Job description

The Product Manager Connections & Data Store role owns Lean’s core platform responsible for connecting the company to banks and open banking partners and for storing, serving, and monitoring financial data at scale. The position sits within the Product team and operates at the intersection of engineering, banks, compliance, and clients to ensure connectivity is reliable, scalable, and trusted. The role is a technical product manager position with no UI ownership and no coding responsibilities, but requires deep systems understanding. The incumbent partners closely with Engineering, QA, Platform Operations, and external bank teams to deliver resilient and high-quality platform capabilities. The role supports Lean’s rapid growth as a multi-product open finance infrastructure company powering payments, data, and lending across MENA, processing billions of dollars in transactions and serving over 350 clients. Responsibilities include managing open banking bank connections across UAE and KSA markets, improving conversion, stability, performance, and monitoring across the connection funnel including redirects, consent creation, data freshness, and latency. The role drives measurable improvements in success rates, time-to-connect, error clarity, and reliability, owns bank relationships, executes stakeholder management with bank technology teams and compliance and legal stakeholders, leads policy coordination with central banks on strategic open banking issues, and ensures alignment across internal squads in a regulated and standards-based ecosystem.