
VP Product Platform
Masabi
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
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Lead
About the role
- Define and own the strategy for Masabi’s core platform domains, including ABT, EMV, mobile ticketing, the fare engine and our API and integration layer.
- Set clear priorities shaped by customer needs, market trends and competitive awareness.
- Ensure platform strategy directly supports enterprise deal success and delivery excellence.
- Own the roadmap across multiple product areas and major customer programmes.
- Balance long-term investment with the needs of large and complex deployments.
- Lead the full product lifecycle, from discovery and definition through delivery and iteration.
- Track success through adoption, commercial impact and customer outcomes, using data to guide improvement.
- Partner with Engineering to deliver the roadmap, scale and stabilise the platform.
- Build a strong understanding of Masabi’s markets and customer needs, using this insight to inform platform strategy and investment decisions.
- Lead and develop a team of product managers and product program leads.
Requirements
- Leadership experience in product at a highly senior level, owning complex platforms or multi-product portfolios.
- Background in at least one of the following: payments, transit or mobility, fintech, or integration-heavy B2B SaaS.
- Proven experience with enterprise or public sector customers, including RFPs, SLAs and complex delivery environments.
- Experience leading teams of around eight to ten people across multiple products or programmes.
- A track record of driving commercial impact, such as revenue growth, adoption or margin improvement.
- Strong technical understanding of APIs, integrations, payment flows and non-functional requirements.
- Comfortable balancing long-term product strategy with the needs of large, time-sensitive programmes.
- Commercially thoughtful, with an eye for product opportunities and portfolio performance.
- Strategic, with the ability to go deeper when needed to support clarity and good decision-making.
- Focused on outcomes and customer value, with a calm and grounded approach to ambiguity and pressure.
- Motivated by building, improving and leading in a scaling environment.
Benefits
- Driven by Purpose – We believe in journeys made simple. The work isn’t always easy, but the best things never are.
- Encouraged to Accelerate – Masabi is going places and our people are in the driving seat. Whether you’re taking the direct route or exploring new paths, we support your journey.
- Advancing with Empathy – We put people first and foster a culture of learning, not blame. No matter your cargo, we share the load.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
APIintegrationspayment flowsnon-functional requirementsproduct lifecycle managementdata analysisroadmap developmentcustomer outcomes trackingcommercial impact measurementportfolio performance
Soft skills
leadershipstrategic thinkingdecision-makingcustomer focuscalm under pressureteam developmentcommercial awarenessadaptabilityoutcome-orientedproblem-solving