Head of Product & Engineering Delivery

Marathon; Ciudad de México; Híbrido; MXN 2.407.000 - 3.439.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Mattilda, a Latin America–focused education fintech, is seeking a Head of Product & Engineering Delivery to lead cross‑functional execution across MX, CO, EC markets. You’ll build delivery rigor, align squads, and reduce unplanned work while maintaining trust and high quality.

This senior role demands systems thinking, strong judgment, and fluency in Spanish and English, with responsibility for planning, dependencies, and release readiness across Payments, Billing, SIS, and integrations.

Formación

• 7+ years in delivery leadership or related senior roles
• Experience coordinating multiple squads in SaaS, fintech, or mission-critical environments
• Strong understanding of product development lifecycles, agile practices, and release management
• Proven ability to manage complex dependencies across technical and non-technical teams
• Comfort working with APIs, services, integrations, and data flows
• Strong facilitation, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills
• Data-driven and outcome-oriented mindset
• Ability to hold teams accountable while maintaining trust and psychological safety
• Fluency in Spanish and English

Responsabilidades

• Review delivery health across squads, initiatives, and markets
• Partner with Product Managers and Engineering Leads to plan high-confidence execution
• Identify and resolve execution bottlenecks, dependencies, and delivery risks
• Ensure high-quality requirements, acceptance criteria, and definitions of ready/done
• Coordinate release readiness and go/no-go decisions for critical systems
• Surface risks early and escalates decisively when trust, revenue, or quality is at risk
• Continuously improve delivery processes, tooling, and operating cadence

Descripción del empleo

About the job Head of Product & Engineering Delivery

Head of Product & Engineering Delivery

Location: Flexible

Reports to: Chief Product & Technology Officer (CPTO)

About Mattilda

Mattilda is building the finance-first operating system for education in Latin America. We help 1,000+ schools across Mexico, Colombia, and Ecuador manage payments, billing, academic operations, and financial products in a single platform. With $89M raised, were scaling rapidly to transform how educational institutions operate.

Our mission is to help schools operate with clarity, accuracy, and confidence—powered by technology and AI. Achieving this mission requires not only strong product vision, but exceptional execution discipline across Product and Engineering.

The Opportunity

Mattilda operates in a mission-critical environment where delivery failures directly impact customer trust, revenue, and regulatory confidence. Payments, billing, reconciliation, integrations, and SIS workflows must ship predictably, safely, and at high quality.

As the platform scales across multiple countries and integrates new systems, execution complexity has grown significantly. We need a senior leader focused exclusively on ensuring that what we commit to actually gets delivered—reliably and repeatedly.

This role exists to professionalize delivery as a first-class capability:

• Reduce firefighting and unplanned work
• Improve predictability across squads and initiatives
• Surface delivery risks early and resolve them decisively
• Enable teams to move faster without breaking trust

This is a high-impact role for someone who thrives in complexity and brings structure, clarity, and calm to large, cross-functional systems.

What Youll Lead

Your focus will be on delivery excellence across Product & Engineering.

You will lead execution to:

• Ensure clear planning, realistic commitments, and reliable follow-through
• Drive cross-squad alignment and dependency management across:
  • Payments and reconciliation
  • Billing and invoicing
  • SIS and third-party integrations (e.g., Algebraix, Idukay)
  • Platform, QA, and reliability initiatives
• Define and enforce delivery readiness standards for mission-critical releases
• Reduce unplanned work, last-minute scope changes, and reactive firefighting
• Create shared visibility into delivery health, risks, and progress

What Youll Do Day to Day

• Review delivery health across squads, initiatives, and markets (MX, CO, EC)
• Partner with Product Managers and Engineering Leads to plan high-confidence execution
• Identify and resolve execution bottlenecks, dependencies, and delivery risks
• Ensure high-quality requirements, acceptance criteria, and definitions of ready/done
• Coordinate release readiness and go/no-go decisions for critical systems
• Surface risks early and escalates decisively when trust, revenue, or quality is at risk
• Continuously improve delivery processes, tooling, and operating cadence

Who You Are

Were looking for a senior execution leader who combines systems thinking, delivery rigor, and strong judgment.

• 7+ years in delivery leadership, product operations, technical program management, or senior agile roles
• Experience coordinating multiple squads in SaaS, fintech, or mission-critical environments
• Strong understanding of product development lifecycles, agile practices, and release
• management
• Proven ability to manage complex dependencies across technical and non-technical teams
• Comfort working with technical concepts such as APIs, services, integrations, and data
• flows
• Strong facilitation, communication, and cross-functional leadership skills
• Data-driven and outcome-oriented mindset
• Ability to hold teams accountable while maintaining trust and psychological safety
• Full professional proficiency in Spanish and English

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fintech, payments, billing, or financial operations platforms
• Familiarity with multi-country delivery environments in Latin America
• Experience working through periods of scale, transformation, or post-acquisition
• integration
• Exposure to QA automation, reliability engineering, or platform modernization initiatives
• Familiarity with delivery analytics or AI-enabled operational insights

Youre a Great FitIf You...

• Care deeply about reliability, predictability, and execution quality
• Enjoy fixing systems rather than micromanaging people
• Are comfortable holding strong lines on delivery readiness and quality
• Think in cross-team, end-to-end execution rather than isolated sprints
• Thrive in high-impact, high-accountability environments

Why This Role Matters

Mattildas success depends on our ability to execute consistently in areas where failure is not an option.

This role ensures that:

• Product ambition translates into reliable execution
• Engineering teams can move fast without breaking trust
• Leadership has clear visibility into delivery risk and progress

You will build the execution backbone of Mattilda as we scale across Latin America and become the system of record for education finance.

Travel: Occasional travel to Mexico City for team onsite sessions