Product Manager (Banking)

Onsite | Dubai, UAE | 12 Months (Extendable) Please apply only if you are eligible to work in the UAE and available onsite in Dubai for a minimum of 12 months. We are hiring a Product Manager to work on a project for one of our clients, a leading regional payments provider. This is a build-to-scale product role on one of the more interesting mandates in the region right now: bringing a new stablecoin-enabled cross-border payments proposition to market for business customers, with the goal of making international payments and collections faster, cheaper, and simpler for small and medium-sized businesses. You will own the product end to end, from requirements through launch and into commercial adoption, coordinating the client, a technology platform partner, and the wider payments ecosystem to ship a live, scaling product. This is genuinely one of the region’s first real-world uses of regulated stablecoin rails, so it suits someone who wants to be at the front of that rather than maintaining something already built. We are looking for someone with 10+ years in product management, including at least 5 years on cross-border payments, multi-currency accounts, payouts, or embedded finance, and at least one 0-to-1 launch they took through to commercial adoption. The work itself Owning the product is the core. You will define and prioritise the requirements, use cases, customer journeys, and roadmap, translating real customer needs into prioritised, testable requirements for stablecoin-enabled cross-border payments, collections, and payouts. Coordinating the launch runs alongside it. You will keep a single integrated plan across business, technology, and partner teams, managing milestones, dependencies, and decision points, and surfacing and resolving risks before they move launch dates. You will provide product-led oversight of the platform integration, resolving requirements, design, and integration questions without doing the development work yourself. Getting to go-live is a major part of the mandate. You will lead the business and product inputs into testing, UAT, operational readiness, and post-launch stabilisation, including the compliance checkpoints that come with this territory: KYC and KYB, AML, and Travel Rule. Commercialisation carries real weight here, not as an afterthought. You will shape pricing inputs, build go-to-market materials, enable sales and onboarding teams, support merchant acquisition, and track activation and usage once the product is live. Throughout, you will measure and iterate. You will set up product KPIs and feedback loops, use the data to refine features, pricing, and customer experience, and keep senior stakeholders clear on where things stand through concise updates, decision papers, and risk escalations. What you need to have Mandatory: 10+ years in product management, including at least 5 years on cross-border payments, multi-currency accounts, payouts, or embedded-finance products At least one 0-to-1 payments product taken from build through go-live and into commercial scale-up Experience in a regulated financial-services environment: acquiring, PSP, EMI, bank, or licensed fintech Cross-border payments domain knowledge: money movement, FX, and settlement Clear written and verbal communication, including turning technical topics into business decisions for senior audiences Eligibility to work in the UAE, with immediate availability Preferred: Working knowledge of stablecoins, digital-asset wallets, and fiat on/off-ramps Acquiring, PSP, merchant-services, or B2B payments experience, ideally serving SMEs, marketplaces, or platforms Familiarity with API-based payment platforms, payment orchestration, and reconciliation tools An understanding of UAE and GCC regulatory expectations for payments and virtual assets (for example VARA and Central Bank of the UAE frameworks) Agile delivery experience (Scrum/Kanban) and product tooling such as Jira or Confluence; CSPO, PMP, or SAFe certification is a plus The kind of person we want You should be a product manager who is comfortable owning something from a blank page through to paying customers, and steady enough to do it across a client, a platform partner, and a wider ecosystem without losing the plot or the plan. You should be able to make decisions with incomplete information and move quickly, without cutting corners on quality or compliance, which matters more than usual in a regulated, virtual-asset context. And you should be able to carry a senior audience with you, turning technical complexity into clear business decisions. What success looks like On-time go-live against agreed milestones, with critical defects closed before launch Strong merchant onboarding conversion, from applied through approved to live Onboarded merchants actually transacting within the first 30, 60, and 90 days Growing cross-border payment volume and transaction count after launch Payment success rate and settlement times hitting target A short, healthy loop from customer feedback to roadmap decision Show more Show less