Lead Product Manager

About Verto

At Verto, we're on a mission to democratise global finance and empower businesses in Emerging Markets to reach the world. Founded by British-Nigerian entrepreneurs Ola Oyetayo and Anthony Oduu, our roots in Africa provided a firsthand understanding of the significant challenges businesses face with cross-border payments, ranging from illiquid currencies and high fees to slow transactions. This deep-rooted insight is why Africa remains a core focus, as we're committed to bridging the gap between emerging and developed markets and fostering global economic growth.

What started as an FX solution for the Nigerian Naira has evolved into a market-leading platform, enabling thousands of businesses to seamlessly transfer billions of dollars annually. We believe that where you do business shouldn’t determine your success or ability to scale. We're creating equal access to the easy payment and liquidity solutions that are already a given in developed markets.

We're not alone in realising this crucial need; we're backed by world-class investors including Y-Combinator, Quona, and MEVP. With Verto receiving the Milken-Motsepe Prize, appearing on CNBCs list of fastest growing UK companies, the Deloitte Fast 50 and Sifted’s fastest-growing UK tech companies, we are building a seamless cross-border payment future.

Join us as we continue to grow and transform global finance.

Role Overview:

We are looking for a seasoned and inspiring Lead Product Manager to take the helm of our Core Product group. This is a pivotal leadership role where you will lead and mentor our Product Managers for Payments and Accounts, unifying the strategy for our entire client money journey. Your mission will be to create a single, cohesive, and world-class experience for how businesses hold, manage, move, and receive funds globally, ensuring that our two core product pillars work in perfect harmony.

What You’ll Be Doing:

• Lead, Mentor, and Develop: Manage and grow a high-performing team of Product Managers, fostering their skills, setting clear goals, and empowering them to do their best work.

• Own the Holistic Vision: Own and articulate the overarching product vision and strategy across both the Payments and Accounts domains, ensuring they combine to solve key customer problems.

• Unify the Roadmaps: Guide your team to develop and execute aligned product roadmaps that deliver on the unified vision and meet broader company objectives.

• Drive Execution Excellence: Champion product management best practices across your team, guiding them through the end-to-end product lifecycle from discovery to delivery and iteration.

• Executive Stakeholder Management: Serve as the primary product leader for the Core Product area, regularly communicating strategy, progress, and results to executive leadership.

• Foster Cross-Functional Alignment: Drive collaboration and alignment with senior leaders across Engineering, Design, Compliance, Operations, and Go-to-Market to ensure successful product outcomes.

What You Need:

• Extensive Product Leadership Experience: 8+ years of product management experience, with proven success in a leadership or management role where you have directly managed and mentored other Product Managers.

• Deep FinTech Domain Expertise: A deep, holistic understanding of the B2B FinTech landscape, covering both cross-border payments (rails, FX) AND global account/wallet propositions (virtual IBANs, ledgers, collections).

• Exceptional Strategic Thinking: A demonstrated ability to set a long-term vision, translate it into a tangible strategy, and guide a team to execute against it.

• Strong People Management Skills: A passion for developing talent, with a track record of coaching PMs to improve their craft and advance their careers.

• Executive-Level Communication: The ability to articulate a complex strategy and influence senior stakeholders and executive teams effectively.

• Decisive and Data-Informed: You are comfortable making difficult prioritisation decisions and trade-offs, using data and customer insights to guide your logic.

• Experience in Regulated Environments: You thrive in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment and are comfortable navigating the complexities of a regulated industry.

Our Interview Process:

Step 1: Initial Call - A brief chat with our Talent Acquisition team to discuss your experience and interests.

Step 2: Hiring Manager Interview - Deeper dive into your skills and experience relevant to the role.

Step 3: Panel Interview - Present your case study to the team and discuss how you'd apply your approach to the role.

Step 4: Offer - We aim to make a decision quickly after the final interview.

You’ll Fit Right In If You...

• Love asking “why?”

• Value solving problems over just completing tasks

• Understand sync vs. async communication practices

• Thrive in ambiguity and change

• Actively seek feedback

• Prioritise impact over activity

• Are fun to work with - we love good humour!

Life at Verto

• Mission-Driven Impact Work: Be at the forefront of simplifying cross-border payments, directly contributing to a borderless future for global businesses, particularly in emerging markets.

• High Performance & Ownership: We empower you to take risks, be results-driven, and take ownership. Act fast, deliver impactful results, and make the impossible possible. We set you up for success.

• Collaborative & Supportive Environment: We work "as one," sharing successes and failures openly. We foster a transparent, supportive atmosphere where everyone does their best. A community of colleagues from varied backgrounds, who care deeply about their craft, collaborate with purpose, and enjoy the journey together.

• Industry Competitive Compensation & Benefits: We compensate our employees in recognition of the great value they bring to the business; our compensation and benefits package are competitive in the industry across all our geographies. This includes performance based salary reviews, comprehensive health and wellness benefits, generous paid time off and flexible working arrangements to support your career and life.

• Our Core Values: Our core values mirror the focus we have, energy we bring to work and shared expectations within the team.

  • Champion the Mission: We are driven by curiosity and belief to solve cross-border payments pain points globally.

  • Be the Best: We are open, take appropriate risks, adopt a results-driven approach, and are the best at what we do.

  • Work as One: We are transparent with sharing failures and mistakes as well as successes.

  • Go the Extra Mile: We deliver beyond what is possible. We make impossible possible.

  • Customer First: We are creative in solving existing problems and bold in designing a new and better experience for customers.

  • Run with It: We are determined, seek challenges, take ownership of tasks, act fast and deliver results.

Diversity & Inclusion at Verto

Verto is an equal opportunities employer and we value diversity. Anyone seeking employment at Verto is considered based on Merit, Competence, Qualifications and their Talent. We are proud to be a truly international team and we do not discriminate in our hiring process.