Founding Technical PM: AI-Driven Payments

Zebra People; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Zebra People partners with a well-funded, early-stage payments technology startup to recruit its first Product hire. You’ll work with the founders to shape products spanning native mobile apps, merchant software, payment hardware and self-service kiosks.

Hybrid working, with the team near Tower Bridge and typically in the office around four days per week. You’ll balance product thinking with technical execution and own ideas from ambiguous concepts through to launch.

Qualifications

• Around 2-5 years' experience in Product Management, Product Ownership or Software Engineering.
• Strong hands-on technical experience, ideally started as a Full Stack Engineer.
• Experience launching products from 0-1 in startup or fast-paced environment.
• Strong understanding of APIs, databases, integrations and system architecture.
• Experience using AI tools to prototype, build, iterate and ship products.
• Comfortable working directly with founders, engineers and customers.

Responsibilities

• Owning the product roadmap, balancing customer needs, commercial priorities and technical considerations
• Taking products from 0-1, leading discovery, prototyping, validation and launch
• Working closely with founders, engineers and customers to shape product direction
• Using AI tools to prototype, build and iterate on new features and internal tools
• Collaborating with engineers on APIs, system architecture, integrations and technical trade-offs
• Writing clear product requirements, user stories and acceptance criteria to enable fast, high-quality delivery
• Managing priorities and driving delivery from concept through to launch
• Working with external partners, including payment providers and hardware vendors, to deliver seamless integrations
• Continuously learning from customer feedback, usage data and experimentation to improve the product and prioritise what to build next

Skills

Python

SQL

JavaScript

Job description

Zebra People partners with a well-funded, early-stage payments technology startup to recruit its first Product hire. You’ll work with the founders to shape products spanning native mobile apps, merchant software, payment hardware and self-service kiosks.

Hybrid working, with the team near Tower Bridge and typically in the office around four days per week. You’ll balance product thinking with technical execution and own ideas from ambiguous concepts through to launch.