Senior Product Specialist

TANGGapp is looking for a senior product specialist who is excited about building new features and making data-driven decisions. Join our rapidly growing team and play a key part in building our product!

Why join us?

High-impact role: Shape our product roadmap and take ownership in spurring TANGGapp’s growth. This role entail both strategic thinking and on-the-ground work with engineers, designers, and marketing, and we need someone who’s thrilled about tackling a variety of work.

Open-minded, inclusive culture: We have a widely international team and come from many backgrounds and stages of life. We champion diversity and inclusion and welcome people of all identities!

Social mission: Our driving purpose is to improve the lives of migrant workers and increase financial inclusion, starting in the Philippines. We’re looking for someone who’s excited about our mission.

About TANGapp

‍TANGGapp is an international peer-to-peer mobile payment app and aims to be the international ‘Venmo’ across the seas for the 1.5 billion unbanked globally and migrant workers, starting with the Philippines. After more than 55x growth since launching remittances, the company is entering an exciting growth phase and is ready to add fuel to this rocket.

Rebecca Kersch, the CEO and founder of TANGGapp, started the company in 2020 because of her personal connection to the challenges that migrant workers and their unbanked Filipino relatives face. Since founding TANGGapp, Rebecca has received multiple awards and accolades, including being selected for the Forbes Asia’s 100 To Watch List 2023. In addition to being Harvard-founded and backed with Harvard grants, TANGGapp’s investors include leading VCs in both the US and the PH. The startup is well-funded to accelerate its exciting growth.

We’re a global and remote-first team of self-starters and independent thinkers that wants to change the way global payments work by first making it easy, fast, and convenient to send money to the Philippines. We have an open-minded and inclusive culture with a diverse international team who come from all sorts of backgrounds and stages of life. We champion diversity and inclusion. We are a meritocracy, where the best ideas win no matter where they come from. Our team is partly based in the US as well as in the Philippines and India.

Responsibilities

• Manage sprint planning and sprint backlog, including writing user stories and QA testing
• Work closely with Design and Engineering to build a smooth and intuitive user experience and add new features to TANGGapp
• Analyze data using SQL to identify product issues and help prioritize the product roadmap
• Conduct continuous discovery via interviews, surveys, usability testing, etc.
• Define and track metrics of success, and execute on plans to achieve these metrics
• Collaborate with Marketing and third-party partners when building new functionality
• Note: at a startup, the tasks and responsibilities can change based on TANGGapp’s evolving needs. We expect our team members to be flexible and go with the flow on what needs to get done

Preferred Qualifications

• 3-5 years experience in product management, working directly with engineers and designers on new product launches
• Preferred background in fintech and emerging markets
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills for working cross-functionally with other teams
• Comfortable with ambiguity and can independently make data-driven decisions
• Willingness to help get anything done for TANGGapp’s success, whether that’s helping the marketing team with an event or writing copy for a new product
• Enjoys the constant change and fast pace of an early stage startup

Other information

• Based in the Philippines, but a remote virtual working position
• Willing to meet with customers in-person for research
• Competitive salary and benefits
• Unlimited PTO
• Work hours must overlap with 9am-1pm EST

We’d love to have you apply even if you feel unsure about whether you meet every single requirement in this posting. If you're passionate about fintech and ready to take on an exciting challenge, we want to hear from you.