Director of Product Management

A global technology company at the intersection of FinTech, risk intelligence, and AI is seeking a Director of Product Management to lead its product management team in Israel and drive the execution of its core product strategy and roadmap.

The company helps leading financial institutions, payment providers, and global marketplaces identify risk and combat illicit activity across digital commerce. Its solutions combine domain expertise, advanced data analytics, and AI to turn complex information into actionable insights.

You will play a central role in building a next-generation platform. This is a player/coach role: you will build, coach, and develop a team of product managers while remaining hands-on with the most complex and ambiguous product challenges.

You will partner closely with Engineering, Data Science, Sales, and Operations, engage directly with customers, and translate their needs into clear product priorities.

We are looking for an AI-first product leader who applies AI both to customer solutions and to the way the team works, accelerating discovery, experimentation, and execution while maintaining strong product judgment.

Key Responsibilities

• Own the execution of the strategy and roadmap for the core risk solutions and a new unified platform, ensuring alignment with company goals, market needs, and customer feedback.
• Lead, coach, and grow the product management team in Israel, developing talent, setting clear goals, and managing performance.
• Operate as a player/coach: lead primarily through your team and personally take on the most complex or ambiguous requirements, or step in where the team needs support, while mentoring PMs through discovery, definition, and delivery.
• Set an AI-first standard for the team in both what you build and how you work, embedding responsible AI capabilities into the roadmap while using AI tools to accelerate research, requirements development, customer insights synthesis, and execution.
• Coach the team on judgment with AI: when to write to think, and when to build a working prototype so people have something concrete to react to. AI accelerates the work; it does not replace the thinking.
• Conduct market, competitive, and customer research to identify opportunities, validate product direction, and drive continuous innovation within the portfolio.
• Engage directly with key customers to understand use cases, gather feedback, validate hypotheses, and ensure product-market fit.
• Champion a data-driven approach to prioritization, experimentation, and product decisions.
• Define and prioritize features, writing clear requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for Engineering and Data Science partners.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to guide development, ensure delivery milestones are met, and remove roadblocks throughout the product lifecycle.
• Partner closely with Sales, Client Delivery, and Operations to gather insights, support go-to-market efforts, and ensure product launch readiness.
• Support commercialization by partnering with marketing and sales to create product messaging, collateral, training, and onboarding materials.
• Monitor product performance, using analytical methods to evaluate KPIs, customer outcomes, and risk model effectiveness.
• Partner with the SVP of Product and peer leaders to shape portfolio-level priorities, investment trade-offs, and quarterly planning.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, including 2+ years directly managing product managers, ideally in data, AI/ML, and/or Fintech.
• Demonstrated success managing complex, data-driven or analytical products from concept through launch and iteration.
• Track record as a player/coach — hands-on in the craft of product management while building, coaching, and retaining a high-performing team.
• Experience leading a team in Israel or another distributed location, partnering effectively with US-based leadership and stakeholders across time zones.
• Fintech, payments, and/or e-commerce risk and compliance experience is preferred but not required.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage AI tools in day-to-day product work and experience collaborating with Data Science to translate business problems into practical, ethical AI-enabled product solutions.
• Proven ability to translate customer needs and business objectives into clear product requirements and actionable development plans.
• Excellent collaboration skills and experience working with Engineering, Data Science, Operations, and GTM teams.
• Strong analytical skills for modeling, KPI analysis, and trend evaluation.
• Exceptional communication skills, with the ability to present complex concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable engaging with customers and external stakeholders to gather insights, validate assumptions, and build strong relationships.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, analytics, computer science, or related field (MBA or advanced degree a plus).