Teams at Umba

Own and build Umba’s payments and banking-as-a-service platform, including partner accounts, collections, payouts, cross-border payments, FX, remittance termination, and credit products. Lead product specifications, partner contracting and onboarding, settlement-route selection, pricing, compliance approvals, treasury coordination, financial performance, and team hiring. Develop relationships with fintechs, payment companies, marketplaces, remittance operators, and regulators across Kenya and East Africa.

Supports the CEO by managing calendars, email, meetings, board and investor operations, expenses, invoices, renewals, research, briefing materials, and documentation. Coordinates across multiple time zones, protects executive focus time, tracks commitments, and handles confidential information. This is a part-time contract role requiring regular in-person availability in Brooklyn or Manhattan.

Own end-to-end product strategy and execution for fintech products across credit, savings, payments, foreign exchange, and new ventures. Lead discovery, roadmap prioritization, technical specifications, AI-assisted development, delivery, launches, stakeholder alignment, and post-launch metric ownership. Work directly with customers and production data, ship code when appropriate, coordinate engineering and business teams, and translate financial regulations into product requirements.