🛠 Tech Stack

💼 About This Role

You'll build and lead the Lab function at Fundraise Up, a global fundraising platform, focusing on high-risk, high-upside product bets ahead of the roadmap. You'll own ideas end-to-end from hypothesis to explicit scale/pivot/kill decisions, ensuring learning velocity and decision quality. This player-coach role lets you personally drive 1-2 high-leverage bets while building a repeatable innovation operating system.

🎯 What You'll Do

• Own the Lab bet portfolio, setting entry/exit criteria and making scale/kill decisions
• Frame experiments around the single riskiest assumption with kill criteria before building
• Synthesize results into opinionated recommendations for scale, iterate, or kill
• Source and close lighthouse pilots with clear scope, metrics, and off-ramps

📋 Requirements

• 8-10+ years in Product with a proven 0→1 track record
• 3+ years managing PMs as a player-coach or group lead
• Fluency across validation tools: discovery, prototypes, engineered MVPs
• Hands-on AI prototyping experience with LLMs, APIs, or modern tooling

✨ Nice to Have

• Ex-founder with clear ship/scale/kill story and measurable outcomes
• Payments, fintech, e-commerce, or nonprofit domain experience
• EU market familiarity (PSD2/SCA, data/privacy norms) and additional languages

🎁 Benefits & Perks

• 🗓️ 31 days of paid time off
• 🏥 100% paid telemedicine plan
• 💰 Meaningful equity participation
• 📚 Professional education budget
• 🏋️ Gym or swimming pool membership

📨 Hiring Process

Estimated timeline: 2-4 weeks · AI estimate

1. 1Recruiter Screen· 30 min
2. 2Hiring Manager Interview· 1 hour
3. 3Technical / Problem-solving Interview· 1.5 hours

🚩 Heads Up

• Requires AI Technical Judgment with hands-on prototyping but no formal AI role
• Player-coach role may split focus between management and individual work
• Location constraint to Cyprus and core hours 9-18 CET may limit global candidates