This is a remote position.
Founding Product Lead, Investments
Remote · UAE contract · UK hours overlap required · Fintech / Super App
We are building a unified financial platform: one account, every asset class, one experience. Trading, investing, crypto, and everyday spending combined into a single coherent system instead of five disconnected products.
The Investments domain covers stocks, ETFs, and long-term wealth accumulation. But this is not another investing app competing on price or feature parity with incumbents. The entire bet here is on integration: users who already trade, spend, and hold crypto on the platform should not need to go anywhere else to build long-term wealth.
The differentiation is not the product in isolation. It is what the product enables when it is part of a unified financial system.
Investing is a low-frequency behavior by nature. Users open investing apps when markets move, when they get paid, or when they feel ready. That is not a daily loop.
Your job is to make investing feel like a natural part of how users manage their money on the platform, not a separate destination they navigate to occasionally.
You are building on top of a platform with an existing identity rooted in active trading. Making long-term investing feel native without diluting that identity is a real design and strategy challenge.
You cannot win on features. Vanguard, Fidelity, and newer challengers already do stocks and ETFs well. Your edge is ecosystem integration, not product depth.
Low-frequency engagement means your activation and retention metrics look different from every other domain. You need to define what good looks like for a product users trust but do not open every day.
You are building coherently across squads. Your flows need to connect with cards (spending from portfolio), crypto (cross-asset view), and the core accounts layer without losing product ownership.
Stocks and ETFs product:discovery, execution, and portfolio management
Investment onboarding:how users get started, fund their account, and make their first investment
Portfolio view and performance tracking:the experience of understanding what you own and how it is doing
Buy, sell, and rebalance flows:reliable, simple, and fast
Cross-pillar integration:spending from portfolio, unified asset view, portfolio-linked card features
You own this end-to-end. Strategy, discovery, requirements, delivery, metrics. Not just the roadmap.
Users deposit funds into the investment layer and keep assets on the platform rather than elsewhere
Investors become more engaged with the platform overall, not just with the investments tab
AUM grows steadily with clear attribution to product decisions, not just market conditions
Cross-pillar usage increases: investors using cards, viewing unified portfolio, and not leaving the ecosystem
This is not a role where you build a standalone investing app and call it done.
You won't be competing in a feature race against Vanguard, Fidelity, or Trading 212.
You'll join a growing organisation where processes are still being defined and improved.
Head of Product here means shaping strategy, driving outcomes, and delivering impact — not simply managing a backlog.
UAE-based remote contract
Competitive performance-linked compensation
Market-standard benefits
30-min screening call
Strategic product case: how you think about systems and trade-offs
Leadership and fit interview with CEO and CTO
Offer
Requirements
Required
8+ years in product, with meaningful time in fintech, wealth management, brokerage, or adjacent domains
Direct experience owning at least one of: investing or brokerage products, ETF or stock trading flows, wealth or savings products at scale
Ability to operate at system level — you understand how brokerage infrastructure, custody models, and settlement flows work well enough to make good product decisions
Track record of owning outcomes, not features: AUM growth, activation rates, retention, cross-sell — not just shipped features
Integration-first thinking: you know that building a standalone investing product is not the goal and you do not need to be convinced of that
Strong signal
Experience at a multi-product fintech platform (Nubank, Revolut, Robinhood, Trading 212, eToro, XTB, or equivalent)
Experience designing for low-frequency, high-trust financial behaviors
Worked on cross-pillar product integration (investing connected to payments, crypto, or cards)
Understanding of tax-aware investing flows or experience in markets where tax efficiency drives product decisions
Sumara Technology is building a unified financial platform that consolidates trading, investing, crypto, and everyday spending into a single coherent system. The platform integrates multiple asset classes—stocks, ETFs, cryptocurrencies, and traditional banking services—with a focus on seamless money movement and user engagement. Rather than offering disconnected products, Sumara aims to create a cohesive experience where users can manage their entire financial life in one place, combining neobank-style UX with institutional-grade infrastructure. The company is structured around interconnected domains including accounts and cards, investments, crypto, and trading, with product leaders responsible for end-to-end ownership of strategy, discovery, and metrics.
