Ai Group Product Manager

Build the future of payments with AI, Pix & Open Finance

• Type: Full-Time
• Language: English
• Location: São Paulo (Hybrid)
• Reports to: CPO
  

The Company

Nova is building a new generation payment network (i.E. reinventing Visa/Mastercard) using AI on top of Pix and Open Finance.

Its first product is a B2C digital wallet that functions as an infrastructure bridge between traditional credit cards and Pix, allowing consumers to use their existing credit card limits anywhere — even to pay Pix and Boletos in installments.

The company was founded by an elite team of fintech veterans and has had top-tier venture capital investors (Monashees, Canary, Canaan and Propel) since its inception.

We recently raised a large Series A and are now assembling a small team of exceptional, experienced professionals to build, launch and grow its next generation of products.

The Role

We are looking for an exceptional Group Product Manager to help define, build and scale Nova's next generation of products. You will own a group of product areas end-to-end, working closely with the founders, engineering, design and data to turn Nova's vision — reinventing the payment network on top of Pix and Open Finance — into products that ship and move the business. You'll be responsible for identifying opportunities, defining strategy, prioritizing ruthlessly, driving execution, growing a small team of product managers, and delivering measurable outcomes.

Key responsibilities include:

• Own strategy & roadmap for a group of product areas (e.G. the digital wallet, Pix & Boleto on credit, the installments engine, or new 0→1 bets), translating company vision into concrete, sequenced product bets across the group.
• Run product discovery — talk to users, dig into data, and map the competitive and regulatory landscape (Pix, Open Finance, card rails) to surface the opportunities worth pursuing.
• Prioritize and make tradeoffs across the group with clear reasoning, saying no to good ideas to protect focus on the few that matter most.
• Drive execution alongside engineering and design: write crisp specs, break work down, unblock the team and ship fast without breaking trust or compliance.
• Lead and grow PMs — set direction for a small group of product managers, raise the bar on craft, and coach the team as the product org scales.
• Define and own the metrics that matter — activation, retention, TPV, take rate, unit economics — and be accountable for the business outcomes of the group, not just the launches.
• Partner cross-functionally with risk & fraud, operations, growth and finance to launch products that are safe, compliant and economically sound in a highly regulated payments environment.
• Ship 0→1 and scale — take products from a blank page to launch, then iterate them into scaled, reliable parts of the network.
• Use AI daily across the product workflow — research, data analysis, prototyping and specing — to move faster and with higher leverage.

The Qualifications

Required

• +6 years of full-time product management experience, including experience owning multiple products or a product area
• Experience mentoring, coaching or managing product managers
• A track record of owning products end-to-end and delivering measurable business outcomes
• Experience at high-performing fintechs, financial services companies and/or startups
• Bachelor's (or equivalent) degree in Engineering, Business and Economics or related fields
• Daily usage of AI for product work (research, data analysis, specing and/or prototyping, etc.)
• Analytical & organized mind: structured thought, comfortable with numbers, detail oriented

Preferred

• Experience launching products (0 → 1)
• Experience building and scaling a product team
• Graduated from top schools and/or with top grades
• Participated and/or won in competitions, received work-related awards
• Active leader in the community, has published articles, given lectures, etc.
• Other demonstrable proofs of ambition, intelligence and/or resilience

The Targe Companies

Candidates with at least 2 years of full-time experience in the companies below will be prioritized:

• Strong Local Fintechs: Acquirers: Cloudwalk, Stone, PagBank, SumUp, Hash, Ebanx, D-Local
• Card Processors: Pismo, Stark, Pomelo, QI Tech, Celcoin, Matera, Dock, Fitbank
• Card Issuers: Nubank, Cora, Clara, PicPay, RecargaPay
• Other: Belvo, Klavi, Iniciador, Magie, Jota, Barte, Pagaleve, Ume, Creditas
• Strong Global Fintechs: Stripe, Plaid, Melio, Bilt, Brex, Wise, Affirm, Klarna, AfterPay, Marqeta, Chime
• Strong Financial Services: XP, Willbank, Inter, C6, Mercado Pago, Avenue, Itaú
• Strong Local Start-Ups: Wildlife, QuintoAndar, Loggi, JusBrasil, iFood, Loft, Olist
• Big Tech: Alphabet (Google), Amazon, Apple, Meta, Microsoft
• Other Tech: Netflix, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Spotify, Snap, X (Twitter), Pinterest
• Strong Fraud Prevention Start-Ups: Sardine, Signify, Riskified, Feedzai, Unico, Idwall, ClearSale

The Selection Process

Materials about Nova, including a pitch deck and pitch videos, will be made available through the process.

• Screening Call: 5min call with HR for alignment on requirements and qualifications
• Introduction Interview: 30min call with Hiring Manager for a quick review of past experiences
• Deep Dive Interview: 60min call with Hiring Manager to deep dive on past experiences and profile
• Bar Raiser Interview: 45min call with another Leader to validate assessment with a 2nd opinion
• Cultural Fit Interview: 45min call with CEO to evaluate culture fit and answer questions about Nova

The Offer Package

• Model: PJ
• Compensation: R$30–40K
• Stock Option: aggressive stock option grants
• Other Benefits: premium health insurance, flexible hours, paid vacations and Wellhub

If you're excited about building the rails of the next generation payment network alongside a small team of high-caliber, highly motivated professionals, we'd love to hear from you.