About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Technical Product Lead - AI Finance App based in the United States.
Responsibilities
- Own a product vertical end-to-end, including product strategy, desired outcomes, success metrics, roadmap, prioritization, delivery, and launch.
- Work closely with engineering teams to shape technical solutions across APIs, system architecture, data flows, databases, ledgering, reconciliation, security, scalability, and failure management.
- Make deliberate trade-offs across product correctness, delivery speed, cost, reliability, regulatory requirements, operational complexity, and user experience.
- Embed regulatory and compliance requirements directly into product design, including KYC, transaction monitoring, transaction limits, privacy, licensing, and other applicable controls.
- Identify opportunities to apply AI where it can materially improve outcomes while establishing clear evaluation frameworks, safeguards, human oversight, reliability standards, and failure-handling mechanisms.
- Lead product delivery in environments with external dependencies, including regulatory approvals, financial infrastructure, payment rails, and third-party partners.
- Align Engineering, Design, Compliance, Operations, Treasury, and Finance around product decisions, priorities, launch criteria, and expected outcomes.
- Drive products from zero-to-one where appropriate, moving quickly while ensuring critical technical, regulatory, and operational gates are met.
- Ensure financial products behave predictably and transparently, with accurate money movement and clear communication about the status of customer funds.
- Establish clear roadmaps and decision frameworks that enable teams to move quickly while maintaining reliability, trust, and accountability.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex, technical products from strategy through production.
- Strong technical foundation across system architecture, APIs, databases, workflows, distributed systems, and failure modes.
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with engineers, review and challenge technical designs, and contribute meaningfully to architectural discussions.
- Experience in payments, banking, remittance, insurance, trading, fintech, or another regulated and high-consequence product environment.
- Strong product judgment, with the ability to make difficult decisions and balance technical, regulatory, operational, commercial, and customer considerations.
- Experience developing products with LLMs or other AI technologies, including an understanding of evaluation, reliability, safeguards, and appropriate use cases.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to operate effectively when requirements or information are incomplete.
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to align technical and non-technical stakeholders around clear decisions and priorities.
- High ownership, execution speed, and comfort operating in a distributed, international, and fast-changing environment.
- Engineering experience or a highly technical product background is a plus.
- Experience building zero-to-one fintech or consumer products is desirable.
- Experience defining evaluation frameworks for machine learning or LLM-powered products is an advantage.
- Strong English communication skills are required, as English is the primary working language across global teams.
Conditions
- Fully remote role with the opportunity to work globally across multiple countries and time zones.
- Flexible environment designed for collaboration across a distributed international team.
- High level of ownership and autonomy over a product vertical and its strategic direction.
- Opportunity to build innovative AI-powered financial products across payments, remittance, insurance, wealth, and trading.
- Direct exposure to complex technical, regulatory, and financial challenges with significant product impact.
- Fast-moving interview and hiring process, with strong candidates potentially completing the process and receiving an offer within approximately one week.
- Opportunity to work alongside an international team representing more than 20 nationalities and a broad range of perspectives.
- Practical and technical assessments designed to evaluate candidates through real-world problem solving and product expertise.