Product Lead (Líder de Producto) - LATAM

The role

A Product Lead owns the product direction for a small, autonomous squad. You will decide what to build, prototype ideas with AI tools, and contribute code for straightforward changes to unblock yourself.

What you will do

• Own product direction for a small, autonomous squad
• Decide what to build, why it matters, and whether it worked
• Be accountable for business outcomes
• Prototype ideas with AI tools before committing engineering time
• Contribute code for straightforward changes like copy, config, feature flags, and simple UI updates
• Work in Git daily, clone repos, create branches, push commits, and read diffs
• Perform product discovery and stakeholder alignment
• Hold architectural conversations with engineers

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in product management, product engineering, product design, or a hybrid building role
• Track record of shipping products that moved business metrics
• Experience working directly with engineers as peers
• Built something in production yourself
• Can prototype a working concept using AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar)
• Comfortable with Git: cloning repos, creating branches, pushing commits, reading diffs
• Can read code well enough to follow what a PR does and ask good questions about it
• Understand system architecture regarding how services talk to each other and where data lives
• Strong discovery skills
• Data literate: comfortable with SQL, dashboards, and experiment design
• Clear written communicator
• Stakeholder management across engineering, design, sales, and leadership

Nice to have

• CS, engineering, or technical degree
• Can produce near-production-ready code for straightforward changes using AI tools
• Experience building AI-powered products
• Experience in fintech, enterprise, or domains requiring complex systems thinking
• Experience in high-growth startups

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Stock options (ESOP) from day one
• Annual learning budget
• Accelerated development paths

About the company

Clara is the leading platform in Latin America for companies to execute and manage every payment operation. It is a team of ~400 people backed by Notable Capital, Coatue, Kaszek, monashees, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs.