Product Manager (6 months)

About Thunes

Thunes is the Smart Superhighway to move money around the world. Thunes’ proprietary Direct Global Network allows Members to make payments in real-time in over 130 countries and more than 80 currencies.

Thunes’ network connects directly to over 7 billion mobile wallets and bank accounts worldwide, as well as 15 billion cards via more than 320 different payment methods, such as GCash, M-Pesa, Airtel, MTN, Orange, JazzCash, Easypaisa, AliPay, WeChat Pay and many more.

Thunes’ Direct Global Network differentiates itself through its worldwide reach, in-house SmartX Treasury System and Fortress Compliance Platform, ensuring Members of the network receive unrivaled speed, control, visibility, protection and cost efficiencies when making real-time payments, globally.

Members of Thunes’ Direct Global Network include gig economy giants like Uber and Deliveroo, super-apps like Grab and WeChat, MTOs, fintechs, PSPs and banks.

Headquartered in Singapore, Thunes has offices in 14 locations, including Abidjan, Barcelona, Beijing, Dubai, Hong Kong, Johannesburg, London, Manila, Nairobi, Paris, Riyadh, San Francisco and Shanghai.

For more information, visit: https://www.thunes.com/

Our Solutions

We act as a trusted, neutral aggregator in a deeply fragmented industry. We offer end-to-end payments solutions to tackle the speed, cost-efficiency and accessibility challenges for emerging markets:

• Business payments
• Remittance processing
• Mass payouts
• Virtual accounts / invoice payments

Why Thunes

• Be part of our international business, by joining our diverse and driven teams that are solving the challenges of global cross-border payments consistently
• We offer a competitive package including annual bonuses for all - we reward hard work in many ways and make sure you get time to switch off
• Incredible development opportunities for your career 
• Capacity to work your way (Ask us how!)

Context of the role

The role is based in Barcelona, having a global impact and stakeholders in Thunes' global offices. By leveraging technology, the Product Manager goal is to serve customers better and bring value to the business. You play a vital role in steering Thunes' products, and in maximising the value of our services to our customers and internal stakeholders, by leveraging data.

As a Product Manager in Thunes, you will have all the tools and freedom to be end-to-end responsible and accountable for your product. You will start from the idea validation and go through the whole product development lifecycle, from turning an idea into requirements and technical user stories, until go to market and feedback. You will need to be the champion of your product internally and externally.

You need to have a passion for FinTech and understand the basics of money movement flows. Your main stakeholders will be the Treasury team in multiple Thunes offices, as well as the Finance team. Your other stakeholders include business development, marketing, compliance, and tech. You need to build the product vision for Treasury, product roadmap and drive its implementation.

Qualities you would find in our Product Team

• High Growth and Quality Product experts
• High-level of Ownership
• Sense of direct contribution to the company’s success
• Shared Vision
• Open Communication

Responsibilities

• Manage global product vision and roadmap
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders to translate their requirements into detailed user stories
• Drive a cross-functional team towards implementing the product vision, be a subject matter expert for all organization, providing insights, context, and additional information as needed
• Build, maintain, and prioritize the team backlog to produce the greatest organizational value in a release
• Be available to the development team continuously and be a subject matter expert on customer needs, feature intent, and product domain
• Maximize the business results and customer value resulting from the development and deployment of treasury specific products by making trade-off decisions as needed which requires extensive experience and knowledge
• Participates in Agile/Scrum ceremonies such as pre and iteration planning, daily stand ups, showcases and retrospectives
• Commercialize treasury products and expose APIs or interfaces to Thunes customers
• Supports sales and marketing events with demonstrations of new products and features

What we are looking for

• Strong academic background in technical engineering, business field or comparable exp