Two things are true at the same time. AI is changing what products look like, what people expect from them, and what's worth building at all. And it's changing how the work itself gets led and done: how product people research, synthesise, and decide day-to-day, and how the teams and leaders around them organise to keep up.
Here's the catch for the organisations we work with: knowing this isn't the same as being able to act on it. Their leaders need someone who can change how the organisation works (how the product gets led, decided, and resourced in the AI era) and leave them better at it.
The shape of the work varies by client. For some, it's product leadership in the focused sense: how teams discover, decide, and ship in the AI era. For others, it's broader: helping leadership work out what AI changes across the business, and how to act on it. Often, the job is helping the client to find the edges. You're at home in that ambiguity, and it's where this role earns its keep.
🤖 A short description of your role as a Product Coach
The shape of the work varies by client. For some, it's product leadership in the focused sense: how teams discover, decide, and ship in the AI era. For others, it's broader: helping leadership work out what AI changes across the business, and how to act on it. Often, the job is helping the client to find the edges. You're at home in that ambiguity, and it's where this role earns its keep.
Across an engagement, the day-to-day looks something like:
Sitting with leadership and management to figure out where product leadership itself needs to change in the AI era, and what the organisation should stop, start, and sequence
Reshaping ways of working at the level that matters: how product gets decided, resourced, and run, and dropping to the team level when that's where the change has to take hold
Coaching senior people directly (on judgment, on prioritisation, on leading AI-era product work) so their capability compounds long after the engagement ends; coaching teams the same way when that's where it matters.
Calling the shot on where AI is the right tool, and where a well-designed traditional interface still wins, and helping leaders and teams build that instinct themselves
Using AI in your own work every day for research synthesis, drafts, analysis, and pre-reads, and modelling for everyone, from the team to the C-suite, what that looks like done well
Developing both halves at once: the people and the business outcome, leaving an organisation that leads product better and a business that's measurably ahead
✅ What could you bring with you?
There's no clean checklist, but here's the shape of it.
Product leadership you've earned, not borrowed
You've spent meaningful time leading product work on digital products and services, whether as a Product Lead, heading a product team, or running the practice. You know how to choose what matters when everything looks important, and you can sit with a delivery team in the morning and a CFO in the afternoon and be useful in both rooms. Consulting or product-house experience in coaching, product management, or leading product teams is a strong fit.You lead by making others better
You can own product direction when it's needed, and you've done it, but the instinct that makes you good here is wanting other people to get better, and being willing to step back so they can. You've grown product people and advised leaders before. You know the difference between solving the problem for someone and teaching them to solve it, and you reach for the second one even when the first is faster.The ability to change how an organisation works
You can walk into an established operating model (how the product gets led, decided, and resourced) and reorganise it without breaking the people in it. You know that durable change is about habits and incentives, not slide decks, and that it has to land with leadership and middle management to stick. You've actually shifted how an organisation operates, not just recommended that it should.AI that's actually in your workflow, not just your job description
You've refined PRDs with an LLM, run customer call transcripts through synthesis tools, drafted competitive scans in minutes, and sketched 2×2s as a prompt sequence. You can talk specifically about where these tools save you time and where they quietly mislead you, and you know when human review is non-negotiable. You can teach this, not just do it.An eye for AI-shaped product strategy
You hold both halves of the picture: AI inside the product (where it's the experience) and AI inside the team (where it's the tooling). You're not selling "AI-powered" as a feature; you understand that the advantage is in the data, distribution, user experience, and the loops a product gets to learn from. You bring that judgment, and you build it into the teams you coach.
🏆 What if you choose us?
We believe that recruitment is not about a company selecting a new employee. Ultimately, you make the choice. And we're here to help you make it.
Your work and daily life are also supported by our diverse benefits and opportunities, for example:
You can use 10% of your work time for professional development
€7,100 "Hardware Bank" for equipment and home office purchases, replenished monthly
Full paid vacation days from the start of employment regardless of start date
€100–2,000 bonus for each certification you complete
Shared trips, events, and hobby groups from running club to board game club
❓ Do you have questions? Is something on your mind?
We would be really interested to hear more about you. Tell us what kind of step you're taking in your career, and let's see how we could help you. Send us your LinkedIn profile or CV, and let's talk more about what Nitor could enable for you.
👥 We listen to you
We want to offer our experts the best possible workplace and support the development of your expertise. At Nitor, it's precisely you, your unique skills, and personal interests that determine the direction of your career.
AI-era product work is evolving fast, and so are we. You'll be part of a tight-knit community of coaches and consultants who are genuinely curious about where product leadership is heading — and honest about the fact that nobody has all the answers yet. You won't be figuring things out alone: you'll have colleagues to think alongside, share findings with, and challenge your assumptions. Interesting training sessions, events, and conferences keep you at the frontier, and you can use part of your work time for learning new things, developing our product coaching practice, and contributing to the broader conversation around what good looks like in this field. With us, your career path isn't predetermined — on the contrary, we encourage you to explore your interests without unnecessary hierarchy and bureaucracy. Our way of working is based on trust, openness, and respect for each other. Every Nitorean brings their own contribution to the company's operations. We value and cherish diversity and the added value it brings to our clients.
🎯 Briefly about Nitor – hopefully your future workplace too
Every Nitorean is a pragmatic and solution-focused team player who doesn't settle for assumptions. What's characteristic of us is really high professional skill and pride in both our own and our colleagues' work.
Our 250+ experts operate in Helsinki and Tampere, combining their diverse expertise to achieve meaningful impact. We're proud of our employee-centric culture and genuine commitment to our people's growth – in recognition of this, we've been awarded the Great Place to Work certification and selected as Finland's most attractive employer brand.
Our vision is clear: to be the industry's most desired workplace, where success comes from employee and client well-being and satisfaction. We continue our growth as a leader in IT industry client satisfaction, producing excellent added value for our clients.