Alaan (YC23) is the smartest way to manage business spend for Middle Eastern businesses.

The Middle East is on the cusp of a payments revolution with a $3 trillion+ B2B payments market. Managing spending for businesses in the region is incredibly painful, with archaic and disjointed solutions. Alaan solves these pain points by providing an all-in-one spend management and corporate cards platform. Businesses use Alaan to control spending, save time, and automate business expenses.

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• Product Leadership: Lead a core team of engineers and designers to build exceptional products that serve thousands of businesses.
• Technical Execution: Own the product roadmap, priorities, and execution, focusing on the card payment and expense management product for the Middle East region.
• Market Launch: Understand all technical requirements for the product launch and guide the engineering team through the development process.
• Customer Focus: Leverage data and customer feedback to iterate and evolve product offerings, ensuring a fantastic user experience.
• Collaboration: Partner and collaborate across various internal teams to deliver financial products that streamline complex business processes.
• Strategic Vision: Contribute to the vision, strategy, and processes that enable the growth of the product management function at various stages of the company's development.

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• Former experience in a technical role e.g., software engineer, devops engineer, etc.
• Strong communication skills in English - written and verbal
• Former product management experience
• Ability to understand customer or regulatory requirements, solutionize and identify product implications, and create user stories
• Experience in evaluating product decisions and managing prioritization trade-offs.
• Proven ability to lead and influence small teams of engineers towards common objectives
• Proven ability to collaborate with and influence non-technical colleagues
• Proven ability to collaborate with and influence external partners (e.g., system integrators)
• Proficiency in data analysis and making data-driven product decisions.