Product Strategist

We’re November Five. Makers, designers, strategists. Different backgrounds, one mindset. We say what we mean and do what we say. Passion walks in; expertise grows.

Feedback is direct. We’re hard on the facts, but kind on the people. We wear more than one hat, and we’re proud of it. We collaborate hard and we’re always looking for more people like us.

We’ve also built things of our own. Appmiral, Spencer, Gorilla, Wovian. Four ventures born inside November Five. When the right idea meets the right people, we build it. That’s not a side note. It’s part of who we are.

• →Start with the problem, not the solution. You've taken messy, half-formed briefs and turned them into clear opportunities. You know a real problem from a symptom, and you don't fall for the first idea just because it's the loudest one in the room.
• →Are obsessive about the "why". Why the metric moved, why users drop off, why the obvious answer feels wrong. You have a good grasp of product fundamentals from both a customer and a technical angle, but curiosity is the thing that actually drives you.
• →Define success in numbers. You set the outcome and the measure up front, and you go back to check whether it moved. You've owned a business case, not just a backlog. A strategy you can't measure isn't finished.
• →Can hold a room. You've aligned clients and stakeholders around a direction by making the complex simple and the ambiguous concrete. You lead through clarity, not authority.
• →Are comfortable sharing rough work. A v0.1 strategy, a scrappy prototype, a first-pass analysis. You iterate based on what you learn. You don't need everything to be perfect before it's useful.
• →Treat AI as a creative partner. You've built a working rhythm with AI tools. Not as a shortcut, but as an instrument you've learned to play. You know when to let it lead and when to take over.
• →Cross lanes without losing your anchor. You've worked closely with designers, architects, and engineers as a genuine sparring partner, not just a coordinator. Your best work has usually happened slightly outside your job description.
• →Love bringing clarity to clients. You get genuinely excited about understanding someone else's world and turning uncertainty into confidence. That's what earns trust, not slide decks.
• →Want to work openly, transparently, and closely with your clients.
• →Speak Dutch and English fluently.

We use our Impact x Growth x Reward (IGR) framework, to make progression clear and evidence-based. Your growth is tied to the impact you create: on clients, on the work, on the team around you.

N5 is also a place where ideas become ventures. Four businesses have been built here already. If you’re working on something, we don’t ask you to leave it at the door.