Principal Product Manager, Growth (GCC)

Job Description:

About the Role:

Were looking for a Principal Product Manager to join our Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) team and own how Remitly wins across the region (Saudi Arabia the UAE Qatar Kuwait Bahrain and Oman).

As a Principal Product Manager youll own the GCC growth charter end to end: setting the vision strategy and roadmap securing buy in from regional and global leadership and being accountable for company level OKRs. Youll lead as much through influence as through direct ownership raising the bar on product craft and helping the team thoughtfully incorporate AI into how we work learn and build. Youll report to the General Manager and partner closely with regional business leaders Compliance and Risk and global Product Engineering Design and Analytics teams.

This is a builders role. Were looking for a hands-on product talent who embraces AI as a force multiplier across the product development lifecycle. The right candidate will leverage modern AI tools to accelerate customer research ideation prototyping experimentation and execution while maintaining strong product judgment and a deep understanding of customer needs. Youll pair fintech expertise with a relentless growth mindset to attract new customers across the Gulf convert them into active senders and deepen their long term engagement and lifetime value.

You Will:

Own the GCC growth strategy and roadmap. Develop a deep understanding of Gulf customers market dynamics competitive trends and regulatory developments to define a high impact roadmap. You will be accountable for driving acquisition activation retention and revenue outcomes across the region.

Act as the regional product leader. Partner closely with business compliance risk engineering design analytics and operations leaders to identify growth opportunities align priorities and ensure successful execution. Influence decisions well beyond your direct area of ownership.

Build deep customer and market expertise. Develop genuine empathy for migrant and expatriate senders understanding their needs for trust speed transparency affordability and payout reliability. Use customer insights to identify opportunities and remove friction across the customer journey.

Leverage AI to accelerate product development. Use modern AI tools to enhance customer research discovery experimentation analysis and product development. Help the organization identify opportunities where AI can improve customer experiences increase operational efficiency and accelerate learning.

Prototype and validate ideas quickly. Use prototypes AI assisted development tools and rapid experimentation techniques to turn concepts into tangible experiences that teams and customers can evaluate. Reduce the time between idea generation and validated learning.

Run a high velocity experimentation engine. Partner with engineering analytics and design to build test and iterate quickly. Design rigorous experiments evaluate outcomes and scale successful acquisition activation retention and referral strategies.

Navigate fintech complexity with confidence. Deliver innovative experiences while operating within highly regulated environments. Work effectively across KYC AML fraud risk payments FX and regulatory requirements partnering closely with Compliance and Risk teams to enable growth responsibly.

Partner with engineering on critical technical decisions. Translate business and customer problems into clear technical opportunities evaluate tradeoffs and influence architectural decisions that impact speed scalability resilience and long term flexibility.

Collaborate with design to create intuitive and culturally relevant experiences. Ensure products resonate with a multilingual mobile first customer base while maintaining a high bar for usability and customer delight.

Drive data informed decision making. Partner with analytics to define success metrics evaluate business impact identify opportunities and guide investment decisions through a combination of quantitative analysis and customer insight.

Raise the bar across the organization. Mentor product managers and cross functional partners share best practices and help shape how product management is practiced across the region and company.

Communicate with clarity and influence. Align executives cross functional teams and external stakeholders around strategy priorities tradeoffs and results.

You Have:

Must-haves

10 years of product management experience ideally in fintech payments or another regulated high-trust consumer domain with a track record of product-led growth across acquisition retention and revenue.

A genuine builder. You prototype your own ideas. Youre fluent with modern AI tools (e.g. agentic coding assistants and LLM-based prototyping research and analysis tools) and use them to move faster and validate sooner. You can show working prototypes not just decks.

Fintech depth. You understand money movement and the constraints that come with it KYC/AML fraud and risk FX and pay-in and payout rails and the realities of building under financial regulation.

Exceptional analytical and structured problem-solving skills with hands-on experience in product analytics and experimentation / A/B testing tools (e.g. Statsig Google Analytics Amplitude or Mixpanel) and comfort analyzing ambiguous data.

A track record of setting product strategy roadmapping and prioritization at a scope and level of ambiguity consistent with a Principal / L4 PM owning a product suite of products or company-level initiative end-to-end.

A founder mindset and strong bias for action you want to roll up your sleeves and drive impact from day one and youre equally comfortable operating in the weeds and at 30000 feet.

A strategic customer-obsessed mindset with the ability to identify the highest-impact friction and define the bets that delight customers and compound growth.

Experience improving acquisition and retention through growth loops and compelling product experiences that drive engagement and NPV.

Strong written and verbal communication with the ability to align engineering design data and business partners around a shared data-driven vision.

End-to-end product ownership from customer discovery and market research through go-to-market execution and iteration.

Nice-to-haves

Experience building for the GCC or the broader MENA market or for migrant expat or emerging-market consumers.

Familiarity with the Gulf regulatory environment (SAMA CBUAE) and the regional payments ecosystem.

Arabic language skills or experience shipping multilingual and localized products.

Experience building or integrating AI/ML-powered product features in production.

Our Benefits:

• Medical Dental & Vision Insurance

• Life Insurance & Income Protection

• Housing Allowance

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Commuter Reimbursement

• Mental Health & Family Forming benefits

• Learning & development benefits

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation Together

At Remitly we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster. For corporate team members we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly typically achieved by coming in three days a week. This creates a consistent meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs. Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their teams specific needs. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships fueling creativity and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.