Product Owner

Overview

This role is offered on behalf of a partner company based in the United Arab Emirates, seeking a Product Owner. The position involves transforming overarching product strategies into well-defined objectives and measurable outcomes. Working fully remotely in an international agile environment, you will collaborate with Engineering, Design, Legal and Compliance, Marketing, and Project teams. The focus will be on balancing user demands, business priorities, data insight, and regulatory factors to guide product choices, particularly in fintech, payments, and digital assets. Your contributions will impact product delivery, client satisfaction, and business expansion.

Key Responsibilities

• Convert broad product roadmaps and strategies into detailed epics, requirements, and deliverables for product and engineering teams.
• Maintain a thorough grasp of the business, user requirements, market trends, and compliance constraints behind each initiative.
• Manage and routinely prioritize the product backlog, eliminating low-impact tasks to keep teams targeting high-value work.
• Oversee execution from initial planning through delivery by tracking timelines, identifying risks early, and ensuring commitments are met timely and with quality.
• Perform business and product analysis examining data, user journeys, edge cases, and requirements to recognize opportunities and resolve challenges.
• Document clear requirements, user workflows, acceptance criteria, and necessary materials translating objectives into deployable solutions.
• Verify completed features to confirm they address the intended issues and deliver expected user and business results.
• Work cross-functionally with relevant teams to ensure alignment on goals, scope, and priorities.
• Act as the main reference point for product scope, priorities, project status, trade-offs, and critical decisions.
• Provide executives and stakeholders regular updates on progress, risks, decisions, and delivery outcomes.

Qualifications and Skills

• Minimum of 3 years in product ownership or product management roles, preferably in fintech, cryptocurrency, payments, or related sectors.
• In-depth knowledge of crypto products and infrastructure, including wallets, on/off-ramps, crypto cards, and trading essential.
• Strong capabilities in business analysis such as requirement gathering, user flow analysis, product discovery, and data-driven decisions.
• Familiarity with SQL or business intelligence tools is advantageous.
• Proven experience collaborating effectively with engineering, design, compliance, and business teams.
• Excellent organizational skills enabling transformation of broad or vague goals into actionable, measurable plans.
• Confident prioritization and scope management based on user and business impact.
• Analytical mindset with strong problem-solving, attention to product edge cases, and dependencies.
• Fluent English communication skills, both written and verbal, capable of producing clear documentation and communicating with diverse stakeholders.
• High ownership, responsibility, adaptability, and eagerness to learn in a fast-paced product context.

Benefits and Work Environment

• Fully remote role within an agile, diverse international team.
• Competitive compensation reflective of experience and performance.
• Opportunities for professional growth and career advancement.
• A culture emphasizing transparency, open dialogue, and impactful ownership.
• Engagement with critical fintech and digital asset products demanding high standards of security, clarity, and technical quality.
• Exposure to complex challenges at the crossroads of payments, crypto infrastructure, compliance, and next-generation financial technologies.

Additional Information

This listing is managed by a recruiting partner who handles applications and subsequent steps. An AI-supported matching system ensures fair evaluation by processing candidate suitability based on core requirements before forwarding the shortlist to the company for final decisions. The role follows data privacy laws including GDPR, with applicants able to request data access and correction. AI tools may assist screening but do not replace human recruitment decisions.