Strategic Product Lead @ Relief

TL;DR

• Position also known as (or close to): Strategic Product Lead / Product Strategist / Product Operations Lead

• Location: Paris (hybrid)

• Salary range: €80K–90K + BSPCE

• Type of Contract: CDI, full-time

• Direct reporting line: CEO

• Start date: ASAP

🌍 About Relief

Relief unlocks manufacturers’ growth potential by leveraging quoting with AI.

We help industrial companies 10x their commercial processes - by enabling them to quote faster, more accurately, and more profitably.

In less than 12 months, Relief has:

• Signed 10 paying clients,

• Reached €300k in ARR,

• Raised €2.6M in venture funding from top-tier investors.

Our ambition: become the AI assistant that powers profitability and speed for every manufacturing company in Europe.

🎯 Mission

As Strategic Product Lead, you’ll be the strategic brain of Relief’s Product function — operating between the CEO (acting VP Product), the Tech team, and the field (Sales & Ops).

You will not be a “feature PM” managing tickets — but rather a strategic operator, shaping the product direction, testing hypotheses, quantifying impact, and ensuring organizational alignment around the product vision.

🧱 What You’ll Do

1. Challenge & Structure the Product Vision

• Decompose the CEO’s intuitions into testable, quantified hypotheses.

• Conduct user research and market analyses to validate product direction.

• Evaluate and prioritize opportunities for value creation (new AI capabilities, catalog extensions, automation layers).

2. Own & Formalize the Product Roadmap

• Own the full Now / Next / Later roadmap.

• Quantify potential impact vs. effort for product initiatives.

• Define a clear, company-wide product narrative that aligns Sales, Ops, and Tech.

3. Bridge with Tech

• Translate the roadmap into actionable deliverables for the technical team.

• Secure clear commitments, timelines, and resourcing from engineering.

• Ensure technical execution stays aligned with product strategy.

4. Align All Stakeholders

• Maintain alignment across Sales, Ops, and Product on the value delivered.

• Support internal and external storytelling (investor decks, client demos, product docs).

• Act as the company’s reference point for “why and where the product is going.”

🧠 Who You Are

• An ex-strategy consultant (McKinsey, BCG, Bain, or similar) who transitioned into Product or Strategy & Ops in a startup, and now wants to apply that clarity and problem-solving mindset to building a real product

• Or an ex-engineer or data profile who evolved into product strategy - someone who loves translating technical potential into business value, and bringing structure to ambiguity

• Proven ability to structure and deliver work on complex, cross-functional topics (GTM strategy, product-market fit, operating model design).

• Exceptional analytical and abstraction skills — you can go from raw problem to structured insight.

• Outstanding stakeholder management — you inspire clarity and alignment across founders, engineers, and sales leaders.

• Exposure to product, data, or engineering environments. Used to system thinking

• Strong curiosity for AI, SaaS, and industrial innovation.

🚫 Don’t apply if…

• You’re looking for a “feature PM” role focused on ticket management or UX delivery.

• You need a fully defined process or a large product team to rely on - we’re still early, and you’ll be building structure as you go.

• You’re uncomfortable with ambiguity, imperfect data, or fast pivots.

• You prefer analyzing from the sidelines rather than owning decisions and outcomes.

• You value hierarchy and formal titles over direct collaboration with founders and engineers.

• You’re not genuinely curious about how AI and data can transform real-world industries.

👉 This role is for someone who thrives in complexity, builds clarity from noise, and wants to shape both the product and the company itself.

📊 Success Metrics

• Clarity and alignment of the product roadmap.

• Percentage of product initiatives tied to measurable business outcomes.

• Internal alignment across Sales, Ops, and Tech on product direction.

• Velocity and reliability of Tech commitments vs. roadmap goals.

💡 Why Join Relief

• 🧩 Strategic impact: you’ll shape the product trajectory of one of Europe’s most promising AI industrial startups.

• ⚙️ Deep, meaningful problem space: AI, manufacturing, productivity, and profitability.

• 🤝 Direct exposure: work hand-in-hand with the CEO and CTO.

• 💸 Competitive package (80k-90k) + BSPCE.

• 🌍 Culture: lean, written, analytical, kind - built for people who think and act fast.