Technical Product Lead - AI Finance App

Bjak • Madison, MS

3d • Remote

About The Position

KIRA is building an AI Finance Superapp for Southeast Asia, encompassing payments, remittance, insurance, wealth, and trading. These products handle real money, making reliability, regulatory compliance, and third-party financial rails critical. The Technical Product Lead will be responsible for an entire product vertical, from initial strategy and defining outcomes to technical design, delivery, and successful launch. While the company is AI-native, AI is viewed as a tool to improve outcomes, not the ultimate goal. The role requires a deep understanding of when AI genuinely enhances a product, when traditional deterministic systems are necessary, and how to build products that are reliable, auditable, and trustworthy.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex technical products from strategy through production.
• Strong technical foundation across system architecture, APIs, databases, workflows, failure modes and distributed systems.
• Experience working closely with engineers and ability to review, challenge and contribute to technical designs.
• Experience in payments, banking, remittance, insurance, trading or another regulated, high-consequence product domain.
• Strong product judgment and ability to make difficult trade-offs under technical, regulatory and operational constraints.
• Experience building with LLMs or AI products, including evaluation, reliability and understanding when AI should not be used.
• Strong English communication is required.

Nice To Haves

• Engineering or highly technical product background.
• Experience building zero-to-one fintech or consumer products.
• Experience defining evaluation frameworks for ML or LLM-powered products.

Responsibilities

• Owning a product vertical end-to-end, including strategy, metrics, roadmap, priorities and delivery.
• Shaping technical design with engineering across APIs, data flows, ledgering, reconciliation, failure handling, security and scalability.
• Driving trade-offs across correctness, speed, cost, reliability, regulatory requirements and user experience.
• Building regulatory requirements into the product across KYC, transaction monitoring, limits, privacy and licensing.
• Applying AI where it improves outcomes, with clear evaluation, safeguards, human oversight and failure handling.
• Shipping products around external dependencies, including regulatory approvals, financial rails and third-party partners.
• Aligning Engineering, Design, Compliance, Operations, Treasury and Finance around clear product decisions and launch requirements.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed