Technical Product Manager

Alaan is the smartest way to manage business spend for Middle Eastern businesses.

The Middle East is on the cusp of a payments revolution with a $3 trillion+ B2B payments market. Managing spending for businesses in the region is incredibly painful, with archaic and disjointed solutions. Alaan solves these pain points by providing an all-in-one spend management and corporate cards platform. Businesses use Alaan to control spending, save time, and automate business expenses.

About the Role: As a Technical Product Manager at Alaan,  you will play a pivotal role in launching our card payment and expense management product in the Middle East region. You will be responsible for understanding all technical requirements for the launch, including front-end, back-end, and infrastructure needs. Leading a pod of engineers, you will drive the effort to take our product from 0 to 1 in new markets.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Leadership: Lead a core team of engineers and designers to build exceptional products that serve thousands of businesses.
• Technical Execution: Own the product roadmap, priorities, and execution, focusing on the card payment and expense management product for the Middle East region.
• Market Launch: Understand all technical requirements for the product launch and guide the engineering team through the development process.
• Customer Focus: Leverage data and customer feedback to iterate and evolve product offerings, ensuring a fantastic user experience.
• Collaboration: Partner and collaborate across various internal teams to deliver financial products that streamline complex business processes.
• Strategic Vision: Contribute to the vision, strategy, and processes that enable the growth of the product management function at various stages of the company's development.

What You’ll Do:

• Deliver incredible products and experiences by combining a deep understanding of business strategy with creative product strategy and technical expertise.
• Expand the capabilities of our product, helping thousands of companies manage their finances more successfully.
• Utilize data and customer feedback to constantly iterate and improve product offerings.
• Guide and influence small teams of engineers towards common goals.
• Collaborate with multiple stakeholders and large cross-functional teams to ensure product success.
• Communicate effectively to ensure clear understanding and alignment across all teams.

What You Need:

• Former experience in a technical role e.g., software engineer, devops engineer, etc.
• Strong communication skills in English - written and verbal
• Former product management experience
• Ability to understand customer or regulatory requirements, solutionize and identify product implications, and create user stories
• Experience in evaluating product decisions and managing prioritization trade-offs.
• Proven ability to lead and influence small teams of engineers towards common objectives
• Proven ability to collaborate with and influence non-technical colleagues
• Proven ability to collaborate with and influence external partners (e.g., system integrators)
• Proficiency in data analysis and making data-driven product decisions.

Nice-to-Haves:

• Experience in high-growth startups
• Experience in B2B finance related products
• Former experience engaging with customers and other external stakeholders

Why work at Alaan

• Hybrid culture with a seriously high degree of flexibility.
• Alaan is a tested model, but in a new market, it is a chance to be a part of a rocket ship just waiting to take off.
• Equity compensation for all employees to bring a high degree of ownership into your work. So as the company grows, you grow with it.
• Alaan is part of the Y Combinator W23 cohort and is backed by a fantastic set of investors who helped build some of the world's largest companies.
• Frequent company off-sites to keep the remotely distributed team closely knit together.
• A MacBook to make your life easier!

Location

 India initially. Should be willing to relocate to Middle East (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, etc.) later