Tamara
Senior Product Manager
- Permanent
- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Experience 5 - 10 yrs
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Job expiry date: 07/06/2025
Job overview
Date posted
23/04/2025
Location
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Experience
5 - 10 yrs
Seniority
Senior Manager
Qualification
Bachelors degree
Expiration date
07/06/2025
Job description
Tamara is seeking a Senior Product Manager for its Payments team to lead the design, development, and optimization of scalable and secure payment platforms. This role focuses on enhancing Tamara's ecosystem by integrating and orchestrating payment systems, driving performance metrics such as success rate and cost efficiency, and ensuring compliance with PCI DSS standards. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with payment acceptance and orchestration, and a deep understanding of regional payment schemes in KSA and UAE. This position plays a pivotal role in driving product innovation and excellence, collaborating across engineering, risk, infra, and compliance teams to deliver reliable payment infrastructure for millions of users.
Required skills
Key responsibilities
- Own and scale Tamaraās payment integration with PTSPs and orchestration layer through platforms, ensuring routing flexibility, downtime resiliency, and integration scalability
- Manage PCI DSS-compliant payment journeys, including Apple Pay and card processing flows, and collaborate with Security and Infra teams for ongoing compliance
- Lead third-party PTSP and payment gateway and processor integrations (e.g., Checkout.com, Amazon Payment Services, MPGS, CYBS) and ensure seamless switching and optimization across providers
- Optimize payment performance metrics, including success rate, cost, and availability by driving initiatives such as 3DS testing, MCC routing, and retry logic improvements
- Develop and execute product strategies aligned with Tamaraās business goalsāensuring scalability, cost-efficiency, and reliability across all payment systems
- Partner closely with Risk, FinOps, Card, Engineering, and other operational teams
- Drive experimentation and continuous improvement through data-driven decision-making and structured A/B testing
Experience & skills
- 5+ years of product management experience, with at least 2 years in payments, fintech, or platform infrastructure
- Familiarity and experience with local payment schemes and regulations in KSA and UAE
- Proven experience managing complex payment integrations, orchestration platforms, and PCI-compliant systems
- Strong understanding of payment acceptance lifecycle, including authorization, settlement, retries, and reconciliation
- Demonstrated executional excellence with a track record of delivering mission-critical systems and improvements
- Excellent collaboration skills across technical, business, and compliance stakeholders
- Deep product thinking with the ability to simplify complex systems into intuitive, scalable solutions
- Data-driven and detail-oriented, with experience conducting experiments, metric analysis, and product iteration
- A natural leader who thrives in ambiguity, brings clarity to chaos, and rallies cross-functional teams around shared goals
