Technical Product Owner
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About the Role
Alpheya, a B2B WealthTech startup backed by BNY Mellon and Lunate, seeks a Technical Product Owner to own product briefs end-to-end, translate technical contracts into user outcomes, and design internal APIs as products.
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Responsibilities
- Own the product brief end to end, turning business problems into complete, technically grounded specifications
- Translate technical contracts (REST and FIX) into user outcomes, designing for full state space
- Set and defend the quality bar by defining non functional requirements as commitments
- Own the async and real time experience, briefing full lifecycle of time sensitive user interactions
- Design internal APIs as products, defining consumer contracts, versioning policies, and platform boundaries
- Build working mobile applications that integrate internal and external APIs using AI assisted development tools
- Use AI tooling as a core work practice for brief writing, acceptance criteria, API analysis, prototype generation, and delivery automation
- Instrument and measure what you ship by defining telemetry as part of the brief
Requirements
- Proven experience as a product owner or product manager in a B2B or B2B2C fintech, trading, or wealth management environment
- Fluency in REST API and FIX protocol documentation — able to read a spec, identify gaps, and own the product consequences
- Track record of shipping integration rich, customer facing mobile journeys with explicit acceptance criteria and measurable NFRs
- Hands on experience building or prototyping mobile applications that integrate real APIs — not mockups
- Active, demonstrated use of AI coding and product tools (Claude, Cursor or equivalent) as part of your daily workflow
- Experience in API product design: consumer contracts, versioning, error handling, and SLA ownership
- Fluency in agile delivery: backlog management, sprint planning, release health, and cross team dependency tracking
- Strong written English; Arabic is a plus
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About the Client
- We are sourcing on behalf of Alpheya, a B2B WealthTech startup based in Abu Dhabi and backed by BNY Mellon and Lunate.
- The company has raised $300M to build a state of the art wealth technology platform.
- Their mission is to power and grow their clients’ Wealth franchises through differentiated experiences, financial solutions, and insights.
- Their digital wealth management platform will enable banks and other financial institutions in the Middle East to grow and further penetrate affluent, HNW and UHNW investor segments.
- While still leveraging the capabilities and knowledge of large organizations, this fintech is a startup with truly cross functional and agile teams.
WHAT YOU WILL DO
- Own the product brief end to end. You take a business problem and turn it into a complete, technically grounded specification that engineering can build from without guesswork.
- Translate technical contracts into user outcomes. You work directly with API and protocol documentation — REST and FIX — and own every user facing consequence of what those contracts allow, constrain, or fail to define.
- Set and defend the quality bar. You define non functional requirements as commitments, not intentions — covering performance, reliability, security, and data integrity.
- Own the async and real time experience. You brief the full lifecycle of time sensitive user interactions: what the user sees while waiting, what happens when they leave and return, how push notifications behave, and what the product does when a real time connection degrades.
- Design internal APIs as products. You define consumer contracts, versioning policies, and platform boundaries before the first consuming team builds against them.
- Build, not just specify. You can scaffold and ship a working mobile application that integrates internal and external APIs. You use AI assisted development tools to compress the gap between idea and working product.
- Use AI as a core work practice. You use AI tooling — for brief writing, acceptance criteria, API analysis, prototype generation, and delivery automation — as a standard part of how you work, not an experiment.
- Instrument and measure what you ship. You define telemetry as part of the brief: user funnel visibility, system performance across the full stack, error breakdown by category, and business outcome metrics.
WHAT WE NEED
- Proven experience as a product owner or product manager in a B2B or B2B2C fintech, trading, or wealth management environment
- Fluency in REST API and FIX protocol documentation — able to read a spec, identify gaps, and own the product consequences
- Track record of shipping integration rich, customer facing mobile journeys with explicit acceptance criteria and measurable NFRs
- Hands on experience building or prototyping mobile applications that integrate real APIs — not mockups
- Active, demonstrated use of AI coding and product tools (Claude, Cursor or equivalent) as part of your daily workflow
- Experience in API product design: consumer contracts, versioning, error handling, and SLA ownership
- Fluency in agile delivery: backlog management, sprint planning, release health, and cross team dependency tracking
- Strong written English; Arabic is a plus
DOMAIN CONTEXT
- Alpheya operates across equities trading, portfolio management, client onboarding, and KYC/AML workflows for regulated GCC financial institutions.
- You will work with broker integrations, core banking APIs, real time market data, and digital identity infrastructure.
- Prior domain experience is an advantage, but technical rigour, delivery track record, and AI fluency matter more.
WHAT GOOD LOOKS LIKE
- Turn ambiguity into a scoped, actionable brief faster than most people can schedule a meeting about it
- Catch integration risks and undefined behaviours before engineering discovers them in QA
- Hold a position under pushback, proposing alternatives, not retreating to whatever the room wants
- Ship a working prototype to prove a concept before committing a sprint to it
- Use AI tooling to operate well above what the role headcount would suggest is possible
- Make the product measurably better with every release — not just shippable
WHAT WE OFFER
- A flat, high trust environment. There are no layers between your work and the people who shape the product direction.
- AI tooling without bureaucracy. We provide access to the best AI development and product tools available and expect you to use them.
- Real deployments, real stakes. You will work on live products used by wealth clients at GCC's leading banks — not internal prototypes or sandbox environments.
- Competitive compensation and benefits. Salary benchmarked to the Abu Dhabi market, private health, dental, and optical insurance, and the hardware and software you need to do the job properly.
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