Head of Product, Upvest
Clients
+ Equity
Investment API
Open for applications
Investment API
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make investing as easy as spending money and to enable businesses to build investment experiences their customers love.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years in Product Management, ideally with a focus on internal and/or external tooling. Financial services, compliance, or fintech experience is a big plus
- Proven people leadership of teams of 3+ people
- Firm grasp of UI/UX best practices; can ideate and prototype through lo-fi wireframes and collaborate closely with design
- Strong track record of taking initiative, owning outcomes, and bridging dependencies
- Be a sponge. You don't need to be a finance or investment expert, but you'll need to absorb complex topics quickly (subledger reconciliation, mutual fund trading flow) and apply strong product fundamentals
- Experience with agile software development, delivering features and outcomes consistently
- Comfortable with product toolkits such as Linear, Slite, Miro, and Figma
- Familiarity with API documentation standards and an interest in how AI agents consume APIs (MCP or similar) is a strong plus
What the job involves
- As Upvest continues to scale, we are looking for an exceptional Head of Product - Clients
- You will work closely with Florian Thiel, Christian Wöhlke, and the Product & Engineering teams of the tribe (3 domain teams in total). In addition you will need to build strong relations with the Operations, Banking and Commercial leadership teams, owning topics critical to Upvest's product and business success
- As Head of Product, you start leading one of the Clients tribe teams directly, while guiding the overarching strategy and success of the Clients Tribe and you start scaling yourself
- You will work very closely with the Director of Engineering and VP of Product to define the tribe's strategy, set OKRs, and shape the long-term roadmap
- The goal: to power Upvest's asymmetric scaling by building the intelligent, seamless "AI-experience", internal and external, that makes flawless API experiences the foundation of Upvest's ecosystem
- Your challenge is to make our tools and workflows scale without lockstep headcount growth
- That means embedding intelligence and automation into every process, and exploring how agentic operations, AI agents handling operational workflows end to end, can take on work that today needs manual effort
- You'll be the go-to voice for applied AI across our tooling, helping the business run efficiently and helping clients get to market faster, at lower cost and higher reliability
- You'll own the roadmap for Internal Tooling or Upfront, both key strategic product enablers for scaling the business, and drive it forward through OKRs, deciding where to push deeper automation, broaden coverage, or reimagine a workflow entirely
- You'll work directly with the Engineering team, and stay close to the people the products serve, so every step forward is one that truly matters
- Significant impact and strategic influence, shaping the roadmap and scaling strategy with a seat at the table with engineering and product leadership
- Autonomy coupled with inspirational leadership. You fully own the product success of your team and function
- Product-centricity throughout the organisation, with no struggle for relevance that product people may encounter elsewhere
- Product Engineering culture, working closely with engineering counterparts guided by joint OKRs and a clear roadmap
- An exceptional team, combining impactful work with a relaxed, fun atmosphere and consistently high eNPS
- Continuous learning across investments, API products, and a state-of-the-art tech stack
Our take
Upvest is a fintech startup that empowers financial services companies to provide their customers with access to a full range of financial assets, including stocks, ETFs and crypto products. Upvest's investment API integrates seamlessly with its customers existing systems and is designed to scale easily, freeing companies from the need to develop their own brokerage and custody infrastructure from scratch.
As one of the few companies in Germany that is licensed for both the custody of traditional securities and crypto, Upvest is able to provide its services across Europe. Its solution has been readily adopted by some major players in the space including Ginmon, Vivid and ABN AMRO.
Upvest is backed by a number of Europe's largest tech VCs, alongside American investment monolith BlackRock. In 2023, it closed a VC investment round that one of the largest in the German fintech arena. It has gone on to secure further funding which supports ventures such as absorbing the complexity of new local tax wrappers, rolling out AI-supported investment engines, and speeding up the rate at which clients can bring pension products to market .
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Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Mar 2026
$90m
LATE VC
Dec 2024
$105.1m
SERIES C
Total funding: $289.8m
Company benefits
- Greenfield projects - We’re building something quite complex. A first in Europe. This means you get to work with cutting-edge technologies, with no legacy code.
- Wellbeing - Everyone here has access to our in-house coach. You can have regular sessions to support you personally and professionally. We also believe it’s important to have time out to rest and recover, which is why we offer 30 days’ holiday.
- Development - In keeping with one of our values, ‘Learn and grow’, every Upvenger has access to a development budget. And in line with one of our other values, ‘Own the outcome’, how you make the most of it is up to you.
- Flexibility - We work in a hybrid set-up, with the team spread around Germany and other parts of Europe. We give you the choice and budget to work where you’re most comfortable and productive, either at home or in the office. You choose.
Company HQ
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Martin Kassing
(Founder & CEO)They have experience in fintech, private equity and capital markets. Founded another fintech, Shop.co, which was acquired by Klarna.
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