someone who can take that vision and independently drive product execution on a daily basis.
• You should be comfortable working in a startup environment where not everything is fully defined, priorities can evolve, and people are expected to solve problems rather than wait for instructions.
• You will turn ideas, business needs, and rough workflows into:
• Clear user journeys and product flows
• Practical product requirements and specifications
• Prioritised development tasks
• Intuitive UX improvements
• Well-tested, finished functionality
• Product decisions that balance user needs, technical constraints, and commercial outcomes
• You will work closely with developers, resolve day-to-day product questions, challenge unnecessary complexity, and help the team move faster without creating bureaucracy.

What we are looking for

• 5+ years of product management or product leadership experience
• Strong experience with SaaS platforms, marketplaces, or other complex digital products
• Experience working in a startup or scale-up environment
• Excellent UX judgement and a strong understanding of user behaviour
• Experience working directly with developers and translating business needs into actionable tasks
• Strong commercial thinking and an understanding of how product decisions influence revenue
• The ability to make decisions independently and take responsibility for outcomes
• Comfort working with limited resources and evolving priorities
• Excellent English communication skills
• A strong sense of ownership, urgency, and accountability

Experience in travel-tech, booking platforms, CRM, payments, or EdTech would be an advantage.

AI is part of how we work

We use AI extensively across product development and expect you to do the same.

You should be comfortable using AI tools for research, product specifications, prototyping, QA, documentation, workflow analysis, and problem-solving. We value people who use technology to increase their productivity, improve decision-making, and accelerate delivery.

This is not a traditional Product Manager role

We are not looking for someone whose main responsibility is managing Jira, organising meetings, or waiting for instructions.

We need someone who can understand the bigger picture, make practical decisions, work directly with developers, and take ownership from the initial idea through to delivery.

As an early-stage, bootstrapped company, we value people who are resourceful, commercially minded, and comfortable making meaningful progress without large teams, extensive budgets, or layers of management.

You will have direct access to the founder, significant influence over product decisions, and the opportunity to shape products with international reach.

What success looks like

• Faster development and shorter feedback cycles
• Clearer requirements and fewer unnecessary iterations
• Better user journeys and more intuitive products
• Less day-to-day dependency on the founder for product decisions
• Consistent progress towards product launches, customer adoption, and revenue

If you enjoy building, solving problems, and taking real ownership in a lean startup environment, this could be an opportunity to make a meaningful impact.