Product Director - Payment & Banking

P2P; Dubai; On-site; AED 300,000 - 400,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Dubai seeks a seasoned Product Director to drive product initiatives and manage relationships with US partners. This role requires at least 10 years of fintech product management experience and a strong understanding of US payment systems. The ideal candidate will have a passion for creating customer-facing products and collaborating with cross-functional teams to deliver industry-changing solutions.

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years in fintech product management.
• Experience with US payment systems and cash clearing networks is advantageous.
• Ability to manage C-level stakeholders and articulate decisions.

Responsibilities

• Create and maintain the team's roadmap and milestones.
• Define features, write product specifications, and manage the backlog.
• Interview customers to ensure their needs are met.
• Collaborate with design, frontend, and backend teams to deliver features.

Skills

Fintech product management experience

Understanding of US payment systems

Attention to detail

Stakeholder management

Collaboration with cross-functional teams

Job description

Our Product Management team drives product initiatives from inception through execution, launching products/features across our global footprint. We collaborate closely with engineers, designers, analysts, marketers, and other cross-functional team members to ship remarkable features and products.

About the role: The Cash team deals with money movement and transfers. We work with banks, fintechs, wallets to enable our users to move money seamlessly into and out of our platform.

We are looking for a seasoned and hands-on Product Director who has the vision, drive and ability to own, create, implement and manage an industry-changing platform that helps change the way users deal with money.

This role in particular is focused on US partners and hence an in-depth understanding of US banking regulations and practices is a huge advantage.

Job Responsibilities:

• Work closely with the business to create, maintain and communicate the team’s roadmap, milestones, and dependencies with strategic priorities in mind
• Deliver complex projects by defining features, write product specifications, user studies, iterate on feedback, review QA test plans, prioritize bug fixes, manage the backlog, and ultimately ship products/features in a timely manner
• Interview and interact with customers to build empathy, ensuring that their needs are met
• Prioritize initiatives and projects appropriately and weigh tradeoffs that must be made
• Work closely with teams such as design, frontend and backend to deliver features that are first-in-class
• Constantly understand market development and dynamics to ensure our products and features are best-in-class
• Represent the team in communication with cross-functional teams

Job Requirements:

• At least 10 years of fintech product management experience, domain knowledge in US payment systems and cash clearing networks a huge advantage
• Good aptitude for understanding technical APIs and translating them to how they impact user stories is preferred
• Hands-on and astute attention to detail especially in settlement flow design
• A data-informed work style, viewed through a compassionate lens of the user
• A passion for building delightful customer-facing products and experiences
• trong work ethic and willingness to go the extra mile to meet tight delivery timelines and goals where necessary
• Ability to manage C-level stakeholders and clearly articulate prioritization decisions and considerations
• Demonstrated leadership, taking ownership and producing results
• The ability to collaborate well with designers, engineers, QA, Marketing, compliance, growth
• Bring humility to your work and how you work with others