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title: 'Senior Product Manager - LMS at Tamara'
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# Senior Product Manager - LMS at Tamara

- **Company:** Tamara
- **Location:** Dubai, United Arab Emirates
- **Posted:** 2026-11-02
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-02
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/tamara/jobs/4999809101

## Job description

## About us

Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the wider GCC region with a mission to help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth. The company serves millions of users in KSA, UAE and Kuwait, and partners with leading global and regional brands such as SHEIN, Jarir, noon, Amazon, IKEA, eXtra and Farfetch as well as small and medium businesses.

Tamara is Saudi’s first fintech unicorn and is backed by Sanabil Investments, SNB Capital, Checkout.com, amongst others, operating out of its headquarters in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia with other regional and global support offices.

## About the Role

We are seeking a highly driven and experienced Senior Product Manager to lead the development and evolution of our Loan Management System (LMS). This role requires a strategic thinker and hands-on builder who can set the product direction, drive discovery and solutioning, and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver a best-in-class lending platform.

The ideal candidate will have prior experience building core financial systems, with the ability to either architect a new LMS from the ground up or enhance and extend existing open-source platforms. This is a senior, independent role requiring strong ownership, structured thinking, and stakeholder management skills.

## Key Responsibilities

- Set Product Direction: Define and communicate the long-term vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Loan Management System.
- Product Discovery & Solutioning: Lead structured product discovery, evaluate multiple approaches (build, extend, or integrate), and ensure the right trade-offs are made to achieve business goals.
- System Development: Drive the end-to-end creation of an LMS from scratch or modularize/enhance existing open-source platforms.
- Cross-functional Leadership: Independently collaborate with engineering, operations, credit risk, compliance, Finance and cross-vertical business teams to align requirements and deliver value.
- Execution & Delivery: Translate product strategy into clear requirements, prioritize ruthlessly, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality solutions.
- Scalability & Compliance: Ensure the LMS is built with scalability, reliability, and regulatory compliance in mind.
- Stakeholder Management: Manage expectations at senior leadership level, ensuring alignment on priorities, trade-offs, and timelines.

## Requirements

- 7–10 years of Product Management experience, with at least 4+ years in fintech, lending, or financial systems.
- Strong background in Loan Management Systems, Core Banking Platforms, or Lending Infrastructure.
- Proven ability to build complex financial platforms either from scratch or by extending open-source solutions.
- Excellent problem-solving, discovery, and structured thinking skills.
- Strong cross-functional leadership and communication abilities.
- Experience working in early-stage, fast-paced environments with high ownership.
- Familiarity with loan lifecycle management (disbursement, repayments, rescheduling, collections, settlements).

## About Tamara

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Tamara is the leading fintech platform in Saudi Arabia and the GCC region, offering Sharia-compliant buy now, pay later (BNPL) and payment solutions through a customer-centric financial super-app.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series? – Unicorn stage, backed by top investors)
- **Headquarters**: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (King Abdullah Branch Road, King Salman District)
- **Founded**: 2020
- **Founders**: Not publicly available (company was founded in 2020 by a team; individual founder names not disclosed in provided sources)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry/industries**: Fintech (BNPL, payments, consumer finance)
- **Target customers**: B2C (consumers) and B2B (merchants, from SMBs to global brands)
- **Mission or purpose statement**: “To help people make their dreams come true by building the most customer-centric financial super-app on earth” (from Greenhouse careers page) / “Empower people in their daily lives and revolutionize how they shop, pay, and bank” (from docs.tamara.co)

## Products & Services
For each major offering:
- **Tamara Bundle**: Includes Pay in Full and Split in 2/3/4 payment products – flexible, transparent, no hidden fees or interest.
- **Split in Installments**: Allows customers to split purchase amounts into multiple installments (varies by retail category and ticket size).
- **Pay in Full**: Customers pay the total order value upfront via Tamara, with no added fees or interest.
- **Online & In-store Solutions**: Tamara’s payment methods work both for e-commerce and physical retail.
- **Merchant Services**: Boost conversion and AOV, reduce fraud/credit risk, receive upfront payment while customers pay over time, and manage transactions/returns via a dashboard.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: $2.107 billion (as of latest funding round – CB Insights lists valuation at $2.107B, making Tamara Saudi Arabia’s first fintech unicorn)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding raised = $2.107 billion (includes equity and lines of credit; latest round was a Line of Credit - II of $1.4B about 9 months ago)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Sanabil Investments (wholly owned by PIF), SNB Capital, Checkout.com, Goldman Sachs, Citi Alternative Investments, Apollo Global Management, W2 Investments, Shorooq Partners (22+ investors total). Key merchant partners: SHEIN, Jarir, noon, IKEA, Amazon.
- **Growth Signals**: Serves millions of users across Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Bahrain; expanding globally with offices in Riyadh, Dubai, Cairo, Vietnam, India, Germany, and remote; strong headcount growth visible in open roles across engineering, data, risk, product, and care.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-mover & unicorn status** in Saudi Arabia’s fintech space.
- **100% Sharia-compliant** certification by Shariyah Review Bureau – a key differentiator in the region.
- **Strong backing** from PIF-linked investors and global financial institutions.
- **Deep merchant integrations** with top regional and global brands (SHEIN, IKEA, Amazon, etc.).
- **Customer-centric super-app vision** combining payments, shopping, and banking in one platform.

## Strategic Focus
- Build the most comprehensive financial super-app in the GCC, expanding product offerings beyond BNPL (e.g., banking, credit).
- Scale across the region (already in Saudi, UAE, Bahrain) and enter new markets.
- Invest in data, AI, and engineering talent to enhance risk management, personalization, and customer experience.
- Maintain Sharia compliance while innovating payment flexibility.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture highlights**: “Customer Obsessed”, “Ownership”, “Resilience”, “Curiosity”, “One Team, One Mission” – strong emphasis on trust, simplicity, and being “everywhere people need us.”
- **Work policy**: Hybrid/remote options available – offices in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Egypt, Vietnam, India, Germany, plus fully remote roles (per Greenhouse careers page).
- **Notable perks/engineering culture**: “We hire for human qualities, not just skills”; focus on continuous learning, data-informed decision-making, and building scalable systems; global team with diverse backgrounds; roles in engineering (backend, Flutter, QA), data science, risk, product design, and more.
- **Growth opportunity**: As a fast-growing unicorn, employees can have high impact and career acceleration.

## Sources
1. [Greenhouse – Jobs at Tamara](https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/tamara)
2. [Tamara – Life at Tamara](https://tamara.co/en-kw/life-at-tamara)
3. [CB Insights – Tamara Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/tamara)
4. [Tamara Docs – Introduction to Tamara](https://docs.tamara.co/docs/introduction-to-tamara)
5. [Tamara Careers Page](https://tamara.co/en-sa/careers)

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