Principal Product Manager - Payroll Fintech Connectivty

Medium; Remote; SAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company in Saudi Arabia is seeking a Principal Product Manager to lead connectivity initiatives in payroll and finance. This role involves owning product initiatives that facilitate money movement across countries and ensure regulatory compliance. Candidates should have strong product management experience, particularly in complex, data-driven systems, along with excellent communication skills. The position offers competitive compensation, stock opportunities, and a flexible, remote-first work environment.

Benefits

Competitive compensation

Stock grant opportunities

Flexible work environment

Scalable benefits and perks

Qualifications

• Strong product management fundamentals with experience owning complex, cross-functional systems.
• Experience working with integrations, APIs, platform capabilities, or data-heavy workflows.
• Nice to have experience in payroll, payments, invoicing, or financial systems.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve core payroll-to-payments connectivity and financial orchestration capabilities.
• Define how payroll data is structured, exposed, and consumed.
• Lead complex fintech initiatives from problem discovery through delivery.

Skills

Product management fundamentals

B2B SaaS experience

Fintech knowledge

Experience with integrations and APIs

Excellent communication skills

Comfort in fast-moving environments

Job description

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Principal Product Manager – Payroll Fintech Connectivity in Saudi Arabia.

This role sits at the core of a global payroll and fintech ecosystem, owning the connectivity between payroll data, invoicing, funding, and payment systems. You will lead high-impact product initiatives that enable accurate, transparent, and scalable money movement across multiple countries and currencies. Working in a highly cross-functional and remote-first environment, you will collaborate closely with engineering, finance, payroll operations, and payments teams. The position offers deep exposure to complex, data-heavy systems and real-world financial workflows. Your work will directly improve trust, visibility, and reliability across payroll and payments. This is an opportunity to shape foundational fintech capabilities that impact millions of workers globally.

Accountabilities

• Own and evolve core payroll-to-payments connectivity and financial orchestration capabilities
• Define how payroll data is structured, exposed, and consumed for invoicing, funding, and downstream systems
• Lead complex fintech initiatives from problem discovery through delivery, iteration, and measurement
• Partner closely with engineering on data models, APIs, integrations, and system design decisions
• Collaborate with payroll operations, payments operations, and finance to incorporate real-world constraints
• Improve visibility into payroll cost changes, adjustments, reconciliations, and variances
• Enable monitoring, alerting, and early-warning signals for payroll and payment-related issues
• Align multiple product and operational teams around shared priorities, trade-offs, and delivery plans
• Communicate progress, risks, and decisions clearly to stakeholders and senior leadership

Requirements

• Strong product management fundamentals with experience owning complex, cross-functional systems
• Background in B2B SaaS, fintech, or highly operational, data-driven products
• Experience working with integrations, APIs, platform capabilities, or data-heavy workflows
• to reason through trade-offs across product, technical, and operational constraints
• Excellent communication skills with confidence influencing across teams and senior stakeholders
• Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments with high ownership
• Nice to have experience in payroll, payments, invoicing, or financial systems
• Nice to have exposure to regulated, multi-country, or compliance-heavy product environments
• Experience operating at Staff or Lead Product Manager level is a plus

Benefits

• Competitive compensation aligned with role, experience, and location
• Stock grant opportunities depending on role, employment status, and country
• Flexible, remote-first work environment with optional coworking access
• Scalable benefits and perks tailored to local employment conditions
• Opportunity to work on globally impactful products at the intersection of payroll and fintech
• Inclusive culture with strong emphasis on autonomy, growth, and collaboration

Why Apply Through Jobgether?

We use an AI-powered matching process to ensure your application is reviewed quickly, objectively, and fairly against the role's core requirements. Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company. The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

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