Founding Product Lead, Accounts and Cards

You are sitting at the intersection of payments infrastructure, regulated financial accounts, and consumer UX. You have to make all three feel simple to the end user.

• The system moves money across multiple asset classes with different latency models (real-time card spend, T+2 equities, on-chain crypto)

• The regulatory environment is multi-region and constantly shifting

• The UX has to feel like a neobank but sit on top of institutional-grade infrastructure

• You are not the only product leader here. You need to build coherently with crypto, trading, and investing squads without losing domain ownership

WHAT YOU OWN •

activation, first funding, first transaction

You own this end-to-end. Strategy, discovery, requirements, delivery, metrics. Not just the roadmap.

WHAT SUCCESS LOOKS LIKE

• Users fund their account and keep assets inside the platform (not just passing through)

• Card becomes a daily touchpoint, not an occasional feature

• Money movement across the system is fast, reliable, and invisible to the user

• Activation and funding rates improve quarter over quarter with clear causal attribution

WHAT THIS IS NOT

• A role where product strategy gets handed to you

• A mature team with defined processes. You will help define them.

• A single-market, single-product environment

• A company where "Head of Product" means managing a backlog

COMPENSATION AND STRUCTURE

• UAE-based remote contract

• Competitive performance-linked compensation

• Market-standard benefits

HIRING PROCESS

• 30-min screening call

• Strategic product case: how you think about systems and trade-offs

• Leadership and fit interview with CEO and CTO

• Offer

Required

• 8+ years in product, with meaningful time in fintech, payments, banking, or adjacent domains

• Direct experience owning at least one of: core banking / wallet infrastructure, card products, payment flows at scale

• Ability to operate at system level — you understand APIs, transaction flows, and event-driven architecture well enough to make good product decisions and challenge engineering assumptions

• Track record of owning outcomes, not features: activation rates, funding rates, transaction volumes — not just shipped features

• High autonomy: you define the problem, not just solve the one handed to you

Strong signal

• Experience at a multi-product fintech platform (Nubank, Revolut, Wise, Mercado Pago, Neon, C6, or equivalent)

• Experience navigating multi-region regulatory environments

• Built or scaled a card product with real engagement metrics behind it

Originally posted on Himalayas