The Role
Lead product management team for foundational platforms at Greenlight, driving strategy, scalability, compliance, and innovation across product lines.
Summary Generated by Built In
Greenlight is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. We proudly serve more than 6 million parents and kids with our award-winning banking app for families. With Greenlight, parents can automate allowance, manage chores, set flexible spend controls, and invest for their family’s future. Kids and teens learn to earn, save, spend wisely, and invest.
At Greenlight, we believe every child should have the opportunity to become financially healthy and happy. It’s no small task, and that’s why we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better, brighter future for the next generation depends on it.
We are seeking a Director of Product Management to lead our India-based product management team responsible for foundational platform capabilities that power our financial services ecosystem. This is a highly strategic and technical leadership role that sits at the center of our architecture, enabling scale, compliance, and innovation across multiple products serving the U.S. consumer market. You will own and evolve a portfolio of mission-critical platforms that are reused across multiple product lines and directly impact customer experience, regulatory adherence, moneitzation, and operational efficiency.
This role requires a strong technical product leader with deep platform experience, excellent systems thinking, and demonstrated success leading high-performing teams. In addition to directly managing a small team of product managers, you will also serve as the most senior product leader for the India site, helping elevate product craft, operating rigor, and cross-functional alignment.
What you will be doing:
- Define and drive the long-term strategy and roadmap for core platform capabilities.
- Ensure platform services are scalable, secure, compliant, extensible, and reusable across the organization.
- Balance immediate product team needs with long-term architectural integrity.
- Identify and drive opportunities to leverage AI both in product execution as well as within platform capabilities
- Proven experience owning and scaling complex, distributed systems.
- Experience in fintech, financial services, SaaS, or other regulated industries strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success building reusable platforms used by multiple internal teams.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Directly lead, mentor, and grow a team of platform product managers responsible for core Greenlight platforms
- Strong systems thinker with ability to see cross-domain dependencies.
- Exceptional stakeholder management across geographies.
- Experience operating in a US–India distributed team model.
- Ability to balance long-term platform health with short-term business demands.
- Act as a senior product leader for the India office, strengthening product operations, the product craft, and cross-functional collaboration with Engineering, Design, Data, Risk, Compliance, and Operations.
- Hands on experience and a deep understanding of the strengths and trade-offs of leading AI tools with demonstrated ability to build, deploy, and iterate on AI projects.
What you should bring:
- 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 5+ years in platform product management.
- 3+ years of people management experience leading product managers.
- Proven experience owning and scaling complex, distributed systems.
- Experience in fintech, financial services, SaaS, or other regulated industries strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated success building reusable platforms used by multiple internal teams.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.
- Experience with identity systems, billing/subscription systems, or compliance platforms preferred.
- Ability to engage deeply with engineering on architecture decisions and trade-offs.
- Comfort with data models, system integrations, and platform scalability challenges.
- Hands on experience and a deep understanding of the strengths and trade-offs of leading AI tools with demonstrated ability to build, deploy, and iterate on AI projects.
- Exceptional stakeholder management across geographies.
- Experience operating in a US–India distributed team model.
Domain Ownership:
- Identity & Access Management: authentication, authorization, RBAC/ABAC, SSO, multi-factor authentication, and fraud-resistant identity systems.
- Accounts Platform: user lifecycle management, account hierarchy, permissions, data governance.
- Pricing & Plans: flexible product configuration, entitlements, packaging, experimentation support.
- Billing Platform: subscription management, invoicing, payments integration, financial reconciliation, reporting.
- Notifications Platform: multi-channel delivery (email, SMS, push), templating, orchestration, and reliability.
- Risk & Compliance Systems: policy engines, rule frameworks, AI/ML models, monitoring, auditability, regulatory compliance controls.
Why This Role Matters:
- Platform is the backbone of our product ecosystem. This leader will directly influence:
- How we scale new products and features
- How we manage risk and regulatory compliance
- How we monetize effectively
- How we deliver secure, seamless customer experiences
- This is a high-impact leadership opportunity to shape the foundational architecture of a growing financial technology organization while building and leading a world-class product team in India.
Education:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field required.
- MBA or advanced technical degree preferred but not required.
Who we are:
It takes a special team to aim for a never-been-done-before mission like ours. We’re looking for people who love working together because they know it makes us stronger, people who look to others and ask, “How can I help?” and then “How can we make this even better?” If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and help create a world where every child grows up to be happy and healthy in money and life, apply to join our team.
Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on age, race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.
Greenlight is committed to an inclusive work environment and interview experience. If you require reasonable accommodations to participate in our hiring process, please reach out to your recruiter directly or email [email protected].
Top Skills
AI
APIs
Distributed Systems
Event-Driven Architectures
Microservices
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The Company
What We Do
Greenlight is a debit card and money app for families. Our mission is to shine a light on the world of money for families and empower parents to raise financially-smart kids. Millions of parents and kids use Greenlight to earn, save, spend wisely, give and invest. Parents can set flexible spend controls, manage chores, automate allowances and invest for their kids’ futures. The Greenlight team calls Atlanta home, but we have team members across the country. We’re pet enthusiasts, PTA presidents, fantasy football champs, kickball-mates and volunteer dance teachers. We’re backed by Drive Capital, JP Morgan Chase, Wells Fargo, TTV Capital, Relay Ventures, NEA, Amazon, Ally Financial, SunTrust Bank and Synchrony Financial. We were picked for CB Insights’ Fintech 250.
