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Head of Product / Product Lead

Type
Full-time
Location
Fully remote
Reporting To
CEO
Salary
Benchmarked to experience
Experience
Senior, 5+ years in product, including 3+ in fintech

About Us

Altify is a London-headquartered fintech with a global team across the UK, Europe, and South Africa (FSP No. 5272 and 53289). The business is backed by leading VC and Angel investors.

Altify's grown to serve over 80,000 clients and was named KPMG's Tech Innovator of the Year for Southern Africa in 2025.

The fintech operates through three divisions.

  1. App Brokerage: A mobile app and web platform that makes accessing the world's most valuable onchain alternative investments as simple as buying shares. AI is embedded into the core user experience to act as an investing assistant — supporting clients build wealth more intelligently.
  2. Institutional Trading Division: Offering bespoke OTC brokerage, market-making, and stablecoin minting services to licensed financial service providers, HNWIs, and FX desks.
  3. Licensing-as-a-Service: We provide regulatory licensing umbrella coverage to international fintechs enabling them to accelerate their market entry into South Africa.

Position Summary

We're looking for a Product Lead to own what gets built at Altify, and why. You'll work directly with the CEO, our engineering team, and our external design and development partners. You decide what ships. This is a hands-on role in an early-stage business for someone who thrives where product, design, and digital assets collide.

Your Core Focus

  • Owning the full product roadmap and deciding what gets built, and in what order.
  • Turning strategy into designs, specifications, and tickets that engineering can act on immediately.
  • Designing in Figma every day, to a high standard.
  • Using AI tooling, the Claude suite in particular, as a core part of how you think, specify, and build.
  • Testing, breaking, and improving the platform as a genuine user of it.
  • Moving between discovery, design, specification, delivery, and testing in the same day, often across more than one product at once.
  • Working across engineering, compliance, marketing, and operations. This is the least linear role in the company.

You'll thrive here if you have a real understanding of digital assets, invest yourself, and have strong opinions about every investing app you've ever used. We're not looking for someone who has read about this market. We're looking for someone who is already in it.

Qualifications, Work Experience, and Skills

Required

  • More than 5 years in product, including at least one product owned end to end, from discovery through launch and iteration.
  • Deep working knowledge of digital assets — broad fintech experience is not a substitute.
  • An active personal investor across traditional and digital assets — you can say exactly what's wrong with the platforms you use.
  • Professional-level proficiency across the Claude suite (ex: Claude, Claude Code, and Claude in Chrome). Every other skill in this spec builds on that foundation.
  • Advanced Figma — you design, you don't only review other people's designs.
  • Cloud native — collaborative documents and browser-based tools are second nature.
  • Early-stage experience at a startup, a scale-up, or a venture of your own. You're comfortable with very little process, and you build it yourself.
  • Exceptional attention to detail.
  • Able to hold several threads at once and switch between them quickly without dropping any.
  • Exceptional written and verbal communication.

Preferred

  • Experience in a regulated financial services environment (FSCA, FCA, or VARA). You understand that in digital assets, compliance shapes the product rather than fighting it.
  • Hands-on exposure to tokenised or real-world assets — RWA platforms, tokenised funds, or on-chain investment products. You know where this market is heading because you're already in it.
  • Product growth experience on an investing or trading platform — driving acquisition or retention through the product itself, not marketing spend. You see the product as the growth engine that turns first-time investors into lifelong clients.

Perks & Benefits

  • Top-quartile compensation.
  • Fully remote work flexibility.
  • A budget for your home office setup.
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