People Operations Manager with PO experience (HealthTech domain)

About the Position

We're seeking a People Operations Manager with PO experience in the HealthTech domain to join our remote-first, async-friendly team in Europe.

The role requires ability to travel across EU.

Responsibilities

People Management:

• Line management of all POs - 1:1s, performance conversations, and compensation reviews done with both clarity and care;
• Career development for every PO - levelling, individual development plans, and an honest path forward (not just a template);
• Team health - engagement, conflict resolution, retention, and catching burnout before it becomes a problem;
• Hiring and onboarding end-to-end - from role definition through to final hire decision;
• Capacity allocation in partnership with product leadership - balancing where people are needed against where they need to grow.

The craft:

• A real PO community with rituals people actually value - peer learning, retrospectives that improve how the function works, not just how people feel about it;
• The career ladder and competency framework - define it, keep it alive, use it consistently;
• Coaching on the skills that don't appear in a backlog: stakeholder management, influence without authority, executive presence, and communication that lands.

Requirements

Must-haves:

• 5+ years managing product people directly - POs, PMs, BAs, or similar - with a track record of growing people into more senior roles;
• A background as a PO or PM yourself. You need to understand the craft to develop people in it;
• Comfort with hard performance conversations - empathy and clarity together, not one at the expense of the other;
• Experience in a matrix structure where you influence without controlling everything that affects your team;
• Strong written communication - frameworks, reviews, and internal docs that work without you in the room to explain them;
• Fluent English.

What will set you apart:

• You've built a career ladder or competency framework from scratch, not inherited one;
• You've worked alongside a strong product leader where accountability was clear - you drove people growth, they drove product direction - and that clarity made both of you more effective;
• Experience in B2B SaaS, enterprise software, or regulated industries;
• You've managed through scaling or restructuring and kept the people worth keeping.

We Offer

• Real ownership over how a product function develops - the career ladder, the hiring bar, the coaching practice. These exist in early form today; you'll shape what they grow into;
• POs who are doing serious work across complex domains - finance, migration, AI, enterprise markets - and who will grow more with dedicated support than without it;
• Remote-first, async-friendly culture with flexible working hours;
• Collaborative, low-ego team that values clarity over politics;
• Stable, growing SaaS company with a long-term outlook and high standards.

About the Company

Opinov8 is a stable, growing SaaS company with a long-term outlook and high standards. We are committed to providing a remote-first, async-friendly culture with flexible working hours and a collaborative, low-ego team that values clarity over politics.