Senior Product Manager — Balance
TLDR
Own and evolve the Balance squad to make dLocal's balance system the most reliable and intelligent merchant money engine in emerging markets, powering multi-currency balances and structured overdraft.
Balance architecture. Own the balance strategy end-to-end: define how merchant funds are tracked, held, and made available across currencies, countries, and settlement windows. This is foundational infrastructure, decisions here ripple through every product in the platform.
Overdraft product. Build and launch the overdraft product: design the pricing framework (daily negative balance fees, credit lines, availability charges), set guardrails in coordination with Treasury, Risk, and Revenue, and expose configuration to commercial teams via Fee Manager. Overdraft is already live informally, your job is to make it a real, scalable, monetizable product.
Multi-balance. Define and implement multi-balance capabilities: allow merchants to hold and operate independent balances per currency (e.g., USD + LCY), ensuring payouts, FX conversions, and withdrawals pull from the right bucket at the right moment, without manual accounting hacks.
Post-transactional flows. Own post-transactional flows including split payments: define how funds are allocated at the balance layer after settlement (BNPL flows, split models, PSP-to-merchant settlement). Coordinate with Platforms and Finance to ensure transactional balance accuracy matches real fund flows.
Reconciliation. Drive balance reconciliation and operational accuracy: work with Finance and Engineering to ensure the balance engine reconciles daily, surfaces discrepancies early, and reduces manual interventions.
Cross-functional ownership. Lead cross-functional squads, Engineering, Treasury, Finance, Risk, Revenue, and Compliance, to deliver. Bring structure to multi-team dependencies and keep things moving without formal authority.
Product specs & technical depth. Write tight specs and work directly with Engineering on architecture decisions. The balance layer is complex and tightly coupled, you need to understand the system well enough to make confident calls.
Measure what matters. Define success metrics, measure outcomes, and iterate. Ship fast, learn fast.
PM depth. 5+ years in product management, owning the full lifecycle, discovery through delivery and optimization.
Domain expertise. Fintech background: you've worked on payments infrastructure, ledger systems, settlement, treasury, or credit products. You know what a balance engine actually does.
Technical fluency. Technical fluency: you've worked hands-on with REST APIs, read system design docs, and can make architecture trade-offs without engineering holding your hand.
Autonomous by default. You set your own priorities, unblock dependencies, and push projects forward, especially in a complex, multi-team environment.
Bias for action. You move, decide, and ship. The balance system has real merchants waiting on real features.
Cross-functional ownership. You bring structure to messy, multi-team initiatives and keep them moving. Treasury, Risk, Finance, Engineering, Revenue, you coordinate all of them.
IC mindset. Comfortable and motivated as an IC today, with real leadership potential for tomorrow.
Work permit. EU citizen; This is a hard requirement. no exceptions.
Benefits
Flexible Work Hours
Flexibility: we have flexible schedules and we are driven by performance.
Referral bonus program
Referral bonus program: our internal talents are the best recruiters - refer someone ideal for a role and get rewarded.
dLocal offers a robust payment processing solution designed for global enterprises to navigate cross-border transactions in emerging markets. By facilitating local payments and payouts in 40 countries, we help major brands enhance conversion rates and streamline their payment operations.
- Founded
- Founded 2016
- Employees
- 500+ employees
- Industry
- Diversified Financial Services
- Total raised
- $360M raised