Product Manager - Financial Operations📣 Job Ad

About the Role

This position is offered on behalf of a partner company that manages all applications and next steps. The partner company is looking for a Product Manager - Financial Operations to be based in Saudi Arabia. This role is pivotal to the global payments infrastructure, with a focus on the development and evolution of systems that enable merchants to understand, control, and optimize their financial operations at scale.

Role Responsibilities

You will be responsible for a specific sub-area within the Financial Operations product, defining how complex workflows such as settlements, disputes, foreign exchange (FX), and reconciliations are managed across a global platform. The role requires a blend of strategic oversight and detailed operational understanding, and it requires you to translate complex financial and business signals into a clear product direction. You will collaborate closely with engineering, design, and go-to-market teams in a highly collaborative, remote-first environment. Your decisions will directly impact how merchants conduct financial transactions across different markets and currencies. This is a high-ownership role where clarity, precision, and accountability are paramount.

Key Tasks

• Own a dedicated sub-area of the Financial Operations product, defining its vision, roadmap, and desired outcomes across multiple quarters.
• Identify and articulate the most critical problems to solve by synthesizing merchant feedback, support data, operational challenges, and system constraints.
• Independently prioritize and define initiatives, making informed trade-offs between scope, quality, technical debt, and delivery timelines.
• Develop clear and detailed product specifications that accurately account for complex edge cases, including settlement cut-offs, dispute resolution workflows, and FX scenarios.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to assess feasibility, navigate technical trade-offs, and define key success metrics, including leading and lagging indicators.
• Lead end-to-end product delivery, ensuring launch readiness, stakeholder alignment, and post-launch iteration based on data and feedback.
• Represent your product area internally and externally, effectively translating operational complexities into clear product decisions and compelling narratives.

Required Qualifications

• Proven experience owning a product area or significant feature set end-to-end, with a tangible impact on business or customer outcomes.
• Strong ability to independently identify problems from ambiguous or incomplete input, without relying on fully structured briefs.
• Clear experience in making independent trade-offs across scope, quality, and technical complexity.
• Strong technical fluency enabling effective collaboration with engineering teams on architecture, feasibility, and integration decisions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to align cross-functional teams and proactively identify risks.
• Strong analytical mindset, with the ability to leverage data to define, track, and evaluate product success metrics.

Additional Skills

• Product vision and roadmap definition
• Problem identification and prioritization
• Detailed product specification development
• Engineering collaboration and technical fluency
• End-to-end product delivery and stakeholder alignment
• Data analysis and analytical mindset
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Experience in payments, fintech, or financial operations such as settlements, disputes, ledgers, treasury, or FX is a plus.

Additional Information About the Work Environment

This is a full-time, remote-first position. The role requires 5-10 years of experience. The company offers a fully remote and globally distributed work environment, competitive compensation and equity options, unlimited PTO with a minimum encouraged 25 days, private medical insurance (location dependent), access to co-working spaces and global remote work opportunities, annual company meetups and in-person gatherings, a learning and development budget, and home office setup support with high-quality equipment. Additional benefits may be available depending on location.

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