VP of Product

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Job description

Mambu is the leading SaaS core banking engine. If you’re a customer of the largest digital bank in the EU, then you’ve probably interacted with our platform and didn't even know it. We are at the heart of what makes digital banks and lenders work - the system that processes banking transactions and updates accounts and other financial records from deposits to loans and credit balances. But we are different. We are not just cloud-native, lean and flexible - we are helping to revolutionise financial services globally. We are in a growth phase and we’ve only just begun.

To help us on our mission, we bring together people with the best skills and attitude. It doesn’t matter where you are from, what matters is the impact you have and your passion to make a difference.

We are looking for a passionate, skilled and enthusiastic VP of Product to join our team and serve as the product leader to evangelize product strategy and drive thought leadership throughout the core banking product organisation. Responsible for developing and executing on the strategic vision and product roadmap, as well as coaching, growing, and developing a diverse team of thoughtful Product Managers.

Your responsibilities will be:

1. Develop a Cohesive Strategy for Mambu Banking Platform

Explains the Why, Directs the What, and is Accountable for the delivery

Understands the implications of developing technology for the highly regulated banking industry

Defines the product portfolio vision and product strategy across multiple banking products

Creates and maintains a portfolio level view of the product roadmaps

Effectively communicates strategy to team members and executives

Works with the C-suite to set organisational goals for the teams, and deploy them to the right areas

Translates product strategy into inspiring vision which resonates across product, marketing, and sales

2. Architect Data-Driven Growth

Sustains company growth, expanding from $50M to $200M in the next few years

Collaborates with CPO/CTO, VP Eng and Sales Leadership to drive results

Understands the intricacies of geographic expansion and/or M&A strategy

Champions longer term thinking and responsible for major trade offs to achieve strategy and visions

3. Guides Individual Product Strategies

Contextualises a broad company vision to the individual product managers so that they can create a vision and roadmap for the product that is in line with larger goals

Ensures each product solves customer needs in a B2B growth environment, has well-defined business objectives and prioritisation frameworks

Helps PMs identify and foresee value proposition gaps and create short and long term product plans to address needs with clear, rational prioritisation

Advocates for technology advancement and composability of APIs, which are the building blocks for custom solutions

4. Advances Product Management practice

Develops current talent into outstanding product managers who understand customer needs, market trends, and have solid prioritization and communication skills

Directs the creation of processes and brings in tools which enable PMs to make informed decisions about their products

Plans, budgets, and recruits for open positions as the team expands

You have:

7-10 years experience in technology product management, with at least 5 years leading product teams in a dynamic organisation, preferably growing a product from $50M up

Minimum of 3 years experience in Banking / Fintech

Deep experience owning strategy, roadmaps, and understanding how to rally teams to execute upon a thorough long-term plan

Passion to lead a growing product organisation to create tools that make a difference for the modern banking industry

Ability to span product and technology with a mix of direct oversight and indirect influence

Willingness/flexibility to adapt to and shape evolving role over time

Experience in tightly collaborating with sales and marketing to understand trends/needs and enable high growth through product development

An understanding of sales, marketing, and financial operations to a high enough level that they can act as top-level advocate for evidence-based cross-functional decision making in the company

Passion to develop younger talent into exceptional product managers

Why Mambu?

Mambu has over 250+ live deployments, helping to revolutionise financial services in more than 46 countries globally, and we're just getting started;

We understand nothing ensures our customers' success more than a happy team, so Mambu is built on a culture of trust and a sense of ownership in everything we do;

Mambu proactively takes the initiative to improve the industry for the better;

Mambu is using top tool for development activities;

Because you want more, you want to know how your lines of code impact the world.

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Why Mambu?

About us

Mambuvians come from over 30 countries across six continents. Over the years we have become increasingly diverse in perspectives and ideas. To us, diversity is a company-wide value, and a strategy to boost productivity and to leave a positive, global impact on our industry. From Europe to Asia, and the Americas - Mambuvians are experts at collaborating globally.

We are a no nonsense company that loves a good challenge and is fostering a culture of a great work-life balance. Our perks range from a 4-day-working-week in summer, to extraordinary team getaways.

Building on collaboration and trust, we created a true ownership culture, which is integral to our success. We help and empower each other to make decisions that can have a lasting impact on our business, and influence thousands of customers and millions of their end users world-wide. Are you up for it?

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