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DEUNA is a rapidly growing fintech startup revolutionizing global commerce with ATHIA, an AI-powered orchestration and payments platform. The company helps large enterprises boost approval rates, reduce costs, and unlock new revenue. Built by the team behind DEUNA—the fastest-growing Commerce OS in Latin America—ATHIA combines payment intelligence, checkout optimization, and data orchestration. With deep integrations across 300+ payment service providers and alternative payment methods, and over 20% of Mexico's digital economy running through the platform, DEUNA is expanding into the U.S. to serve large retailers, marketplaces, airlines, and QSRs.
You will serve as Head of Product Management for DEUNA's core payments product organization, responsible for defining long-term vision, strategy, and execution across multiple product pillars within the payments platform. You will lead a team of Product Managers while owning overall business success, scalability, and innovation of this product area.
Key responsibilities include:
**Product Vision & Strategy:** Define and lead a multi-year (3+ years) product vision for the payments ecosystem. Identify major new product opportunities within the evolving payments landscape and drive strategic direction across multiple product pillars and initiatives. Align product strategy with company growth, revenue objectives, and market expansion.
**Organizational Leadership:** Lead and develop a team of Product Managers responsible for key product areas. Define team structure, hiring plans, and career development for product leaders. Establish strong product management standards and operating processes. Foster a culture of ownership, accountability, and innovation.
**Payments Platform Leadership:** Drive the evolution of the payments orchestration platform and capabilities layer. Ensure the platform supports critical payment workflows including payment connectivity, payment orchestration, reconciliation and financial operations, subscriptions and recurring payments, and disputes and chargeback management. Ensure product architecture supports enterprise-scale merchants and high transaction volumes.
**Cross-Functional Impact:** Partner closely with Engineering leadership to define scalable technical architecture. Work with Sales, Customer Success, and Partnerships to translate market needs into product strategy. Remove organizational blockers and drive alignment across teams. Lead cross-team initiatives spanning multiple product areas.
**Business Ownership:** Own business performance of the payments product area. Define success metrics and product KPIs tied to growth, merchant adoption, and platform performance. Ensure product decisions balance customer value, scalability, and business outcomes.
**Market & Innovation:** Continuously evaluate emerging trends in the payments ecosystem. Identify opportunities related to orchestration, approval optimization, financial automation, and AI-driven payment intelligence. Position the product platform as a leader in enterprise payments infrastructure.
The company offers remote work from anywhere, stock options, learning and development platform, and a multicultural team distributed throughout LATAM.
**Requirements:**
- 10+ years of experience in Product Management
- Experience leading multiple product teams or managing Product Managers
- Strong background in payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure platforms
- Deep understanding of payment ecosystems including: payment orchestration, PSP/acquirer integrations, payment methods and wallets, disputes and chargebacks, subscription and recurring payments
- Experience building and scaling API-driven platforms
- Strong collaboration with engineering teams on complex systems
- Experience leading large cross-team initiatives
- Strong strategic thinking and ability to define long-term product direction
- Excellent leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Advanced or native-level English
