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Airtm is seeking a senior Product Manager to define and execute the roadmap for AI- and blockchain-enabled financial products serving the online-work economy. The role combines product strategy, customer and market research, backlog prioritization, and hands-on delivery with engineering, design, legal, compliance, commercial, growth, and marketing teams. Candidates need at least five years of product management experience, ideally in fintech, SaaS, blockchain, or crypto, plus demonstrated success launching consumer-facing products. The position emphasizes practical use of AI tools, strong analytical judgment, customer obsession, and comfort operating in a fast-moving, ambiguous startup environment.
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I would begin with user research and payment-journey data to identify the highest-friction, highest-frequency problems. I would validate solution concepts with users and compliance stakeholders, define measurable outcomes such as activation, successful cash-out rate, support-contact reduction, or retention, and prioritize initiatives by user impact, risk, effort, and strategic fit. I would then phase the roadmap from a compliant MVP through experimentation and scaled rollout.
I use a portfolio approach: protect capacity for strategic platform investments while reserving a defined portion for near-term experiments and critical customer issues. Each initiative needs an explicit hypothesis, success metric, owner, and decision date. This makes tradeoffs visible and allows the team to stop low-performing work quickly without losing sight of foundational capabilities.
I would involve legal and compliance at discovery rather than treating them as late-stage approvers. Together, we would map jurisdictions, user flows, custody and transaction risks, required controls, disclosures, and operational processes. I would convert those requirements into product constraints and acceptance criteria, document decisions, and use staged releases to validate both user value and control effectiveness.
I use AI tools to accelerate research synthesis, organize customer-feedback themes, draft first-pass specifications, identify competitor patterns, and create structured experiment plans. I validate outputs against source material, protect sensitive information, and retain human judgment for prioritization and decisions. The goal is to reduce administrative time and increase the quality and speed of product learning.
I would define a metric tree covering adoption, activation, successful task completion, transaction reliability, retention, and unit economics. For a payments feature, I would also monitor failure rates, time to completion, support contacts, fraud or compliance signals, and customer satisfaction. I would segment results by market and user cohort to ensure aggregate growth is not masking poor experiences for key customers.
About us:
Airtm is a financial-infrastructure company building the future of the online-work economy. We are on a mission to empower the world’s growing number of Digital Entrepreneurs in the Global South, giving them the financial freedom to thrive.
The problem is clear: in emerging markets, accessing the dollar economy is difficult. Cross-border payments are slow, expensive, and often lose value to inflation. This limits the potential of millions of talented individuals.
Airtm’s solution is a swift and comprehensive financial platform that facilitates low-value cross-border payments and local cash-outs. As pioneers in stablecoin-payment infrastructure, Airtm has built the most advanced cross-border payment system available on the market.
As a company married to the world of online work, Airtm will go beyond payments to build the necessary infrastructure the online-work economy needs to thrive. We are fostering an entirely new economy, giving individuals, communities, and countries the tools to take control of their financial destinies.
About the role:
This is a high-impact role for someone who can connect vision with execution. You’ll shape the roadmap, align cross-functional teams, and build scalable solutions involving blockchain products, leveraging AI to solve critical needs for our users and move faster than the competition.
Key Responsibilities
Define a long-term product vision aligned with Airtm’s mission and goals.
Conduct structured customer and market research to deeply understand pain points and opportunities.
Translate vision into a realistic, high-leverage roadmap and backlog that balances short-term growth with long-term scalability.
Collaborate with engineering, design, legal, compliance, and commercial teams to build and ship features that drive user adoption.
Work closely with growth and marketing to accelerate go-to-market adoption and unlock new revenue streams.
Identify and champion opportunities to embed AI powered capabilities directly into the product, from intelligent automation and personalization to surfacing insights that help users make better financial decisions.
Use AI tools actively in your day-to-day workflow for research, spec writing, competitive analysis, data synthesis and help raise the bar for how the broader team works.
Qualifications
5+ years of Product Management experience, ideally in blockchain, fintech or SaaS companies
Proven success building and launching consumer facing products
Experience in agile environments with cross-functional global teams
Strong product intuition backed by analytical rigor
Familiarity with crypto, stablecoins, wallets, or blockchain infrastructure
Active, practical experience with AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Perplexity, Notion AI, or equivalents)
You’ll be a great fit if you are
A confident, data driven, force of nature that knows how to move the needle in a high growth start-up environment.
A strategic thinker who can zoom out to market dynamics and zoom in to execution.
Genuinely excited about blockchain and crypto.
A natural collaborator who communicates clearly across functions and levels.
Hands-on with AI tools and always experimenting with what’s next.
Highly analytical, but equally comfortable navigating ambiguity and taking ownership.
Customer-obsessed, with a strong sense of product-market fit and value delivery.
Skilled at balancing long-term bets with short-term wins.
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