Principal Product Manager, LeanX

Lean is hiring a Principal Product Manager to own product for LeanX, its cross-border payments and stablecoin infrastructure business. LeanX is early, and the role involves setting product direction, deciding what to build and in what order, and working directly with engineering. The role is a member of the LeanX leadership team, partnering closely with the engineering team in Sarajevo and the commercial team in Dubai. Regular travel to both is expected.

Responsibilities

Own product strategy for LeanX across all its product lines; Turn strategy into clear specs, priorities and roadmaps the engineering team can execute against; Make the call when priorities change, with a clear view of the team's capacity and trade-offs; Help shape LeanX's long-term strategy and communicate it across the company; Build a cross-border platform that can compete with the leading global payout networks; Make the platform scale across volume, clients and corridors; Automate treasury operations (pre-funding, liquidity, FX and reconciliation); Define the technical infrastructure a cross-border platform needs and guide engineering to build it; Make it easy for clients to integrate and go live (APIs, documentation, sandbox and onboarding); Treat regulation, licensing and partner coverage as part of the product; Own the roadmap for stablecoin infrastructure (wallets as a service, on-ramps and off-ramps, stablecoin acceptance and payouts); Decide which adjacent opportunities to pursue; Keep one clean platform across stablecoin and fiat, licences and product lines; Bring ways of working closer together across the Lean and LeanX teams; Be the first stop for product questions from clients, the commercial team and the wider company; Work with commercial on the pipeline and what each client needs to go live; Set up automation for routine coordination

Requirements

8+ years in product management, including senior ownership of B2B or infrastructure products; Experience in cross-border payments, remittance, payouts, treasury, or stablecoin and digital asset infrastructure; Strong technical fluency: comfortable with APIs, system design conversations and the trade-offs engineers face; A track record of taking products from early stage to scale, ideally in a startup or new business line; Comfort working in regulated environments and treating compliance and licensing as product inputs; Clear, concise written communication; Experience working with distributed engineering teams across time zones; High agency and good judgment under ambiguity

Nice to have

Experience in the GCC, South Asia or other emerging-market payment corridors; Experience building with AI tools to automate product and team workflows; Arabic

Benefits

Competitive salaries; Private healthcare; Flexible office hours; Meaningful equity stake in the business