Payments Product Leader — Hybrid & Impact-Driven

Erste Asset Management GmbH; Wien; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 51,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Erste Group Bank AG is seeking an experienced Product Owner for Payments Operations to lead strategic development of SEPA and Non-SEPA payment services for retail and corporate customers. You will steer major payment initiatives, create implementation roadmaps, and collaborate across management, IT, operations, sales, and compliance to deliver customer-centric solutions.

The role requires strong payments knowledge in a regulated environment and fluency in German and English, with hybrid work

Qualifications

• Several years of experience in product ownership within the payments industry or a comparable role within the financial sector.
• Strong understanding of payments in a regulated and technologically dynamic environment.
• Fluent in German and English.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for the strategic and functional development of SEPA and Non-SEPA payment services for retail and corporate customers.
• Steer major payments initiatives from market needs to viable concepts and implementation.
• Develop a coherent product and implementation roadmap balancing value, viability, feasibility, and regulatory requirements.
• Work cross-functionally with management, IT, operations, sales, compliance, legal and other stakeholders, translating requirements into decision-ready solutions.
• Prepare business concepts, business cases, and decision-making materials, challenge existing approaches, contribute new ideas for innovation.

Skills

Product ownership

Payments knowledge

Stakeholder management

Data analytics

SQL

Python

German language

English language

Tools

Databricks

Job description

Erste Group Bank AG is seeking an experienced Product Owner for Payments Operations to lead strategic development of SEPA and Non-SEPA payment services for retail and corporate customers. You will steer major payment initiatives, create implementation roadmaps, and collaborate across management, IT, operations, sales, and compliance to deliver customer-centric solutions.

The role requires strong payments knowledge in a regulated environment and fluency in German and English, with hybrid work