Product Strategy Lead

Who We Are

NEXT Ventures is where ambition takes shape and momentum becomes movement. As a global platform revolutionising access to performance-based capital, we empower the world’s most driven individuals to rise. Through our flagship brand, FundedNext, we empower dreamers to become doers, and potential to turn into performance. With 500+ driven minds across five countries, we power a global rhythm — 220,000+ daily users from 170+ nations, each chasing greatness in their own way.

Your Role in Our Mission

As Product Strategy Lead, you are the connective tissue between vision and execution across FundedNext’s three product pillars: CFDs, Futures, and Core Platform. You will directly manage Group Leads and Core Platform squad PMs, ensuring their roadmaps cohere into a single, purposeful direction — and that the people building these products are growing as fast as the platform they ship. This is a senior leadership role for someone who leads through coaching, resolves conflict with clarity, and holds both strategic coherence and team health as non-negotiable.

How You'll Make an Impact

Strategy & Roadmap Coherence

• Translate the Head of Product’s vision into actionable product strategies for each pillar (CFDs, Futures, Core Platform) — ensuring every squad’s roadmap ladders up to company-level objectives

• Own overall product roadmap coherence across the three branches — identify when CFDs, Futures, and Core Platform are pulling in different directions and resolve conflicts before they compound

• Review and challenge squad OKRs to ensure they connect to company-level outcomes — push back when OKRs are too safe, misaligned, or unmeasurable

• Monitor product outcomes (conversion, retention, revenue, trader satisfaction) across all squads and surface systemic issues to the Head of Product

People Leadership & Team Development

• Directly manage the Group Lead for CFDs, Group Lead for Futures, and the four Core Platform squad PMs (Trader Success, Partnerships, Payments, Identity)

• Coach Group Leads on team topology decisions, cross-squad dependencies, and strategic prioritisation — empower through coaching, not control

• Define the hiring bar for all squad PMs — participate in interview loops, own the PM onboarding experience, and ensure new hires ramp to effectiveness quickly

• Build and scale a product organisation from small to mid-size, maintaining craft and culture through periods of rapid growth

Cross-Pillar Coordination & Delivery

• Serve as the escalation point for cross-pillar conflicts — when a Core Platform change impacts both CFD and Futures squads, this role makes the call or escalates to the Head of Product with a clear recommendation

• Establish product delivery rituals — quarterly planning, sprint reviews, cross-squad demos, and knowledge-sharing forums that create a cohesive product organisation

• Partner with the Lead of Product Operations to ensure delivery and quality are balanced — neither function overrides the other

What You Bring

• 8+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years in a people management role leading multiple PMs or product teams

• Proven experience building and scaling product organisations — ideally through a team expansion from small to mid-size (10–30+ product people)

• Strong track record of coaching and mentoring PMs at various seniority levels, from mid-level to senior and lead PMs

• Experience with squad-based or cross-functional team models (SVPG-inspired, Spotify model, or similar empowered team structures)

• Ability to own roadmap coherence across multiple product lines — aligning different teams’ priorities with company strategy without micromanaging execution

• Experience with OKR frameworks at both company and team level — setting, challenging, and reviewing objectives with rigour

• Excellent conflict resolution and escalation management skills — comfortable making calls in ambiguous, high-stakes situations

• Deep understanding of product strategy, discovery, and delivery practices — a strong product thinker first, people manager second

• Experience in fintech, trading, or financial services products preferred but not required — domain expertise is secondary to product leadership capability

• Comfort operating in a high-growth, rapidly scaling environment where processes are being established for the first time

• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA or equivalent advanced degree preferred
  

Your Journey After Applying

• 30-minute HR Session with the Talent Acquisition team

• 60-minute Session with the Direct Supervisor

• 60-minute Session with Chief Strategy Officer
  

Why Join NEXT

At NEXT Ventures, performance is more than numbers — it’s the pulse that drives innovation and impact. Join us to architect a world-class performance and rewards ecosystem that shapes how success is recognised across continents. Be part of the team that turns ambition into achievement and potential into performance.

Your next chapter in global leadership begins here.