Senior Product Manager

Who We Are

NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and movement becomes momentum. As a global platform revolutionising access to performance-based capital, we empower the world’s most driven individuals to rise. Through our flagship brand, FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers, and potential to turn into performance. With 500+ driven minds across five countries, we power a global rhythm—220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations, each chasing greatness in their own way.

Your Role in Our Mission

As a Senior Product Manager at NEXT Ventures, you will define the strategic direction of a key product domain, shaping long-term vision, identifying high-impact opportunities, and aligning product priorities with business goals. Your experience across areas such as Payments, Shared Services, UX, and Mobile Applications will help inform where you can make the greatest product impact across NEXT Ventures. You will partner with business and technology leaders to influence strategic decisions, drive innovation, and build products that deliver lasting customer and business value

How You’ll Make an Impact

Product Vision & Strategy

- Own and drive the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for key areas of the trading and brokerage ecosystem.
- Identify opportunities to improve customer experiences, operational efficiency, and commercial performance through market research, competitor analysis, and customer insights.
- Translate business objectives, customer needs, and regulatory considerations into clear product priorities and measurable outcomes.
- Drive product discovery and evaluate new opportunities across trading platforms, brokerage services, and supporting financial products.

Product Ownership & Execution

- Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle, from discovery and requirements gathering to development, launch, and continuous improvement.
- Own and prioritise the product backlog, developing clear product requirement documents, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Work closely with Engineering, Design, QA, and Operations teams to ensure effective planning, high-quality delivery, and timely releases.
- Oversee integrations and enhancements across trading platforms, CRM systems, client portals, and internal back-office solutions.
- Drive improvements across critical customer journeys, including registration, KYC, account opening, deposits, withdrawals, and Introducing Broker (IB) operations.
- Lead internal rollouts, stakeholder alignment, and training to ensure successful adoption of new products and features.

Product Performance & Optimisation

- Define and monitor product KPIs, using data, customer feedback, and business insights to guide product decisions.
- Identify friction points across the customer journey and drive initiatives to improve onboarding, activation, transaction success, and retention.
- Drive measurable improvements in customer sign-up time and operational turnaround across the brokerage ecosystem.
- Apply prioritisation frameworks such as RICE, Kano, and impact-effort analysis to balance customer value, business impact, and engineering capacity.
- Establish feedback loops and continuous improvement practices to ensure products remain competitive, reliable, and scalable.

Technical, Risk & Regulatory Collaboration

- Collaborate with Engineering teams on APIs, database structures, system architecture, and third-party integrations.
- Work with Compliance, Risk, and Operations to ensure product requirements align with applicable regulatory obligations and internal controls.
- Evaluate technical solutions and emerging technologies, including AI-enabled capabilities and agentic workflows, to identify practical opportunities for product innovation.
- Balance product usability, technical feasibility, security, scalability, and regulatory requirements throughout the development lifecycle.

What You Bring

- 7+ years of Product Management experience, with a track record of owning complex products and shaping product strategy in fintech, technology, or digital-first environments.
- Experience driving product vision, domain roadmaps, and strategic initiatives beyond day-to-day feature delivery.
- Strong expertise in at least one of the following areas:

Prop Trading & Futures Products: Mobile product strategy, customer-facing applications, digital journeys, user experience optimisation, and app growth for prop trading and/or futures products.
- Payments & Financial Products: Payment gateways, processing, acquiring, issuing, wallets, transaction infrastructure, or financial workflows.

- Strong commercial acumen and the ability to evaluate opportunities based on business value, customer impact, and long-term growth.
- Analytical and strategic thinking skills, with experience using product data, customer insights, and market research to guide decisions.
- Technical fluency to engage in discussions around APIs, integrations, system architecture, databases, and platform capabilities.
- Sufficient AI literacy to evaluate AI technologies, agent frameworks, and emerging applications from a product perspective.
- Experience influencing senior stakeholders and aligning cross-functional teams around a shared product vision.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, IT, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field.

Your X-Factor

- Strategic Product Thinking: You see beyond individual features and connect product decisions to broader business outcomes.
- Domain Depth: You bring meaningful expertise in payments or mobile and app-focused products.
- Commercial Mindset: You understand how product decisions influence revenue, customer acquisition, retention, and operational efficiency.
- Ownership & Influence: You navigate ambiguity, challenge assumptions, and influence senior stakeholders.
- Customer-First Innovation: You combine customer empathy with commercial and technical understanding.
- Future-Focused Perspective: You translate emerging technologies into practical product opportunities.

Your Journey after Applying

- 30 minute HR interview with the Talent Acquisition team member

- 45 minute Problem Solving Interview
- 60-minute Bar Raiser Interview

Why Join NEXT

At NEXT Ventures, we believe the right talent fuels breakthrough innovation. If you're driven to connect great minds with big ideas and want to shape the future of fintech, we’d love to meet you. Join our team of bold thinkers where technology meets transformation.

Apply now and be part of our journey — the future is calling, and it starts with you.