SPM/ Lead Product Manager, Upvest
Tooling
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Investment API
Open for applications
Investment API
101-200 employees
Open for applications
More information about location
101-200 employees
Company mission
Upvest's mission is to make investing as easy as spending money and to enable businesses to build investment experiences their customers love.
Role
Who you are
- You have 4-5 years experience working in Product Management roles - ideally with focus on internal and/or external tooling. Experience in financial services, compliance or FinTech is a big plus
- You have a firm grasp of UI / UX best practices and can capably ideate & prototype through lo-fi wireframes + collaborate strongly with your design peers
- You’ve got a strong track record of taking initiative, someone who owns outcomes, bridges dependencies and pushes value for its stakeholders
- Be a sponge! We don’t need you to be a finance or trading industry expert. But you will need to be able to absorb knowledge on complicated topics quickly (subledger reconciliation, mutual fund trading flow) and combine with your expertise on product management best practices
- Your experience with agile software development methodologies allows you to build and deliver features/outcomes consistently
- Experience with product manager’s toolkits - such as product discovery, ticketing and documentation software (e.g., Linear, Slite, Miro, Figma etc.)
What the job involves
- The Tooling team (as part of the Custody tribe) is responsible for enabling Upvest’s Operations, Risk and Banking teams with user-centric applications to allow them to execute their daily work
- Your challenge is to provide those teams with such effective tools that their headcount does not significantly need to rise; otherwise known as asymmetric scaling
- Empower the Tooling Applications domain team to reach its full potential, working with 4-5 full stack engineers, 1 Product designer and the custody tribe’s Head of Product and Head of Engineering
- Collaborate directly and build relationships with the Operations, Banking and Risk teams; understand their challenges to delight them with value-adding tools
- You are responsible for effective tactical planning through OKRs and own the domain roadmap
- Use your knowledge of the market and industry trends to influence and help shape the team’s roadmap & vision
- Lead the charge to expand Upvest’s current API offering with a commercial back-office tooling product (this will include a dedicated PM and a dedicated Engineering team in the future)
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 (Earlybird, Notion Capital, Partech, HV Capital, ABN AMRO Ventures) alongside American investment monolith BlackRock. In 2023 it closed a VC investment round which the company has claimed is one of the largest in the German fintech arena. Its impressive capital raise will go some way to achieving Upvest's goals of profitability as it expands into the US market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Dec 2024
$105.1m
SERIES C
Oct 2023
$31.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $196.1m
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 values
- Learn and grow - We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback, knowing that we develop together. We value progression over perfection
- Team first - We make it easy for others. We value our differences and are open to others’ opinions. We win and celebrate together. We nurture teams, not egos
- Own the outcome - Whether we win or lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. There are many ways to reach the outcome
- Tell the story - We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. We value transparency over complexity
Company HQ
Wrangelkiez, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Martin Kassing
(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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