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As our client continues to scale and diversify its offerings, they’re looking for a dynamic product operations leader to accelerate product delivery, remove friction, and drive operational efficiency globally.\nThe role\nAs Product Operations and Strategy Manager, you’ll play a critical role in shaping and scaling our client’s payments and fintech products by turning data into practical solutions that remove operational friction and accelerate product delivery. You’ll work closely with product, engineering, compliance, and business stakeholders to streamline workflows, improve decision-making, and keep complex initiatives moving forward.\nThe role involves building and refining operational frameworks that scale, ensuring products are launch-ready, and continuously improving performance through structured analysis and experimentation. Success requires a deep understanding of how product strategy and day-to-day operations intersect, along with the ability to balance customer expectations, regulatory requirements, and broader business goals. It’s a hands-on, impact-driven role for someone who thrives at the intersection of strategy, execution, and cross-functional collaboration.\nWhat you’ll do\nProcess & Workflow Optimization\nIdentify process gaps and operational inefficiencies proactively, designing scalable solutions before they become blockers to growth\nBuild structured decision-making mechanisms (RACI models, decision logs, prioritization frameworks) that keep complex, multi-team initiatives moving forward\nBuild, document, and refine scalable operational frameworks supporting the product team from ideation through launch and iteration\nCross-Functional Collaboration & GTM Strategy\nServe as connective tissue between strategy and execution, ensuring regulatory, compliance, and risk considerations are embedded into product workflows from the outset\nOwn launch-readiness processes end-to-end - coordinating cross-functional workstreams, tracking dependencies, and surfacing risks\nSupport strategic planning efforts including new product initiatives and market/competitive analysis, with a deep understanding of modern fintech and payments products\nData-Driven Performance & Analysis\nTranslate data and performance metrics into practical, actionable solutions that remove friction and accelerate delivery\nDrive continuous improvement through structured analysis, hypothesis-driven experimentation, and post-launch retrospectives\nDevelop and maintain reporting/dashboards giving leadership visibility into product operations health, launch pipelines, and KPIs\nEstablish and manage centralized feedback loops from customers, sales, and support to inform the product roadmap\nTooling & Team Enablement\nOwn, configure, and optimize the product/engineering tool stack (e.g., Jira, Notion, Confluence)\nMaintain a centralized repository of product knowledge - 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