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Product Lead (Líder de Producto) - LATAM at Clara · Mexico…
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Job Description
Ready to accelerate your career?
Clara is the fastest-growing company in Latin America. We've built the leading solution for companies to make and manage all their payments. We already help over 20,000 large and growing businesses operate with agility and financial clarity through locally issued corporate cards, bill pay, financing, and a powerful B2B platform built for scale.
Clara is backed by some of the most successful investors in the world, including top regional VCs like monashees, Kaszek, and Canary, and leading global funds like Notable Capital, Coatue, DST Global Partners, ICONIQ Growth, General Catalyst, Citi Ventures, SV Angel, Citius, Endeavor Catalyst, and Goldman Sachs - in addition to dozens of angel investors and local family offices.
We’re building the financial infrastructure that powers high-performing organizations across the region. We invite you to join us if you want to be part of a fast-paced environment that will accelerate your career and support you to do some of the best work of your life alongside a passionate and committed team distributed across the Americas.
Who We Are
We build in small, autonomous squads. We default to action over process. We treat AI as core workflow, not a novelty. We care more about what you've shipped than where you studied. If you're the kind of person who prototypes before they present, ships before they ask permission, and earns trust by being close to the work, you'll fit here.
What is a Product Lead?
A Product Lead owns the product direction for a small, autonomous squad. You decide what to build, why it matters, and whether it worked. You're accountable for business outcomes, not just features shipped.
What makes this role different from a traditional Product Manager? You don't write specs and hand them off. You prototype ideas with AI tools before committing engineering time. You contribute code for straightforward changes (copy, config, feature flags, simple UI updates) so you can unblock yourself and move faster. You work in Git daily, read PRs, and understand what shipped without needing a status meeting.
The core job is still product judgment, discovery, and stakeholder alignment. But the technical bar is higher than a traditional PM role. You need to hold your own in architectural conversations, earn engineering's trust by being close to the work, and use AI coding tools as part of your daily workflow.
This isn't a PM who codes full-time. And it isn't an engineering lead with product responsibilities bolted on. It's what we believe the best product person looks like in the AI era: someone who can own outcomes and move fast without waiting for handoffs.
What We Expect
Experience
- 5+ years in product management, product engineering, product design, or a hybrid building role
- Track record of shipping products that moved business metrics, not just features that launched
- Experience working directly with engineers as peers
- You've built something in production yourself
Technical Fluency
- You can prototype a working concept using AI coding tools (Cursor, Claude Code, or similar)
- Comfortable with Git: cloning repos, creating branches, pushing commits, reading diffs
- You can read code well enough to follow what a PR does and ask good questions about it
- You understand system architecture at the level of "how do these services talk to each other" and "where does the data live"
Product Fundamentals
- Strong discovery skills: you know how to identify the right problem before solving it
- Data literate: comfortable with SQL, dashboards, and experiment design
- Clear written communicator: you can write a one-pager that drives alignment without a meeting
- Stakeholder management across engineering, design, sales, and leadership
Mindset
- High agency. You default to action over process.
- AI tools are core workflow for you, not a novelty
- Comfortable being the only non-engineer in the room and earning that room's trust
Nice to Have
- CS, engineering, or technical degree
- Can produce near-production-ready code for straightforward changes using AI tools, suitable for engineer review and merge
- Experience building AI-powered products
- Experience in fintech, enterprise, or domains requiring complex systems thinking
- Experience in high-growth startups
Why join Clara
At Clara, you’ll have the autonomy, speed, and support to make meaningful impact — not just on your team, but on how organizations are run across Latin America.
Who we are
- We’re the leading B2B fintech for spend management in Latin America.
- Certified as one of the world's fastest-growing companies, a Great Place to Work, and a LinkedIn Top Startup.
- Passionate about making Latin America more prosperous and competitive.
- Constantly innovating to build financial infrastructure that enables each of our customers to thrive.
- Product-led, high-talent-density culture — designed for builders who raise the bar.
- Proud of our open, inclusive, and values-driven environment.
What we believe in
- #Clarity. We say things clearly, directly, and proactively.
- #Simplicity. We reduce noise to focus on what really matters.
- #Ownership. We take responsibility and never wait to be told.
- #Pride. We build products and experiences we’re proud of.
- #Always Be Changing (ABC). We grow through feedback, risk-taking, and action.
- #Inclusivity. Every voice counts. Everyone contributes to our mission.
What we offer
- Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one
- Multicultural team with daily exposure to Portuguese, Spanish, and English (our corporate language)
- Annual learning budget and internal accelerated development paths
- High-ownership environment: we move fast, learn fast, and raise the bar — together
- Smart, ambitious teammates — low ego, high impact
- Flexible vacation and hybrid work model focused on results
If you’re ready for growth, ownership, and impact — apply now and help us redefine B2B finance in Latin America.
Clara’s Hybrid Policy
Claridians in a hybrid mode split their time between working from the office, talking to or visiting customers, or working from home. This hits a balance between bringing people together for in-person collaboration and learning from each other, while supporting flexibility about how to do this in a way that makes sense for each individual and team.
We don't enforce a minimum number of days for most roles, but you're expected to spend time at the office organically, and be at the office most days during your ramp-up or when required by your leader.