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, why it matters, and whether it worked while being accountable for business outcomes. You will prototype ideas with AI tools and contribute code for straightforward changes.

What you will do

• Own the 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, suitable for engineer review and merge
• 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
• An 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.