Product Manager (Fintech) at Smartcat

1 year ago Product Senior Full-Time

Smartcat is a fully remote startup company. We are creating an operating system for the global translation industry. Your personal mission will be to leverage our unique vertical SaaS combined with the industry-tailored fintech component. Develop the financial offering, and bring us above 1 billion dollars in yearly transaction volume in 3–3.5 years.

Outstanding achievement as a product manager for fintech, b2b SaaS, or marketplace platforms with a focus on product-led growth
At least five years of experience working as a product manager or a product owner
Ability to deeply understand the Smartcat product strategy and the platform’s functionality. We are building a market network for the global language industry while engaging several sides of the marketplace and running several products combined in the all-in-one platform offering
Fluent in English, both written and spoken
Exceptional communication skills in interacting with colleagues, customers, and partners
Growth-oriented mindset
Aggressive drive for growth and a high tolerance for uncertainty and risk
Exceptional commitment to evidence- and data-informed decision-making
Integrity, full commitment, and a strong sense of ownership
Readiness to work in a highly intense startup environment, requiring extreme focus, a sense of urgency, and persistence to break through
Openness to feedback and alternative opinions and ideas
Comfortable working with remote teams across time zones
Easy-going personality, high tolerance to cultural differences

Smartcat is a fully remote startup company. We are creating an operating system for the global translation industry. Our team believes that the world becomes ever-more connected and interdependent. The borders that prevent people from trading, working together, and exchanging knowledge and innovations erode over time. That is the future we want to live in. Our mission is to speed up the pace at which that happens, building the best platform for Connected Translation. We don’t believe automation will render language professionals obsolete. Instead, we place powerful software into the hands of the millions of people working to globalize their own industries, plug them into our global supply network, and enable continuous delivery of multilingual content. With tens of thousands of customers and hundreds of thousands of freelancers translating together on Smartcat, we are well on our way.

Mission

Smartcat develops collaboration software that allows a multi-sided marketplace of brands, agencies, and freelance linguists to translate content together. Supported by our integrated payment and translation automation engines, our suite becomes the central hub for localization work.

Your personal mission will be to leverage our unique vertical SaaS combined with the industry-tailored fintech component. Develop the financial offering, and bring us above 1 billion dollars in yearly transaction volume in 3–3.5 years.

You will work with several dedicated engineers, designers, BI analysts, and QA engineers (10-15 people) to ensure product adoption and growth. You will own the process of tracking usage data, defining product improvement hypotheses, planning the long-term roadmap and the day-to-day work, tracking the execution, and delivering results on time. You will have a unique opportunity to work on the verge of modern linguistic technologies and drive the whole language industry forward.

Your outcomes will be

Complete the Smartcat fintech component strategy and roadmap, and own it going forward while increasing LTV and making the product more likely to be used indefinitely.
Own the development of the fintech component:
Unified user’s finance account (multi-currency balance, pay-in & pay-outs)
Transactional engine to maintain all financial transactions for all Smartcat’s products
Diversified ways to process payments (bank cards, wire transfers, PayPal, crypto (future))
Internal products management system (packages, prices, subscription tiers, etc.)
Own the financial services revenue objective, achieve 30% QoQ growth in Q4 2022 and maintain it throughout the following two years.
Build and champion the process of revenue expansion based on customer usage data and proactive recommendation of next-level fintech products

Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far

The ongoing rise of the content economy is causing a massive shift in the language industry. All today’s megatrends — big data, artificial intelligence, machine learning — are converging in it at lightning speed. Smartcat’s disruptive business model taps into this $50b industry with a market network where buyers and suppliers connect, collaborate, and leverage our free-to-use workflow SaaS. The next decade will be the era of market networks and reinventing the $10 trillion service economy, and we’re pioneering this global transformation in all things language-related
You will enjoy building with us. You will drive changes in how an old-fashioned global language industry operates while improving how hundreds of thousands of people work, and millions of people exchange knowledge and ideas in the world
While the language industry is big and fragmented enough to keep us busy building a billion-dollar company in the next few years, we are already seeing how the network naturally expands to adjacent language and content-related verticals, expanding our TAM and making our journey even more exciting
We are a global team of 150+ enthusiastic people, with hubs in Boston, London and Yerevan — and our users and partners are scattered all around the globe. We’re eager to succeed and transform the world of language services for the better. We grow aggressively while preserving our culture of empathy. As diverse as we are, we love working and having fun together, and we’re sure you’ll love working with us too
Smartcat is backed by Matrix Partners, FJ Labs, and other top VC firms focusing on SaaS and marketplace startups (you might recognize names like HubSpot, Zendesk, Uber, Stripe, RigUp and Quora in their portfolios). This helps us innovate at a fast pace and learn from top professionals in other industries.