(Senior/ Lead) Technical Product Manager, Platform (f/m/d)

Location

Berlin

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Product

Upvest is on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. The company empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products and the best experience in the field of capital market investment and retirement planning. Upvest’s Investment API is easy to integrate so that fintechs and enterprises alike can save resources and fully focus on their core business.

Upvest is one of the few fintechs in Europe that can provide its B2B clients with the full range of investment opportunities in the areas of principal broking business, proprietary trading, and safe custody business for traditional securities. The company was founded in 2017 by Martin Kassing and currently employs more than 250+ people across Europe. Its latest €100m fundraising round (Series C) was led by Hedosophia and Sapphire Venture, with continued support from existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Motive Ventures, and Notion Capital.

We currently employ 250+ people across Europe with our headquarters based in Berlin, Germany, and hubs in Tallinn, Estonia, and London, UK.

How we Upvest in you*:

• Work with experts: Solving complex problems and fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest by using cutting-edge technologies.
• Flexible work environment: Work from any of our hubs in Berlin, London or Tallinn hybrid or remotely across Europe, depending on the role.
• Professional development: Access an annual budget of €1,500 for personal and professional training to master your craft.
• Wellbeing: Recharge with 30 days of annual leave and maintain a healthy lifestyle with sports benefits. Access confidential professional coaching and enjoy the flexibility to work remotely abroad for up to 183 days a year.
• Compensation and equity: We believe that all Upvengers contribute to our success and deserve a competitive, above-market salary and a participation in our employee equity program.
• Team celebrations: Participate in company-wide events, such as UpFest, dinners, offsites and our Holiday party, to connect with colleagues and celebrate our achievements.

Your Impact:

As Upvest enters the next stage of growth, we are looking for an exceptional Technical Product Manager, Platform. You will work directly with Mislav Ilich (Director Product), Paul Kremer (Director Engineering) & Roberto Fajardo (SVP Engineering) owning topics critical to Upvest’s product and business success:

• Enable & empower Upvest’s hyperscaling growth alongside its clients:

Upvest is currently processing over 9 million orders per Month and growing fast. Your task is to understand the needs of Upvest Product Engineering as well as Upvest’s client needs during this growth phase. To be successful you will guide the Platform tribes teams to deliver on the overarching platform vision while making clear tradeoffs along the way to enable Upvest to meet its business goals.

You will embed design thinking & future extensibility in early and scrappy MVPs to mature mission critical infrastructure components. You will iterate fast with the platform engineers and have a strong bias towards execution and delivering meaningful value for Upvest as a business and Product Engineering.

• Own the Platform delivery, roadmap & strategy:

Upvest is on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money and we aim to empower 100 million people to invest via our Investment API. With support of engineering & product leadership, your mission is to help define the platform engineering strategy that will enable us to be successful towards that goal.

Own & validate the platform team's roadmap and importantly lead the delivery of a market leading cloud infrastructure and tools that enables our product engineers to deliver value to clients fast, reliably and securely.

• Embed security, resilience and scalability by design in the Upvest platform:

Upvest is a regulated investment firm in Germany and the UK, live & serving clients in 20+ markets, ISO 27001 and SOC2 certified, offering a highly available investment platform to the biggest banks, financial institutions and fintechs in Europe and the UK.

To be successful you will utilise existing best practices, battle tested components as well as innovate and create new solutions to ensure our system has the highest measures of security, reliability and business continuity procedures in place.

What you’ll do:

• Autonomy coupled with inspirational leadership: When we say empowered teams we mean it. In this role you will fully own product success with your team - with your manager and senior leadership ready to support you at all times.
• Product-centricity throughout the organisation: At Upvest we highly value the importance of product and our Product team’s work. No struggle for relevance that product people may encounter elsewhere.
• Product Engineering culture: Teams are working together guided by joint OKRs and a clear roadmap. Collaborate closely with your engineering counterparts to deliver client value in a decoupled and dynamic manner.
• An exceptional team: Upvest’s Product team is one of a kind when it comes to combining impactful work with a relaxed and fun atmosphere. We have established strong practices around feedback, team health and social events.
• Continuous learning: The complex yet fascinating field of investments, building an API product on a state-of-the-art tech stack, and working with the most relevant fintechs and financial institutions provide for an incredibly rewarding learning experience. It is a great opportunity if you aspire to grow professionally.

What you bring:

• You have 5+ years experience working in Technical Product Management roles - ideally with focus on regulated cloud infrastructure and engineering experience . Experience in financial services/investing, B2B SaaS or FinTech is a big plus.
• Understanding of and a focus on client needs and how to delight them. You have a clear bias for impact and speed in product discovery and delivery.
• Be a sponge! We don’t need you to be a finance or trading industry expert. But you will need to be able to absorb knowledge on complicated topics quickly (e.g. Investment Infrastructure, Localised regulatory requirements, etc) and combine with your expertise on product management best practices.
• Experience with product manager’s toolkits - such as product discovery, ticketing and documentation software (e.g., Linear, Slite, Miro, Figma etc.).

Our Values:

• Make it easy for others. Team over Egos.
• Own the outcome. Progress over Perfection.
• Rise to the challenge. Growth over Comfort.
• Tell the story. Clarity over Ambiguity.

Our Commitment to Belonging

At Upvest we’re dedicated to building an inclusive environment where every Upvenger feels a true sense of belonging and is empowered to do their best work. We are a proud equal opportunity employer. We welcome applications from all backgrounds, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Your unique path is what we value.

* These benefits apply if you will be hired in Germany, Estonia or the UK. If you live elsewhere within Europe, some of the benefits might be slightly different.

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