Product Manager - Cards

Shine; Paris; Hybride; EUR 70 000 - 90 000; Plein temps

Résumé du poste

A leading fintech firm is seeking a Senior Product Manager to oversee the design and launch of a new card program. This role involves establishing a product team, driving product discovery, and ensuring successful integration with banking systems. Candidates should have 3-5 years in product management, preferably in banking or fintech, and strong analytical skills. The position offers the opportunity to contribute to modern banking solutions for businesses throughout Europe.

Prestations

Influence in product development

Dynamic work environment

Career growth opportunities

Qualifications

• 3–5 years in Product Management, preferably in banking/fintech.
• Expertise in Product Discovery, Delivery, and Data Analysis.
• Experience with cards, payments, or banking infrastructure is a plus.
• Comfortable in ambiguous environments.
• Strong system architecture understanding and tech interdependencies.
• Fluent in English; French, Danish, or German is a plus.

Responsabilités

• Establish the cards product team and set vision.
• Lead successful launch of the card programme.
• Identify customer needs and deliver solutions.
• Ensure robust integrations and stable system performance.
• Shape the strategy in the cards domain.

Connaissances

Product Management

Product Discovery

Data Analysis

Customer Understanding

System Architecture

Description du poste

Product Manager Banking

Location : Paris, Copenhagen, Berlin or Amsterdam

Shine exists to help freelancers and small business owners reclaim the joy of working for themselves.

Running a business shouldn't mean drowning in financial admin – it should be inspiring and rewarding. Our app brings banking, invoicing, accounting and admin together in one place, so entrepreneurs can focus on what matters most : growing their business and enjoying the freedom of working for themselves.

We're a multicultural team of over 400 people across France, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands. By bringing together leading European fintechs like Shine, Kontist and Tellow, we've built a single, intuitive platform designed for simplicity, speed and accuracy – backed by local, award-winning support.

Your hiring experience matters

Just as we respect our customers' time, we respect yours. Your experience with Shine should feel simple, transparent and genuinely supportive.

If this sounds like somewhere you want to grow, we'd love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

As Senior Product Manager you’ll play a key role in designing, launching, driving, and scaling our new card program. Reporting directly to VP of Banking Sebastian Akselsen, you’ll partner closely with an Engineering Manager and other stakeholders across the business, and help take the lead on building a strong and coherent cross‑functional team from scratch.

Your mission :

• Build this from the ground up: Establish the cards product team and help set the vision, processes, and culture.
• Lead successful launch of card programme: Lead the integration to our card processor and ensure we launch our own issued cards to our customers.
• Drive product discovery & delivery: Identify customer needs, define solutions, and deliver solutions with speed and impact.
• Own card operations: Ensure robust integrations with external card processor, manage incidents, and ensure stable system performance.
• Lead cross‑functional collaboration: Work and communicate with several stakeholders to ensure our card payments run smoothly and deliver real user value.
• Shape our cards strategy: Build deep expertise in the cards domain, stay on top of industry trends, and translate them into opportunities for us, by looking into data, building dashboards, etc.

Milestones you’ll drive :

• 3 months: The mission is to build a strong team and build the foundation within cards interacting with our core banking system, enabling us to issue our own cards across all our core markets in time.
• 6 months: you have succeeded in launching our own card programme in one of our core markets.
• 1–2 years: Our cards are issued across the markets.

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for someone ambitious, curious, and eager to deep dive into this area of the business. You thrive in fast‑paced environments, care deeply about stability and operations, and love connecting complex tech with real customer value.

Must-have skills & experience :

• 3–5 years in Product Management (banking / fintech is of course a strong plus).
• Proven expertise in Product Discovery, Delivery, and Data Analysis.
• Experience in cards, payments, or banking infrastructure is a plus.
• Comfortable navigating an ambiguous environment where not everything is given up front.
• Strong understanding of system architecture and product / tech interdependencies.
• Experience managing incidents / bugs and ensuring operational excellence.
• Fluent in English. French, Danish or German is a plus.

Soft skills we value :

• Customer understanding – always connecting product decisions to user impact.
• People skills – A strong collaborator and communicator across teams.
• Ownership & accountability – takes responsibility for driving the product also in critical moments.
• High tempo & curiosity – eager to learn and become an expert in building strong domain expertise for cards, experiment, and move fast.

Why Join Us?

We are on a mission of making banking effortless for businesses across Europe. We are looking for the best talent to help us getting there.

By joining us, you will be part of a product driven organisation with the possibility to provide high value and delightful products to our customers.

In this role you will experience :

• Impact : Cards are the foundation of modern banking — you’ll directly shape our ability to serve entrepreneurs across Europe.
• Ownership : Build a new product and team from scratch, with support from experienced leaders.
• Innovation : Work in a dynamic, ambitious environment with space to grow and try our ideas and approaches.
• Mission‑driven : Makes our mission to help entrepreneurs succeed by giving them better, smarter banking and administrative tools.

Hiring Process

Screening with Talent team - Initial talk : -)

Interview with Hiring Manager - Elaboration on experience, the company, mutual role expectations and alignment

Case study discussion - In the case study, we’ll deep dive into your skills in data analytics, and strategic approach, your knowledge and curiosity about banking and cards.

Personality assessment (PTP) + Final Interview - Who are you and how can we help you succeed in this role? + Anything important we mutually haven’t covered - now’s the time!

Offer!