Financial Systems Product Owner

Contract: B2B

About the Role

Voyagu is a San Francisco-based travel management company that connects premium travelers with travel experts for better and easier trip planning, booking, and managing.

Being part of a growing billion-dollar travel industry, we already have millions in our revenue and a team of a hundred people with offices in San Francisco, Amsterdam, Warsaw, and Mexico City, and we keep expanding.

We are building the next generation of the financial core behind a travel operations platform.

This is not a traditional accounting software role.

This is not a consumer product management role.

The platform already supports

booking operations
customer payments
supplier costs
servicing workflows
trip management
operational CRM workflows
However, the financial model evolved organically over time inside a monolithic operational system and now requires a dedicated financial core with:
deterministic financial behavior
auditable history
reconciliation workflows
period close support
reliable profit calculation
source-of-truth ownership
We are looking for someone who can own this evolution operationally and conceptually.

What You Will Work On

You will help define and evolve

• financial lifecycle modeling
• revenue and cost recognition rules
• reconciliation workflows
• financial event models
• append-only history and auditability
• accounting-period close behavior
• profit calculation semantics
• operational vs financial source-of-truth boundaries
• The system already exists and is actively used in production.
• This is not a greenfield rewrite.
• Part of the financial core architecture is already implemented and currently being expanded into production-ready workflows.

Your role is to

• take ownership of the domain direction
• help drive V1 safely into production
• work closely with engineering and finance
• evolve the model further without breaking operational workflows
• become the long-term owner of this financial systems domain

What Makes This Role Different

This role sits between

• financial operations
• systems modeling
• platform evolution
• accounting logic
• engineering execution

You will work on problems like

• how profit should be recognized
• how mutable supplier costs affect closed periods
• how to reconcile operational reality with financial truth
• what should be immutable
• how adjustments should work
• how finance can trust system-generated numbers
• how to evolve legacy workflows safely

This role is heavily focused on

• correctness
• explainability
• reconciliation
• domain modeling
• operational realism
• —not just feature delivery.

What We Are Looking For

Strong candidates usually have experience with some combination of

• financial systems
• accounting platforms
• billing systems
• ERP workflows
• reconciliation systems
• marketplaces
• fintech operations
• revenue/cost modeling
• operational finance tooling

We are especially interested in people who understand

• liabilities vs revenue
• delayed/mutable financial truth
• period close workflows
• append-only financial history
• adjustments and corrections
• source-of-truth design
• operational vs accounting boundaries

You do NOT need

• CPA background
• formal accounting certification
• deep distributed systems expertise
• microservices architecture obsession

Important

This role is not about

• growth product management
• UI/UX optimization
• marketing funnels
• roadmap coordination only
• This is a systems ownership role centered around financial correctness and operational trust.

Team & Environment

Current constraints

• existing monolithic platform
• PostgreSQL + GraphQL backend
• low-to-medium operational volume
• heavy operational workflows
• partially manual finance reconciliation
• evolving financial core architecture already in progress

You will work closely with

VP of Engineering

CFO

• backend engineers implementing the platform
• operations stakeholders

Success in This Role

In the first months, success looks like

• understanding the current operational and financial model deeply
• safely driving Financial Core V1 toward production readiness
• helping finance trust system-generated numbers
• reducing spreadsheet-based reconciliation
• improving the explainability of the financial state
• establishing clear ownership and invariants around financial behavior
• helping evolve the platform toward a reliable long-term source of truth