Senior Director: Product

Lavu Inc.•Tampa, FL

7d•Onsite

About The Position

Lavu is building the Financial OS for modern restaurant brands — POS, Payments, Payroll, Banking, Cards and Marty, the AI intelligence layer that ties it all together. You will lead: Marty — our AI agent ecosystem and intelligence platform; All Product — POS, Payments, Payroll, Banking, Card Issuing; Product Strategy — cross-product roadmap, adoption, and revenue impact; Cross-functional execution with Engineering, Data, Design, and GTM; Product performance across thousands of restaurants in 75 countries. This is the role that turns Lavu’s product portfolio into a unified, AI-powered financial operating system used by the most ambitious restaurants in the world.

Requirements

Built and scaled fintech or embedded finance products.
Experience with payments, payroll, banking, or card issuing.
Strong understanding of platform architecture.
Experience owning data or AI-driven product systems.
Ability to partner deeply with senior engineering leaders.
Owned zero-to-one and scaled one-to-ten products.
Delivered complex, regulated, multi-product environments.
Improved execution velocity and product quality.
Strong understanding of product economics and monetization.
Clear communicator who creates alignment.
Ability to influence cross-functionally without drama or politics.
Operates with urgency, clarity, and ownership.
Can immediately lead Product at scale.

Nice To Haves

Restaurant, hospitality, or retail systems experience.
Experience with multi-location or high-volume operators.
Experience building intelligence layers or AI agents.
Experience managing global or distributed product orgs.

Responsibilities

Define and drive the intelligence layer for the entire company, owning the AI roadmap and agent ecosystem.
Turn Marty into the system restaurants rely on daily, building and refining intelligence across POS, payments, payroll, banking, and driving adoption.
Make Marty a core retention, expansion, and revenue driver.
Be accountable for product outcomes across POS, Payments, Payroll, Banking, and Cards, delivering high-impact financial and operational product releases.
Achieve 90% attachment on payments and 25% adoption of payroll, banking, and cards in 12 months.
Deliver clear revenue and margin outcomes tied to product usage.
Partner closely with Engineering to increase velocity by setting priorities, clarifying specs, removing ambiguity, and driving a fast, predictable product development rhythm.
Shape platform evolution and architecture priorities with engineering leadership.
Improve execution quality and reliability through clarity and focus.
Drive commercial impact by delivering $5M+ ARR in embedded finance in 12–18 months, improving NRR through adoption, and expanding ARPU and unit economics.
Build a roadmap tied directly to financial impact, not vanity metrics.
Build the next generation of the Product organization by hiring PMs, AI product talent, and design.
Establish standards, rituals, and clarity for the product team.
Build a culture that ships consistently and strengthen cross-functional operating rhythms.