Product Lead (Líder de Producto) - LATAM

The role

The Product Lead is responsible for the product direction of a small, autonomous squad. You will decide what to build, why it matters, and evaluate results while owning business outcomes.

What you will do

• Decide what to build and why it matters
• Take responsibility for business results
• Prototype ideas with AI tools before committing engineering time
• Contribute code for simple changes like text, configurations, feature flags, and basic UI updates
• Work with Git daily, clone repositories, create branches, make commits, and read diffs
• Read code to understand PRs
• Perform product judgment, discovery, and stakeholder alignment
• Manage stakeholders in engineering, design, sales, and leadership

Required qualifications

• 5+ years in product management, product engineering, product design, or a hybrid building role
• History of delivering products that moved business metrics
• Experience working directly with engineers as peers
• Experience building something in production on your own
• Ability to prototype a functional concept using AI tools (Cursor, Claude Code or similar)
• Comfortable with Git: cloning repositories, creating branches, making commits, reading diffs
• Ability to read code enough to understand what a PR does
• Understanding of system architecture regarding service communication and data storage
• Strong discovery skills to identify the right problem
• Data literacy with SQL, dashboards, and experiment design
• Clear written communicator for one-pagers
• Advanced English is indispensable

Nice to have

• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a technical area
• Ability to produce near-production code for simple changes using AI tools
• Experience building products with AI
• Experience in fintech, enterprise, or domains requiring complex systemic 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 several investors including Goldman Sachs.