About this role
Product managers at Malaa are generalists by design. You will not own a single domain; you will work across the whole product, investing, lending, savings and the growth loops that connect them, taking on whatever matters most in a given cycle. The role is built for the way product work is changing. We are looking for a product manager with a software engineering background who can take a problem from "we should address this" to a working version in days, place it in front of customers, read the results and decide whether to scale it or stop it. You will have engineers and designers, and you will be expected to do the first mile of discovery yourself. This is a senior position. You set the priorities for the initiatives you carry, you can explain and defend them, and you are accountable for what you commit to. You will collaborate with a squad of engineers and carry a changing portfolio of initiatives across the product, prioritised each cycle against what the business needs most. Over your first year, the role covers: • Outcomes rather than a backlog. You will be measured on results such as deposits into portfolios, activation and conversion between products, retention and the pace at which your squad ships. Each initiative you take on comes with a target, and you will be asked how you intend to reach it. • Building to learn. Before a specification, a prototype. You use AI development tools and your own engineering background to build a working version, read our codebase, define the event taxonomy and query the data directly. Engineers receive a running prototype and a clear brief. • Simplifying. Each quarter you remove something: a feature with no usage, a flow with unnecessary steps, a setting that should not exist. Shipping less that works well is part of the role. • Growing what works. Once a feature has traction, you improve it through experiments, cohort analysis and funnel data until the numbers move. • Treating regulation as product work. Compliance, personal data protection, KYC and disclosures are designed into the product from the start. You involve the compliance team early and make regulated flows feel simple to the customer. • Managing intake. Requests reach product from across the company. You maintain a single channel and a single ranked list, and you decline in writing with a reason. How product and engineering work together? Product and engineering at Malaa operate as one team under a single planning model. Each product manager is paired with a small squad of engineers and its engineering lead, with design shared across squads, and the ratio of product managers to engineers is kept deliberately low. All change, whether customer facing, technical health, reliability or platform, enters the same prioritisation, so a product manager is expected to make the case for engineering health alongside customer outcomes. Execution is coordinated daily within the squad; priorities, capacity and trade offs are settled weekly across squads. Every initiative is documented before it is built, and product managers carry out the technical exploration needed to write complete requirements.