Chief Product Officer

Edison Smart®; Dubai; On-site; AED 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Edison Smart® in Dubai is seeking a Chief Product Officer to own global product strategy, vision and execution for a high growth fintech company. You will define the product roadmap, align with executive leadership and drive the evolution of products across multiple markets.

The role requires a senior leader with proven fintech/payments experience, a track record of scaling products internationally, and a strong focus on customer experience, regulatory alignment and commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the global product vision, strategy and roadmap.
• Build and lead a high performing product organisation across markets and functions.
• Collaborate with CEO, founders and executive leadership on company strategy.
• Translate strategy into a searchable, commercially-focused product roadmap.
• Drive product-led growth, customer adoption and monetisation across regions.
• Establish scalable product processes and metrics to measure success.

Job description

Industry: Fintech / Payments / Financial Technology

About the Opportunity

We are looking for an exceptional Chief Product Officer (CPO) to join a high growth fintech and take ownership of the company's global product strategy, vision and execution.

This is a senior executive appointment for a product leader who has experience building and scaling world class fintech, payments or financial technology products in complex, high-growth environments.

You will work closely with theCEO, founders and executive leadership team, playing a critical role in shaping the company's next phase of growth.

The Role

As CPO, you will own the company's overall product organisation and strategy, from product vision and roadmap through to execution, customer adoption and commercial outcomes.

You will be responsible for building a product organisation capable of operating across multiple markets while maintaining a strong focus on customer experience, innovation, scalability and regulatory requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and own the global product vision, strategy and roadmap.
• Build and lead a high performing product organisation, including product management and potentially product design, research and product operations.
• Partner closely with the CEO, founders and executive leadership team on company strategy.
• Translate company strategy into a clear and commercially focused product roadmap.
• Own product prioritisation across multiple markets, customer segments and product lines.
• Drive the development and launch of scalable fintech / payments products.
• Establish strong product management processes, operating models and product metrics.
• Build a culture of customer-centric, data driven product development.
• Work closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Commercial, Compliance, Risk and Operations.
• Balance customer needs, commercial opportunities, technical constraints and regulatory requirements.
• Identify new product opportunities, markets and revenue streams.
• Drive product led growth, customer adoption, retention and monetisation.
• Develop a deep understanding of customer needs and market trends.
• Represent the product organisation at board, investor and senior stakeholder level.
• Act as a key external ambassador for the company's product and technology vision.

Ideal Background

We are particularly interested in product leaders who have operated within high growth fintech, payments or financial services technology companies.

• Significant senior product leadership experience, ideally at CPO, VP Product, SVP Product or equivalent level.
• Proven experience building and scaling fintech, payments, banking or financial technology products.
• Experience operating in a high growth, international environment.
• Demonstrated ability to build, develop and lead large product teams.
• Strong experience developing and executing long term product strategy.
• Experience taking products from concept through to large scale commercial adoption.
• Strong commercial understanding of product economics, monetisation and growth.
• Experience working directly with founders, CEOs and executive leadership.
• Strong understanding of technology and modern software/product development.
• Experience operating across multiple countries or regulatory environments.

Experience across areas such as cross-border payments, merchant payments, B2B fintech, digital banking, cards, FX, financial infrastructure or embedded finance would be particularly relevant.

Leadership Profile

We are looking for a CPO who is:

Strategic: capable of defining where the product needs to go over the next 3–5 years.

Commercial: understands that great products must create measurable business value.

Customer obsessed: deeply focused on solving genuine customer problems.

Technically credible: able to work effectively with CTOs, engineers, architects and data teams.

Operationally strong: capable of turning strategy into execution at scale.

Founder-minded: comfortable operating with ambiguity, speed and significant ownership.

International: experienced in building products for multiple markets and customer segments.

A strong people leader: able to attract, develop and retain exceptional product talent.

What Success Looks Like

In the first 12–18 months, the successful CPO will:

• Establish and execute a clear global product strategy.
• Build and strengthen the product organisation.
• Create a high quality and commercially focused product roadmap.
• Improve product development velocity and execution.
• Increase customer adoption and engagement.
• Identify and launch new growth opportunities.
• Strengthen the company's competitive position within fintech / payments.
• Establish a scalable product operating model capable of supporting international expansion.

Location

The successful candidate should be comfortable operating in an international environment and working with stakeholders across multiple markets and time zones.