Pontera is a fintech company on a mission to help people retire better. Our software platform enables retirement savers to get the help they need managing their 401(k) and other retirement plan accounts as part of a personalized strategy by their trusted financial advisor.
Pontera is used by financial advisors across the nation– from SMB to Fortune 500 RIA firms, independent broker-dealers, plan custodians, and plan advisors.
Backed by leading venture capital firms including ICONIQ Growth and Lightspeed Venture Partners, Pontera is built by talented individuals who share a dedication to helping people retire with greater security.
Our team is fast-growing and driven to become one of the largest fintech companies in the world. Our culture is built on a people-first principle: in a complex and numbers-driven industry, we never lose sight of the people we serve and work alongside. That’s where you come in.
We’re looking for a Technical Product Manager team leader, who combines deep technical expertise with strong leadership and product strategy skills. In this role, you’ll lead a team of Product Managers and work closely with engineering, operations, and cross-functional stakeholders to shape backend systems that drive our core offerings — helping us deliver faster, smarter, and more scalable solutions.
You’ll be responsible for planning and executing complex technical initiatives, overseeing a team, and ensuring technical alignment with business goals.
- Manage and mentor a team of Product Managers
- Provide clear direction, set priorities, and foster a collaborative team environment
- Lead sprint planning, long-term product strategy sessions, and team ceremonies
Technical Ownership
- Develop and maintain yearly technical plans for key initiatives
- Define and scope new backend services and systems
- Lead optimization efforts to improve system performance and job execution speed
- Translate new backend requirements into actionable plans
- Lead initiatives with 3rd parties, such as API integrations
Product Leadership
- Prioritize initiatives based on user impact, frequency, and system needs
- Drive and document processes, ensuring clarity and shared understanding across teams
- Build and maintain a technical roadmap
- Facilitate communication across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Plan and lead sprint cycles and long-term product planning sessions
- 2+ years of experience as a Technical Product Manager, ideally backend-focused environments
- 2+ years of experience in a technical development role
- Proven experience managing or leading a team, either formally or informally
- Experience leading cross-functional teams or engineering squads is a plus
- Strong understanding of backend systems, APIs, and infrastructure performance
- Clear, structured communication style—both written and verbal (in both Hebrew and English)
- Comfortable prioritizing complex technical work while aligning with broader product goals
- Strong leadership skills, with a passion for mentorship and collaboration with teammates, creation and constant improvement of work processes,. fostering a high-performing team environment
- Experience working in a dynamic, fast-paced, agile environment
- Experience with JIRA, Monday, Tableau - a plus
- Bachelor's degree in business, engineering, computer science, or a related field - a plus
- Opportunity: Have a major impact at a fast-growing startup that is revolutionizing the FinTech industry
- Team Culture: A collegial, collaborative, fun work environment with frequent team events
- Equity: All new hires are eligible for equity grant participation
- Professional Development: Sponsored learning & development programs
- Work Flexibility: A hybrid office work model (In-Office Mon/Tues/Weds and WFH Sun//Thurs)
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What We Do
Pontera is a Fintech company that helps financial advisors report on, manage, and trade their clients' held-away accounts, including 401(k)s, 403(b)s, HSAs and more. The platform is designed to work across account types and integrate seamlessly into existing technology to help advisors improve their clients' financial outcomes. Founded in 2012, Pontera is headquartered in New York City.
At the core of our team is a strong belief that helping people retire comfortably is of critical importance. Pontera is designed to help advisors not only analyze their clients’ held away accounts to provide greater visibility, but to enable advisors to take action and manage accounts on their clients’ behalf, improving the client experience, potentially adding accretive performance, and helping to mitigate compliance and security concerns around managing held away accounts.
Each of us believes strongly in the mission of helping millions of people achieve the best retirement possible.
Why Work With Us
We are proud of our People-First mentality and culture. You will have the unique and exciting opportunity to be part of a team whose mission is to scale Pontera into one of the largest FinTech companies in the world.
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