About Tala
Tala is a global technology company building the world’s most accessible financial services. With more than $350 million raised from visionary investors, we are serving millions of customers around the world who have been overlooked by traditional financial institutions – and our plan is to serve millions more, and have been named by the Fortune Impact 20 list, CNBC’s Disruptor 50, and Forbes’ Fintech 50 list for five years running. We are expanding across product offerings, countries and crypto and are looking for people who have an entrepreneurial spirit and are passionate about the mission.By creating a unique platform that enables lending and other financial services around the globe, people in emerging markets are able to start and expand small businesses, manage day-to-day needs, and pursue their financial goals with confidence.
Currently, more than 7 million people across Kenya, the Philippines, Mexico, and India have used Tala products. Due to our global team, we have a remote-first approach, and also have offices in Santa Monica, CA (HQ); Nairobi, Kenya; Mexico City, Mexico; Manila, the Philippines; and Bangalore, India. Most Talazens join us because they connect with our mission of enabling financial agency for underbanked people around the world. If you are energized by the impact you can make at Tala, we’d love to hear from you!At Tala, we see the world differently. We’re driven by a fundamental belief in people, and we work hard to prove their potential.
We take risks that others won’t, in order to put more power in our customers’ hands. Every day, we challenge the limits of a system that has left 3 billion people behind – committing to building a world where underserved people everywhere have financial access, choice, and control. We call this way of doing things Radical Trust. We think trust will be the currency that drives a better financial system – one that sees, understands and serves more of the world’s people.
What You'll Do
- Develop and execute on a global growth strategy across multiple focus areas, including performance marketing, channel management, strategic partnerships, and referrals
- Build and scale the core global growth infrastructure needed for Tala's markets to thrive, including capabilities for managing customer data for performance marketing and attribution, configurations unlocking market-specific referrals programs, and the backend to power a multi-platform customer experience
- Own the end-to-end product lifecycle, from ideation to launch, and iterate continuously based on data-driven insights as well as customer and market team feedback
- Leverage quantitative and qualitative insights to inform product strategy and optimization, ensuring continuous improvement and data-driven decision-making
What You'll Need
- 5+ years experience in Product Management, with a strong background in consumer mobile apps, finance, or related industries
- Proven ability to design and implement scalable, configurable capabilities that address key customer problem statements and deliver meaningful business results across a diverse set of markets
- Demonstrated success in balancing strategic vision and tactical implementation, with a proven track record of effective partnership with engineering teams
- Ability to create hypotheses, set up experiments, query data, and analyze product performance and success in order to derive actionable insights
- Capable consumer of modern analytics tools with strong data fluency
- Comfort working in a fast paced, dynamic environment with distributed teams
- Strong understanding of modern development practices and planning processes
- Experience of conducting vendor due diligence, integrating 3rd party API’s, and customizing implementation
Our vision is to build a new financial ecosystem where everyone can participate on equal footing and access the tools they need to be financially healthy. We strongly believe that inclusion fosters innovation and we’re proud to have a diverse global team that represents a multitude of backgrounds, cultures, and experience. We hire talented people regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.Apply for this job
