Business Development Leader, Germany & CEE - Digital Payment Services

IDEMIA; Flintbek; On-site; EUR 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

IDEMIA is seeking a Business Development Leader for Digital Payments in Germany and CEE to drive growth, market positioning, and ecosystem partnerships across digital payments for banks, wallets, and schemes. You will define go-to-market strategies and lead revenue expansion in a fast-changing landscape.

In this senior role, you will build partnerships, articulate value propositions across security, tokenization, and identity services embedded in wallets, and collaborate with product teams to

Qualifications

• Strong understanding of payments ecosystems including card issuing, tokenization, and networks.
• Experience with digital wallets and digital identity in regulated environments is advantageous.
• Bachelor’s degree required; MBA preferred for senior leadership track.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute go-to-market strategies for digital payments in Germany & CEE.
• Build and manage strategic partnerships with issuer processors, networks, fintechs, wallets, and regulatory bodies.
• Shape market strategy and thought leadership with a focus on awards, events, and ecosystem initiatives.

Skills

Payments ecosystems

Digital wallets

Digital identity technologies

Strategic mindset

Stakeholder management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, or related field

MBA preferred

Job description

Business Development Leader, Germany & CEE - Digital Payment Services

Since our founding, IDEMIA has been on a mission to unlock the world and make it safer through our cutting-edge identity technologies. Our technology leadership makes us the partner of choice for hundreds of governments and thousands of enterprises in over 180 countries, including some of the biggest and most influential brands in the world. In applying our unique expertise in biometrics and cryptography, we enable our clients to unlock simpler and safer ways to pay, connect, access, identify, travel and protect public places – at scale and in total security.

Our teams work from 5 continents and speak 100+ different languages. We strongly believe that our diversity is a key driver of innovation and performance.

Purpose

The Business Development Leader for Digital Payments is responsible for driving growth, market positioning, and ecosystem partnerships across digital payments for banks, domestic schemes, wallets, etc. The role defines and executes go-to-market strategies that increasingly connect payments, digital identity, and trusted credentials within wallets, supporting seamless, secure, and compliant digital transactions, via tokenization and digital credential issuance.

This role reflects the industry shift whereby digital wallets and account-to-account / RTP evolve from pure payment instruments into trusted interfaces for identity, authentication, and access, enabling frictionless customer journeys across commerce and digital services.

Location: Berlin / Frankfurt

Key Missions

Digital Payments Business Development

• Define and execute the go-to-market strategy, aligned with business growth objectives and the digital identity roadmap with $10M+ sales target per year
• Drive revenue growth across digital card issuing, tokenization, wallet provisioning, and identity-enabled payment experiences (authentication, Strong Customer Authentication, digital identity) at 35%+ per year
• Articulating an end-to-end value proposition spanning payment security, tokenization, authentication, and digital identity services embedded in wallets that would resonate with specific client segments and needs – banks, digital wallets, payment schemes, etc.

Strategic Partnerships & Ecosystem Development

• Build and manage strategic partnerships with issuer processors, payment networks, fintechs, mobile wallet providers, and digital identity ecosystem players, es well as government and regulatory initiatives e.g. for domestic schemes or CBDCs
• Ensure full value realization for the clients from the whole suite of solutions provided by IST and execute on value-based commercial agreement.
• Position the organization as a trusted enabler of next-generation digital wallets, card management systems, and scheme evolution, acting as a bridge between payments, identity, and highest-grade security.

Market Strategy & Thought Leadership

• Drive market intelligence and competitive analysis across based on the payment trends and competitive dynamics in the region.
• Increase market visibility and credibility through customer engagements, industry events, and ecosystem initiatives.
• Collaborate with Product Management to shape roadmaps, integrating payments and reflecting trends such as agentic commerce, stablecoins, scheme interoperability, reusable identity, FIDO authentication, and wallet-based access to services.

Profile & Other Information

• Strong understanding of payments ecosystems, including card issuing, tokenization, issuer processors, and payment networks.
• Proven experience with digital wallets and/or payment schemes (card, A2A), including mobile wallets, credential storage, and user authentication.
• Solid knowledge of digital identity technologies, including identity verification, biometrics, cryptography, and regulatory identity requirements is preferred.
• Ability to deliver value via providing customers with platform and ecosystem solutions across complex, multi‑stakeholder environments.
• Strategic mindset combined with hands‑on execution in global, matrixed organizations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Engineering, or related field; MBA preferred.
• Typically 10+ years of experience in business development, strategy, or partnerships within payments, fintech, digital identity, or security domains.
• Experience working in regulated environments (e.g. SCA, Tokenization, Issuer Processing, KYC, AML, digital identity frameworks) is a strong advantage.

By choosing to work at IDEMIA, you will join a unique tech company, offering a wide range of growth opportunities. You will contribute to a safer world, collaborating with an international and global community. We value the diversity of our teams and welcome people from all walks of life, regardless of how they look, where they come from, who they love, or what they think.

We deliver cutting edge, future proof innovation that reach the highest technological standards and we’re transforming, fast, to stay a leader in a world that’s changing fast, too.

At IDEMIA, people can develop their expertise and feel a sense of ownership and empowerment, in a global environment, as part of a company with the ambition and the ability to change the world.

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