Product Manager Connections & Data Store

About the Job

We are hiring a Product Manager – Connections & Data Store to join Lean’s Product team.

This role owns the core platform that connects Lean to banks and open banking partners, and the systems that store, serve, and monitor financial data ’ll work at the intersection of engineering, banks, compliance, and clients to ensure our connectivity is reliable, scalable, and trusted.

You will partner closely with Engineering, QA, Platform Ops, and external bank teams. This is a technical product manager role. (no UI, no coding — but deep systems understanding required).

Lean has tripled in size over the past twelve months. We’re on track to triple again next year. What started as the region’s pioneering Open Finance platform is now becoming something bigger: a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA. We’re expanding into new markets, opening offices, acquiring businesses, and building capabilities that didn’t exist here before.

We’ve processed billions of dollars in transactions. We’re trusted by 350+ clients - from Tabby and Tas’heel to Hungerstation - and backed by General Catalyst, Sequoia, and Shorooq.

Lean has tripled in size over the past twelve months. We’re on track to triple again next year. What started as the region’s pioneering Open Finance platform is now becoming something bigger: a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA. We’re expanding into new markets, opening offices, acquiring businesses, and building capabilities that didn’t exist here before.

Lean has tripled in size over the past twelve months. We’re on track to triple again next year. What started as the region’s pioneering Open Finance platform is now becoming something bigger: a multi-product infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA. We’re expanding into new markets, opening offices, acquiring businesses, and building capabilities that didn’t exist here before.

• Responsible for maintaining & managing all Open Banking Bank Connections in both UAE & KSA markets.

• You will be responsible for improving bank conversion, stability, performance and monitoring across the connection funnel (redirects, consent creation, data freshness, latency).

• Drive measurable improvements in success rate, time-to-connect, error clarity, and reliability.

• Own bank relationships, you will be tasked with executing effective stakeholder management. Leveraging relationships with the bank tech teams, compliance/legal, and internal squads to remove blockers and build proactive partnerships.

• Lean’s Connection Platform! Partner tightly with Engineering and QA to deliver high-quality, resilient platform capabilities.

• Lead the policy and coordination effort with other stakeholders in the company to rally both central banks on critical & strategic open banking issues.

• Proven delivery on complex, integration-heavy products with external dependencies (banks, payments, telcos, identity providers).

• Strong technical PM foundation (you don’t code, but you get it):

  • APIs, OAuth2, mTLS

  • Webhooks vs polling, retries, rate limits, idempotency

  • SLAs/SLOs, error taxonomies, incident triage

• Comfortable with ambiguity, long dependency chains, and distributed ownership
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• Data-driven: funnels, metrics, dashboards, root cause analysis.

• Clear communicator who brings structure to messy problems and aligns teams without authority.

• Open Banking Data, Payments, or regulated systems experience

• Familiarity with consent journeys, SCA, redirect / App-to-App flows

• Experience working with compliance and standards-based ecosystems

NB. While we think the above experience could be important, we’re keen to hear from people that believe they have valuable experience to bring to the role. If you identify with the team and mission, but not all of our requirements, then please still apply!!

We’re building the financial infrastructure for MENA. Not as a slogan, as a fact.

Since 2019, we’ve become the first regulated Open Banking and Open Finance company operating across the UAE and Saudi Arabia. We’ve…