[Hiring] Head of Product @PRKGR

Role Description

Are you ready to build, scale, and continuously improve a portfolio of high-impact Professional Services in an international environment? Do you combine product expertise with strategic and commercial thinking, and do you get energy from translating complex customer challenges into scalable, customer-focused solutions?

At Parakar, we believe professional services should do more than solve operational challenges. They should provide clients with reliable, compliant, and scalable solutions that support international growth. As Head of Product – Professional Services, you take full ownership of shaping, developing, and strengthening Parakar's Professional Services portfolio across Europe.

This includes:

• Continuing to grow and optimize our Payroll and NRP services.
• Building and implementing additional service lines such as Accounting, Entity Setup & Management, and other professional services that support our long-term growth strategy.

You will operate at the intersection of product strategy, sales, marketing, operations, technology, and customer value. Your mission is to strengthen and expand Parakar's Professional Services offering, support commercial growth, and continuously improve how our services are positioned, developed, and delivered.

What you will do:

• Own and continuously evolve Parakar's Professional Services portfolio, ensuring our services remain competitive, scalable, and aligned with customer and market needs.
• Continue to grow and strengthen existing services, including Payroll and NRP, while identifying opportunities for new service offerings.
• Build, launch, and implement additional service lines such as Accounting, Entity Setup & Management, and other future services that support Parakar's growth strategy.
• Develop a profitable and customer-focused portfolio that delivers value to clients and strengthens Parakar's market position.
• Shape the positioning and go-to-market strategy of Professional Services together with Sales and Marketing.
• Translate customer feedback, market developments, and regulatory changes into new products, service improvements, and commercial opportunities.
• Monitor business performance and identify opportunities to improve growth, profitability, operational efficiency, and customer retention.
• Collaborate closely with teams across Sales, Operations, Legal, Finance, Product, and Leadership to drive innovation, alignment, and successful execution.

Qualifications

• Located in one of the countries where Parakar is located.
• Bachelor-level thinking and working, preferably in Business Administration, Human Resources, Finance, Accounting, Payroll, or a related field.
• At least 5-7 years of relevant experience in payroll, HR services, accounting, entity management, financial services, or a comparable international services environment.
• Experience developing, scaling, or managing services, products, or business offerings.
• Strong commercial mindset and the ability to translate market opportunities into customer value and business growth.
• Ability to think strategically while remaining hands-on and pragmatic when needed.
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to align teams and drive change across an organization.
• Analytical mindset and the ability to navigate complexity, priorities, and competing interests.
• Professional fluency in English, both spoken and written.

Requirements

• Experience with international payroll, accounting, entity management, or related professional services (nice to have).
• Experience launching, scaling, or managing multiple service lines (nice to have).
• Experience in consulting, product management, business development, or commercial service environments (nice to have).
• Knowledge of multiple European employment, tax, payroll, accounting, or compliance frameworks (nice to have).

Benefits

• A starting annual salary between €35.000 and €72.000,- gross (depending on your experience and location).
• An annual development budget of €1,000.
• 31 vacation days annually.
• A bonus potential of 10% in addition to your base salary.
• An annual team event with all your international colleagues.
• A fun, social, and dynamic work environment with colleagues across much of Europe.
• A strong focus on learning, development, and personal growth.
• All the means and facilities you need to do your job properly.
• The opportunity to shape a product with significant potential, where success will be recognized and rewarded.

Company Description

Parakar is a dynamic, sparkling and progressive club! With a team of 60 HR specialists, we provide a range of global outsourced HR and payroll management services. What kind of services are those? Think outsourced human resource management, HR consulting and management, payroll, immigration and everything that comes with it. At Parakar, we deliver effective solutions time and again by interweaving local expertise with international experience.

Parakar's headquarter is located in Breda, the Netherlands, and we also have several offices across Europe. We believe in a future of work, where organizations and professionals of all generations should always be able to work together, regardless of when, how and where. To make this possible, we are looking for driven professionals who want to take up this challenge with us.

At Parakar, you are central, because we believe that without satisfied people, there are no satisfied customers. This means that we like to invest in your development, understand that flexibility is a must and that all that hard work should be compensated with a lot of fun and a good salary. So, if you think you have the Parakar DNA, we would love to talk to you!