Produt Manager

This is a 12-month contract, with the potential to renew for a further 2 years
Rate: USD $700 to 800 per day

We have partnered on an exciting greenfield bank build in the UAE, and we are hiring a Product Owner for the Retail Payments pod, covering domestic account-to-account payments, cards and cross-border remittances. It is a critical-path hire and a hands-on role, not project or programme management.

• Co-own the product with the Business Owner and make the daily trade-offs on what gets built and in what order
• Write the BRDs, PRDs, payment flows, epics, user stories and acceptance criteria, and own sign-off
• Drive onboarding to UAE payment rails and card schemes, through testing, certification and go-live
• Design the customer payment journey, including limits, fraud and sanctions checks, returns and disputes
• Manage the payments hub, card processor and remittance partners on scope, integration, pricing and SLAs

• Has owned a payments product from zero, or through a major re-platform, at a bank, as Product Owner or digital owner and not as a project manager
• Hands-on experience in account-to-account transfers, instant payments, cards or remittances, with the full payment lifecycle from initiation to reconciliation
• Strongly preferred: UAE rails experience (Aani, UAEFTS, UAEDDS, ICCS, WPS), CBUAE connectivity and certification, and recent UAE retail or digital bank experience
• Has worked across Tech, Ops, Risk and Compliance in a bank, and can run several work streams at once