Associate Product Manager - Governance (f/m/d)

Upvest is on a mission to make investing as easy as spending money. The company empowers businesses to offer a wide range of investment products and the best experience in the field of capital market investment and retirement planning. Upvest’s Investment API is easy to integrate so that fintechs and enterprises alike can save resources and fully focus on their core business.‍

Upvest is one of the few fintechs in Europe that can provide its B2B clients with the full range of investment opportunities in the areas of principal broking business, proprietary trading, and safe custody business for traditional securities. Upvest’s clients include some of the biggest Fintechs in Europe such as Revolut, N26 and Raisin. The company was founded in 2017 by Martin Kassing and currently employs more than 180 people across Europe. Its latest €100m fundraising round (Series C) was led by Hedosophia and Sapphire Venture, with continued support from existing investors including Bessemer Venture Partners, BlackRock, Earlybird, HV Capital, Motive Ventures, and Notion Capital.

We’re looking for fintech enthusiasts to join us in creating the financial infrastructure of tomorrow. We’re building the first European Investment API to enable any financial institution offering a wide range of efficient and transparent investment products, such as stocks and ETFs in nominal, portfolio, and fractional form. Our mission and vision is to make investing as easy as spending money.

As Upvest enters the next stage of growth, we are looking for an exceptional Associate Product Manager for the Governance team. You will work directly with Christina Noskevich and Aleksandr Tsirkunov owning topics critical to Upvest’s product and business success.

Build the currency conversion engine to power our expansion in new markets

You will shape key infrastructure that powers Upvest’s expansion into new regions. By building a flexible currency conversion engine you will allow Upvest and our clients to operate across new currencies and markets. You will form the foundation for our geographic growth and product scalability.

Shape the new generation of reconciliation system that oversees millions of transactions

You will own and design the modern reconciliation engine that monitors and matches millions of transactions, showing all errors automatically. You will contribute to real-time financial oversight and build the trust in Upvest systems and operations which is the future of digital investments infrastructure.

Reimagine treasury for modern banking

You will build a next-generation treasury and liquidity management system that gives Upvest real-time control over cash flows, funding, and risk across multiple banks. You will build a smart system aggregating and moving millions of Euro in minutes challenging traditionally slow industry practices.

What you can expect from this role:

• Autonomy coupled with inspirational leadership: When we say empowered teams we mean it. In this role you will fully own product success with your team - with your manager and senior leadership ready to support you at all times.

• Product-centricity throughout the organisation: At Upvest we highly value the importance of product and our Product team’s work. No struggle for relevance that product people may encounter elsewhere.

• Product Engineering culture: Teams are working together guided by joint OKRs and a clear roadmap. Collaborate closely with your engineering counterparts to deliver client value in a decoupled and dynamic manner.

• An exceptional team: Upvest’s Product team is one of a kind when it comes to combining impactful work with a relaxed and fun atmosphere. We have established strong practices around feedback, team health and social events.

• Continuous learning: The complex yet fascinating field of investments, building an API product on a state-of-the-art tech stack, and working with the most relevant fintechs and financial institutions provide for an incredibly rewarding learning experience. It is a great opportunity if you aspire to grow professionally and

Role requirements

• You have up to 2 years experience working in Product Management roles - ideally with focus on Finance or Accounting. Experience in financial services/investing, B2B SaaS or FinTech is a big plus. If you don't have any experience in product management but are willing to intensively learn on the job - let’s talk anyway!

• You have a clear bias for impact and speed in product discovery and delivery.

• Be a sponge! We don’t need you to be a finance or trading industry expert. But you will need to be able to absorb knowledge on complicated topics quickly (e.g. subledger reconciliation, mutual fund trading flow) and combine with product management best practices.

• Experience with product manager’s toolkits - such as product discovery, ticketing and documentation software (e.g., Linear, Slite, Miro, Figma etc.)

• Experience with SQL and basic understanding of any programming language (Python, R) is a big plus.

Why Upvest?

• We're working on solving a hard problem: fixing the European securities financial infrastructure that empowers more people to be able to invest. You have the opportunity to contribute to this change.

• We invest in you. From access to a personal coach, development budget and plenty of opportunities to grow in your role.

• We take hiring seriously with a strong focus on keeping a high bar when interviewing (equally important is that we also hire decent people who are passionate about their craft and helping us achieve our shared mission).

• While we're not quite fully-remote, we are committed to being a flexible employer as we understand you don't have to be in the office to do your best work.

• We live in a culture of empowerment, trust (that we hire the best people and get out of their way) and openness (there's a greater advantage in sharing information than keeping it to ourselves).

Our values:

• Learn and grow. We aim high to shape our future. We give and request honest feedback knowing that we develop together. Progression over perfection.

• Team first. We make it easy for others. We value our differences and are open to others' opinions. We win and celebrate together! Team over egos.

• Own the outcome. Whether we win or we lose, we stand together. We are proactive and get the job done. Outcome over process.

• Tell the story. We always start with the why. We share knowledge to empower others. Transparency over complexity.

We’re based in Berlin but also hiring remotely for this role. We also have offices in Tallinn and London.