WealthTech Product Lead

Role Overview

WealthTech Product Lead at Alpheya, Abu Dhabi.

Company Overview

Alpheya is a B2B WealthTech startup backed by BNY Mellon and Lunate, with $300M raised to build a state-of-the-art wealth technology platform. The company serves banks and financial institutions in the Middle East, enabling them to grow and penetrate affluent, HNW, and UHNW investor segments. Alpheya operates as a startup with truly cross-functional and agile teams while leveraging the capabilities of large organizations.

Role Purpose

Shape the future of the B2B Wealth platform by owning the roadmap for multi-asset trading, ledger, portfolio management, Discretionary Portfolio Management (DPM), robo-advisory, and omnichannel journeys. Drive impactful product enhancements and champion a user-centric culture of innovation across web, mobile, and other channels.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Ownership

• Own the Wealth product roadmap across trading, portfolio, and ledger from ideation to implementation.
• Balance technical feasibility and market relevance in roadmap prioritization.
• Drive data-driven insights using market research and competitor analysis to inform strategic pivots and product decisions.
• Turn business problems into complete, technically grounded specifications that engineering can build.
• Define what success looks like, what is explicitly out of scope, and what decisions need to be made before a line of code is written.

Customer-Centric Development

• Spearhead successful product development by guiding the platform through iterative, hypothesis-driven cycles.
• Deliver features that delight users and move key financial metrics.
• Champion customer-centricity by thinking holistically across customer journeys.
• Prioritize the roadmap to eliminate friction points for target segments.
• Track record of hypothesis-driven, user-centric product development.

AI & Innovation

• Embed AI-native product development and features into the platform.
• Use AI as a core work practice, well-versed in AI tooling as a standard part of daily work.
• Active, demonstrated use of AI coding and product tools (Claude, Cursor, or equivalent) as part of daily workflow.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Forge impactful partnerships with design, engineering, data science, and leadership to ensure seamless execution and alignment.
• Drive cross-functional alignment across engineering, design, data science, and leadership.
• Work closely with engineering teams to define API documentation before the first consuming team builds against it.
• Work directly with protocols such as REST and FIX.

Multi-Channel Experience Design

• Deliver seamless multi-channel experiences across web, mobile, and beyond.
• Ensure tight B2B2C integration for bank and financial-institution clients.

Quality & Technical Standards

• Set and defend the quality bar by defining non-functional requirements covering performance, reliability, security, and data integrity.
• Design and translate technical contracts with engineering teams.

Measurement & Instrumentation

• Instrument and measure what you ship by defining telemetry as part of the brief.
• Ensure user funnel visibility, system performance across the full stack, error breakdown by category, and business outcome metrics.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor's degree or higher in IT engineering, computer science, business, finance, or a related field.
• Proven experience as a Product Owner or Product Manager in a B2B or B2B2C SaaS fintech, trading, or wealth management environment.
• Domain knowledge of wealth management and portfolio management services including DPM, robo-advisory, trading, ledger, or similar.
• Technical acumen to navigate solution design trade-offs.
• Hands-on experience building or prototyping mobile applications that integrate real APIs.
• Prior hands-on experience in software engineering or building 0-to-1 products is a plus.

Skills & Competencies

• Strong analytical skills, turning complex data into actionable, strategic insight.
• Proficiency in Agile methodologies and SaaS metrics (e.g. ARR).
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
• Fluent written English; Arabic a plus.
• Ownership mindset and a "yes, and" attitude.
• Thrives in a fast-paced startup environment.