Product - Banking Experience

Augustus; Berlin; On-site; EUR 134,000 - 179,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation support

Visa support

Latest Apple gear

Lunch benefit

Gym benefit

Beautiful office in the heart of the +

4x on-/offsites per year

Annual development budget

Comprehensive medical, dental, vision

401(k) retirement plan

Job summary

Augustus is building a programmable bank and is looking for a senior product leader to own Banking Experience—the accounts at the centre of the customer relationship and the API/dashboard they use to manage them.

You’ll define account structures and intuitive interfaces grounded in customer workflows, reporting to Will, Head of Product, collaborating closely with the CTO. You’ll operate autonomously on the roadmap and ship customer-focused projects.

Qualifications

• Experience end-to-end owning and building banking/fintech products.
• Able to spar on architectural decisions with engineers and discuss APIs.
• Experience with control planes, dashboards, or console products.
• Strong opinions on information architecture and organizing complex products.
• Comfortable in customer-facing roles – pitched, demoed, and closed early adopters.
• Based in New York or Berlin, or willing to relocate.

Responsibilities

• Own Banking Experience team roadmap and ways of working.
• Define and ship your first project.
• Unblock engineering daily and prioritize the roadmap.
• Ship accounts, API, and dashboard improvements.
• Evolve the roadmap based on customer feedback and partnerships.
• Work with live customers as deposits and accounts scale.

Skills

Banking product ownership

API design discussions

Customer-facing

Architecture discussions

Relocation willing

Tools

APIs

Dashboard tooling

CI/CD

Job description

Few people get to build a bank from scratch. Even fewer get to build one at a moment when banking itself is being reinvented.

The Dollar is the best product in the history of the world - there is infinite global demand. But International Fintechs and non-US banks are left with two unsatisfying options to access it: Either they build on legacy clearing banks that are slow and unreliable, or they interface with middleware providers that don’t move and hold the dollars directly, but themselves rely on underlying legacy banks. Augustus collapses this stack by combining two things: A real, national bank charter (in organization), and Marble, our proprietary core banking system, built around intelligence, made of code.

We are a group of operators, unicorn early employees, ex-founders and people who walked away from degrees because they believe this is an industry and career defining opportunity. We are backed with more than $200M from Peter Thiel’s Valar Ventures, Tiger Global, Hummingbird, QED, Creandum, and the founders of Nubank, Ramp, Deel, Circle, Fluidstack, Fuse, and n8n.

We are regulated in Europe and live with Euro and Stablecoin clearing today. Now, we are building the US team from the ground up, while continuing to grow rapidly in Europe.

The Role

You own Banking Experience: the accounts at the center of customer’s relationship with the bank, and the API and dashboards they use to manage them.

In this role you’re responsible for redefining what beautiful software in banking looks like. You’ll define account structures that give customers powerful building blocks for their products, and craft intuitive interfaces grounded in a deep understanding of their use cases and workflows.

You report to Will, Head of Product, and work closely with Simon, our CTO. You’re expected to operate with full autonomy on your team’s roadmap, collaborating with design and engineering.

Your First Six Months

• Months 1-2: Take over day-to-day ownership of the Banking Experience team - the roadmap, the ways of working, the hard decisions. Establish yourself with customers and how they use our accounts. You define and ship your first project.

• Months 3-4: Execution mode. You’re unblocking engineering daily, making hard prioritization calls, and shipping your roadmap to customers. You’re proactively raising the bar across accounts, API, and dashboard by feeding what you learn from customers into the product.

• Months 5-6: You’re working with live customers on the products you’ve built. Deposits and number of account holders are scaling. You’ve moved from execution to platform mode - evolving the roadmap based on what our customers are building on top of Augustus.

Who Will Thrive At Augustus

We believe throwing smart people with high agency at big problems produces the best outcomes. The people who succeed here share the following traits:

• Live Player: You don’t wait for a playbook and you don’t need one. You walk into genuinely new territory and figure it out. You move before anyone asked you to.

• Relentless: You don’t stop because it got hard or because no one is watching.

• Systems First: You don’t solve problems by adding people or effort. You build systems that make the problem smaller. Your first instinct is to automate.

• Genuine: You are caring and direct when it comes to the team and the mission.

This role is for you if:

• You want to spend time with customers to intimately understand and then innovate on their workflows.

• You’re a structured and relentless problem solver.

• You combine first-principles thinking with deep domain knowledge to make complex processes simple.

• You have taste and care deeply about the quality of what you build.

• You leverage AI to push the boundaries of what a PM can do.

• You’re excited about building a programmable bank and helping shape what that means.

Hard Requirements

• Experience end-to-end owning and building banking, fintech, or developer platform products.

• Technical enough to spar on architectural decisions with engineers - you’re comfortable in API design discussions, not just UI reviews.

• You have experience with control planes, dashboards, or console products at infrastructure, finance, or developer tools companies.

• You have strong opinions on information architecture and how to organize complex products so they feel simple

• Comfortable in customer-facing roles - you’ve pitched, demoed, and closed early adopters yourself.

• Based in New York or Berlin, or willing to relocate.

Pay transparency

Compensation packages at Augustus include base salary, equity, and benefits. New hire offers are made based on a candidate’s experience, expertise and geographic location. The annual US base salary range for this role is $150,000-$200,000 + equity.

What We Offer

• Career Growth: You will be given more responsibility and pushed to grow faster than ever before.

• Network: Your peers are brilliant, highly motivated people. These people will be foundational in your future opportunities.

• Real Participation: Employees are shareholders. You will think and act like an owner.

• Perks & Benefits: Relocation support, visa support, the latest Apple gear (MacBook + AirPods), lunch benefit, gym benefit, a beautiful office in the heart of the city, 4x on-/offsites per year, and an annual development budget.

Additional to the global benefits above, we offer localized benefits such as comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance and a 401(k) retirement plan for our US team.

Augustus is committed to creating an inclusive environment where people from all backgrounds can thrive and where different viewpoints and experiences are valued and respected. Augustus will consider all applications for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, national origin, religious beliefs, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, neurodiversity, disability, age, parental or veteran status.