Product Lead Consultant
Job description
A Product Lead Practitioner role at Crosslake Technologies, advising private equity investors and portfolio companies across EMEA on product strategy, AI credibility, and product-led value creation throughout the investment lifecycle. The role can be based anywhere in Europe on a fully remote basis.
At a glance
- Work mode
- Remote · Europe
What you'll do
- Lead and contribute to product assessments for investment firms and portfolio companies across the EMEA investment lifecycle, from pre-close diligence through post-close value creation and exit preparation
- Evaluate the strength, credibility, and competitive defensibility of a target company's product strategy, roadmap, and go-to-market approach across EMEA markets
- Assess how AI and machine learning are embedded in a company's product, distinguishing genuine capability from surface-level positioning, and articulate the implications for competitive advantage, risk, and value creation
- Analyse product-market fit, customer segmentation, expansion opportunity, localisation needs, and the assumptions underlying growth projections across EMEA
- Review product team structure, delivery capability, execution track record, and organisational readiness for growth across distributed EMEA teams
- Conduct primary research including executive interviews, customer discovery conversations, and expert network engagements across relevant EMEA markets
- Synthesise findings from documentation, regional market research, customer evidence, and interviews into structured, investment-grade deliverables
- Communicate complex product and market dynamics clearly and concisely to deal teams, investment committees, operating partners, and company leadership across EMEA
- Advise portfolio company product leaders on strategy, prioritisation, localisation, and capability development post-close
What we're looking for
- 15+ years of product management experience, with significant time in senior or executive leadership roles (Director, VP, CPO, or equivalent) at B2B software or SaaS companies operating in EMEA or globally
- Demonstrated track record shipping products at scale, including ownership of product strategy, roadmap prioritisation, and cross-functional delivery in agile environments across regional or international markets
- Hands-on experience building or leading AI/ML-powered products — not just roadmap familiarity, but direct involvement in defining AI product strategy, making build/partner/buy decisions, managing model risk, and navigating user trust, data protection, and experience challenges across EMEA
- Ability to critically evaluate a company's AI strategy from the outside, including data assets, model dependencies, technical differentiation, competitive vulnerability, responsible AI posture, regulatory exposure, and the realism of AI-driven roadmap assumptions in EMEA markets
- Strong analytical capability: fluency using market research, customer data, competitive intelligence, and regional market signals to form defensible, evidence-based conclusions
- Exceptional written and verbal communication; able to translate product and technology complexity into concise narratives for non-technical executive audiences, including cross-border investment stakeholders
- Broad experience across enterprise software, B2B SaaS, and the full SDLC from discovery through delivery and growth, ideally with exposure to multiple EMEA markets
- Comfort working in fast-moving, ambiguous environments, often across multiple markets and time zones, with high accountability for output quality
Nice to have
- Prior experience in management consulting, investment due diligence, or advisory roles serving PE-backed companies in EMEA
- Familiarity with private equity investment models, deal processes, and value creation frameworks used by EMEA investors
- Experience at or advising PE-backed software companies through periods of rapid growth, operational improvement, international expansion, or M&A across EMEA
- Vertical domain depth in one or more relevant EMEA markets or sectors (FinTech, HealthTech, GovTech, LegalTech, MarTech, HR Tech, industrial software, compliance-heavy software, etc.)
- Experience building or scaling product organisations, not just leading individual product lines, ideally across distributed or multilingual teams
- Exposure to sell-side advisory, exit preparation, or investor-facing product storytelling for EMEA or international buyers
Your team
Product Lead Practitioners
Experienced practitioners whose expert judgment is complemented by proven frameworks, tech-enabled solutions, and objective data to help organizations navigate critical technology decisions across diligence, transformation, growth, cybersecurity, AI, and operational execution.
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About Crosslake Technologies LLC
Technology is no longer just an enabler of business strategy. It is the business strategy.
Crosslake Technologies helps private equity investors and portfolio company leaders drive value creation through technology. Its expert practitioners combine proven frameworks, tech-enabled solutions, and objective data to help organizations navigate critical technology decisions across diligence, transformation, growth, cybersecurity, AI, and operational execution.
Mission
Helping private equity investors and portfolio company leaders drive value creation through technology.
Key facts
- Focused on helping private equity investors and portfolio company leaders drive value creation through technology
- Works across diligence, transformation, growth, cybersecurity, AI, and operational execution
- Serves investors deploying trillions annually into software and tech-enabled businesses
What they value
- Service
- Curiosity
- Credibility
- Commitment
- Creativity