The Sr. Technical Product Manager will manage ML-powered security products, oversee development stages, coordinate with teams, and enhance customer-facing APIs, ensuring product success and compliance.
Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK) is a global leader in digital & biometric identity authentication, fraud prevention, and mobile deposit solutions. Our verified identity platform and advanced image capture solutions are built on the latest advancements in biometric recognition, artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning, and trusted by over 7,500 organizations worldwide. We are headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Mexico, and the Netherlands. Visit us at www.miteksystems.com.
At Mitek, we believe that teams are more resilient, effective, and innovative when they benefit from a wide range of ideas, lived experiences, and perspectives. The strength of our organization is deeply rooted in the people who power it.
We know that a workforce reflecting the richness of our communities and customers helps us better serve their needs. These lived experiences influence our decisions, shape our products, services, and help us grow with intention. When it comes to talent, our goal is clear: to discover exceptional individuals and to ensure they discover us. We prioritize drive, skill, experience, and ambition in everything we do for our clients.
We are Virtual 1st! Whether you choose to work remotely from your home office or in-person from one of Mitek’s offices, our practices, processes and tools are designed to enable your success. At Mitek, the Future of Work is about flexibility and preference wherever and whenever we are working.
Mitek Systems is looking for a Sr. Technical Product Manager who possesses a passion for pushing technology to its limits, to join our cross-functional development delivery team.
You will work with our team of talented engineers and ML engineers to design, integrate, and enhance customer-facing APIs and backend systems ensuring best practices and patterns are applied. You'll be working directly on services and software that are used by some of the world's largest financial services and gig economy companies, and you'll be able to point directly to your impact on our global software.
As a member of the Mitek’ Barcelona team you will be working on products and solutions that will help to transform mobile banking and the identity authentication markets. Your role will be to evolve and improve software for our products and services.
While most of the team is located in Spain, we are open to candidates who currently live in Spain or the UK.
What You Will Do (Essential Responsibilities):
- Launch and manage ML-powered security or fraud detection products.
- Manage products across the lifecycle, including growth, maturity, decline, and end-of-life planning.
- Oversee the development stages coordinating with the team, external providers and other departments.
- Manage the backlog of designated Mitek products.
- Establish and monitor priorities based on stakeholders’ and customers’ needs.
- Lead technical projects on designated Mitek products.
- Evaluate product progress, performance and compliance and propose technical improvements or new needs.
- Problem and issue resolution.
- Create documentation and improve current processes.
What You Will Need (Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field (or commensurate experience)
- 5+ years as a Technical Product Manager, preferably within a SaaS environment.
- Deep understanding of multi-modal biometric authentication and threat vectors (spoofing, deepfakes, replays, overlays).
- Awareness of anti-spoofing benchmarks and evaluation methods (e.g., iBeta testing, NIST FRVT PAD).
- Experience in development life cycles, with preferred experience working in an Agile environment.
- Experience with Jira hygiene, roadmap visualization, and stakeholder reporting.
- Comfort with product analytics, experiment platforms, and SQL for self serve analysis.
- Familiarity with cloud and streaming stacks (AWS/GCP/Azure, Kafka/Kinesis, feature stores) and CI/CD concepts for models and services.
- Fluency in English and Spanish, both written and verbal.
Who You Are (Soft Skills & Attributes):
- Skilled in product management, with strong organization and facilitation skills.
- Familiar with deepfake detection, sythentic media generation, or adversarial testing frameworks.
- Technically hands-on and capable of digging deep into technical stories and problems, making decisions based on technical expertise.
- Self-starter who embraces change and values innovation.
- Possess an ability to work with ambiguous requirements, adapt, and learn.
- Excellent communicator who can speak with both technical and non-technical audiences such as external customers, stakeholders, and cross functional teams.
- Able to summarize complex issues simply and effectively.
- An analytical thinker capable of creative approaches to solving problems.
- Experienced in payments, fintech, or identity fraud.
We take pride in enabling career growth in an environment of innovation and teamwork. Our commitment to all Mitekians is to do meaningful work that matters. Our culture is defined by delivering our best to our customers by providing high value solutions and impactful outcomes, by continuously challenging convention, and by caring for each other through collaboration and celebrating our successes. We are committed to creating competitive, equitable compensation & benefits programs and career development opportunities.
Benefit offerings – may vary based on geographic location
Wellness: Universal, supplemental, and private healthcare plan choices based on country specifics
Financial future: retirement/pension plan contributions, MTK stock plan participation
Income protection: life event & disability coverage
Paid time off: generous annual leave, company holidays, volunteer time off
Learning: e-learning license, tuition reimbursement, hackathons
Home office setup allowance
Additional/optional benefits: pet insurance, identity theft protection, legal assistance
We sincerely appreciate your interest in Mitek. We know your time is valuable and look forward to the potential of speaking with you further!
Top Skills
Agile
Artificial Intelligence
AWS
Azure
Biometric Authentication
Computer Vision
GCP
JIRA
Kafka
Kinesis
Machine Learning
SaaS
SQL
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