Clara is the leading platform in Latin America for companies to execute and manage every payment operation. More than 50,000 leading and fast-growing businesses run on our corporate cards, bill pay, financing and B2B payments, and in 2025 the Financial Times named Clara the region’s fastest-growing company. We’re passionate about helping every company we work with become more effective—and, through that, raising the region’s competitiveness. We’re ~400 people, backed by Notable Capital, Coatue, Kaszek, monashees, DST Global, ICONIQ, General Catalyst and Goldman Sachs, among others.
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
Where we work
This is a hybrid role: you'll split your time between the office, customers and home. We don't set a minimum number of office days for most roles — you'll spend time in the office naturally, and most days during your ramp-up or when your leader asks.
Why Clara
- A high talent-density team driven to make an impact in Latin America — low ego, high ownership.
- Competitive salary and stock options (ESOP) from day one.
- An annual learning budget and accelerated development paths.
- English is our working language, with Spanish and Portuguese every day.
How we work
- Clarity — Open and direct communication: we say what we mean and give context where it matters.
- Simplicity — If it can be simpler, it should be.
- Ownership — We own everything we do, end to end. When something needs to happen, we don't wait.
- Pride — We hold ourselves to a high standard, and it shows in what we deliver.
- ABC (Always Be Changing) — We adapt fast, embrace change, and keep learning.
- Inclusivity — Diverse ideas, stories and perspectives build a better Clara.
If you meet the must-haves, apply — the nice-to-haves are a bonus, not a requirement.