Head of Product Management- Credit – Kuda Bank

Role Overview

• The Head of Product, Credit will lead Kuda’s Credit tribe, driving the strategy, execution, and continuous improvement of all lending-related products and initiatives.
• This role focuses on building reliable, scalable, and compliant credit solutions that deliver measurable business impact and exceptional customer experiences.
• You’ll own the tribe’s roadmap, delivery, and performance, ensuring decisions are data-driven and aligned with Kuda’s broader strategic and financial goals.
• You’ll also play a key role in building and developing a strong product team, fostering collaboration and accountability across stakeholders.

Responsibilities
Delivery & Execution:

• Lead tribe planning and QBRs, ensuring alignment, clarity, and dependency management.
• Champion thin-slice, iterative delivery focused on measurable outcomes.
• Provide consistent visibility to leadership through metrics, progress updates, and proactive risk management.

Data & Experimentation:

• Promote a culture of data-driven decision-making, establishing strong experimentation and measurement practices.
• Ensure squads have the insights, analytics, and tools needed for effective prioritisation.

Product Quality, Risk & Compliance:

• Ensure all products meet regulatory, compliance, and security requirements.
• Embed standards for reliability, performance, accessibility, and localisation into delivery practices.

People Leadership & Organisation Building:

• Hire, coach, and develop Product Managers across multiple levels.
• Foster a culture of clarity, focus, and ownership of outcomes.
• Define and uphold high standards for product discovery, delivery, and communication craft.

Day-to-Day Collaboration:

• With BLO: Align product strategy with business objectives and financial targets.
• With DM/TLs: Manage capacity, technical debt, and sustainable delivery practices.
• With Other Tribe Leads: Coordinate dependencies and shared initiatives.
• With Compliance, Legal, Marketing, and CX: Ensure alignment across customer, regulatory, and commercial goals.

Requirements

• 5+ years of Product Management experience, including 2+ years leading teams or product portfolios.
• Proven track record of delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Strong fluency in experimentation, analytics, and data-driven prioritisation.
• Excellent stakeholder management and leadership skills.
• Experience mentoring and scaling Product Managers with a player-coach mindset.

Nice to Have:

• Background in financial services, payments, lending, or infrastructure.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks and regulatory environments.
• Experience working with growth or data platforms.

Benefits
At Kuda, our people are the heart of our business, so we prioritize your welfare. We offer a wide range of competitive benefits in areas including but not limited to:

• A great and upbeat work environment populated by a multinational team
• Pension
• Career development & growth
• Competitive annual leave plus bank holidays
• Competitive paid time off (Parental, Moving day, Birthday, Study leave etc)
• Group life insurance
• Medical insurance
• Well-fare package (Wedding, Compassionate and etc)
• Perkbox
• Goalr – employee wellness app
• Award winning L&D training
• We are advocates of work-life balance, working in a hybrid in office schedule.