Digital Product Manager
Summary
Product manager role at an Australian fintech scale-up in Sydney: you'd own one of two lean squads (7 engineers + designer) building a consumer personal finance app with an AI-driven risk engine, shipping several initiatives per sprint. Up to $160k base + super.
Salary: Up to $160k base + super
Digital Product ManagerThe opportunity:
This is a rare PM seat within an Aussie FinTech scale-up where the distance between a product decision and a commercial result is measured in days, not quarters.
Their award-winning app gives hundreds of thousands of customers fairer access to personal finance, backed by an AI-driven risk engine that assesses every application in real time and approves in seconds.
To be clear about what that takes:
There's no quarterly planning here, no one-initiative-at-a-time, no delivery layer between product and engineering. If that's exactly what you're trying to escape, keep reading.
What you're walking into:
- Product runs as two lean squads, each led by a PM, with the Head of Product across both. You'd own one of them outright.
- Your squad: seven engineers and a dedicated designer, with data science and analytics specialists sitting alongside you rather than in another building. There's no BAs, no delivery managers, no analyst producing your morning report.
- You set the direction, write the requirements and drive the build; with a fellow PM running the other squad as a peer to collaborate with, not a layer above you.
- Five or six initiatives run in parallel, on a sprint cadence. The rhythm: start in the numbers you pulled yourself. Spot what moved, work out why, size the upside, write the requirements, ship it this sprint, measure it next. Go again.
- A PM currently operating at pace, several initiatives on your plate right now, shipping on sprint timelines, and specific about what's live this week
- Someone who has owned a consumer journey end to end, application, onboarding, checkout or activation, and carried the numbers, not just the delivery
- Self-sufficient in data: SQL or equivalent (Python, Looker, Tableau, Power BI), you interrogate your own numbers before anyone briefs you
- A doer by habit: you write the requirements, sit with the engineers, test the edge cases, make the call
- Commercially fluent: you can say what your work did to revenue, margin or quality, not just to a conversion rate
- Someone who drives a squad by creating momentum, collaborative, never passive
- Domain background in credit, fintech or payments helps, but pace and ownership beat domain here, people have joined without it and learned fast
