Head of Product, Global Money Movement

Job Description:

At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money— we're here to move our global customers forward.
We're looking for builders, reimaginers, and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology, trust, and transformation. If that's you and you're ready to do the most meaningful work of your career—we invite you to join over 2,800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

About the Role:

As Head of Product, Global Money Movement, you will lead the product vision, strategy, and execution for Remitly’s global money movement platform — spanning pay-in, pay-out, and the core infrastructure that enables every transaction across our ecosystem.

This role owns one of Remitly’s most critical platform areas, underpinning both existing products and future growth. You will lead a senior product organization responsible for evolving these capabilities at scale, ensuring they deliver reliability, transparency, and cost efficiency across regions and use cases.

You will operate as the primary product leader for money movement, working in close partnership with leaders across Engineering, Treasury, Compliance, Operations, and Regional teams. Your focus will be on setting clear product direction, aligning teams around priorities, and balancing near-term delivery with long-term platform evolution.

You Will:

• Define and own the product strategy and roadmap for Remitly’s global money movement platform, aligning priorities to customer needs, business outcomes, and long-term platform health.

• Lead multiple product teams responsible for pay-in, pay-out, and core money movement capabilities, supporting senior individual contributors and people managers.

• Partner closely with Engineering and Architecture leadership to guide platform design decisions, ensuring scalability, resilience, and regulatory compliance.

• Collaborate with Treasury, Compliance, Operations, and Finance to ensure product decisions support liquidity management, FX execution, settlement performance, and regulatory requirements.

• Translate complex technical, regulatory, and operational constraints into clear product priorities and execution plans.

• Establish and own platform-level success metrics related to reliability, cost efficiency, latency, and customer impact, driving continuous improvement.

• Develop product talent through coaching, feedback, and clear expectations, fostering strong product craft and technical fluency across the organization.

• Represent the money movement product area in cross-functional and senior leadership forums, contributing to broader company planning and decision-making.

• Continuously assess market trends and technologies, staying ahead of innovation in real-time payments, network modernization, and financial infrastructure to ensure Remitly remains a leader in global, customer-first money movement.

You Have:

• Extensive experience leading product management in payments, fintech, financial services, or large-scale platforms, including ownership of complex, high-throughput systems.

• A strong track record of setting product strategy and delivering outcomes across multiple teams and domains.

• Deep understanding of global payments ecosystems and money movement infrastructure, including card, bank, real-time, and local payment networks.

• Strong product judgment and technical fluency, with the ability to engage credibly with engineering leaders on architecture, trade-offs, and sequencing.

• Experience defining and owning platform-level metrics and driving sustained improvements in reliability, cost, and performance.

• Proven ability to lead and grow senior product talent, including managers and highly experienced individual contributors.

• Comfort operating in regulated environments and partnering closely with compliance and risk teams.

• A pragmatic, customer-focused mindset, able to balance innovation with operational excellence in complex systems.

Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is typically $200,000-$250,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.

Our Benefits:

• Flexible paid time off

• Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching

• Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave

• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

• Continuing education and travel benefits

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster. For corporate team members, we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week. This creates a consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs. Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their team's specific needs. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.