Head of Product

The role

The Head of Product will own the product vision across an AI platform covering accounts receivable, accounts payable, and analytics. You will manage a team of product managers and designers while driving product strategy and AI implementation.

What you will do

• Own the product roadmap across AR, AP, and analytics
• Manage and grow a team of product managers and product designers
• Oversee product design scope across the organisation
• Work closely with PMs to sharpen PRDs and bring technical rigour to requirements
• Act as the bridge between product and engineering
• Define and own the future product vision for Alternative Payments
• Implement AI across the product organization as a product capability
• Propose and establish best practices for discovery, prioritization, documentation, and collaboration

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of product experience
• Meaningful time in financial technology (payments, lending, or money movement) or a vertical SaaS company with large payments revenue contribution
• Proven experience managing product managers and designers across a multi-product portfolio
• Technical enough to read a system design doc, challenge an engineering estimate, and help PMs write PRDs
• Fluency with AI as a product capability
• Conceptual depth with AI technology including familiarity with embeddings, RAG, and agent-based architectures
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice to have

• Experience managing design across an organization (product design + marketing design + sales collateral)
• Prior experience transitioning product ownership from a founder
• Track record of raising the technical floor in a PM team through coaching, process changes, or targeted hiring
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-ownership environment where the roadmap evolves quickly

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Equity opportunities
• Unlimited PTO
• Flexibility
• Yearly learning & development stipend

About the company

Alternative Payments is building the financial operating system for SMBs, consolidating the disconnected tech stack that holds service-based businesses back. They are expanding from accounts receivable into accounts payable and AI-powered analytics.