Senior Product Manager - Checkout Experience

Alma31; Paris; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Alma, a leader in buy now, pay later solutions, seeks a Senior Product Manager in Paris with a hybrid work model to own checkout experiences across online and in-store journeys.

You will drive account creation and identity verification flows, apply data insights and experimentation to reduce friction, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to prioritize the roadmap while balancing consumer, merchant, and regulatory needs.

Qualifications

• PM with checkout/e-commerce/payments experience.
• Able to use data to identify opportunities and measure success.
• Turn complex needs into simple product experiences.
• Strong ownership and cross-functional collaboration; AI tooling welcomed.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve Alma's checkout experience across e-commerce and in-store journeys.
• Own account creation and identity verification journeys, integrating KYC and CCD2 requirements.
• Test, learn and repeat using funnel analysis, customer insights and experimentation to measure impact.
• Prioritize the roadmap with cross-functional stakeholders balancing consumer, merchant, business, risk and compliance needs.

Skills

Product Management

Checkout Experience

E-commerce

Payments

Conversion Optimization

Data Analysis

Cross-functional Collaboration

AI Tools

Ownership

Problem Solving

Tools

Notion

Slack

Linear

Figma

Metabase

Looker

Job description

About Alma

At Alma, we believe sustainable commerce depends on fair, well-balanced trade. Because finance plays a pivotal role in business, our mission is to put it back in its rightful place - serving merchants and consumers. Our installment and deferred payment solutions help merchants boost sales by 20% or more, increase customer loyalty, and deliver a seamless shopping experience - without encouraging bad debt. As the buy now pay later leader in France and active in 10 European countries, we've empowered over +25,000 merchants and 10 million consumers. With 400+ Almakers and €100M+ ARR, Alma is scaling rapidly across Europe as a member of the Next40, and we're just getting started!

About the team

You will join the Checkout Experience squad within Alma's Consumer Tribe, reporting to Tetiana , Group Product Manager. The squad is composed of an Engineering Manager and several Software Engineers, and works on key parts of Alma's consumer checkout experience across online and in-store journeys.

As a Senior Product Manager, you will join as an individual contributor and take ownership of strategic product topics spanning checkout conversion, account creation and identity verification. You will work at the intersection of consumer experience, merchant needs, business performance and regulatory requirements.

This position is a permanent contract (CDI) based in Paris with a hybrid working model.

About the job

Make checkout simpler and more effective: Own and improve Alma's checkout experience across e-commerce and in-store journeys, reducing friction and supporting conversion.

Turn complexity into trusted experiences: Own account creation and identity verification journeys, integrating KYC and CCD2 requirements into clear and seamless customer flows.

Test, learn and repeat: Use funnel analysis, customer insights and experimentation to identify opportunities, measure impact and continuously improve the product.

Make it happen together: Work with cross-functional stakeholders to prioritize the roadmap and balance consumer, merchant, business, risk and compliance needs.

You will work with

• Slack for day-to-day cross-functional communication


• Notion for product documentation, briefs and roadmaps


• Linear for backlog and delivery tracking


• Figma for product design


• Metabase and Looker for data analytics

About you

To succeed in this job

• You have proven experience as a Product Manager working on checkout, e-commerce, payments or another high-volume consumer transaction experience.


• You understand conversion funnels and experimentation, and are comfortable using data to identify opportunities, define success metrics and prioritize initiatives.


• You can turn complex customer needs, business constraints and regulatory requirements into simple, intuitive product experiences.


• You demonstrate strong ownership, structured problem-solving and effective cross-functional collaboration, while using AI tools to improve your product work.

And it will be nice if you...

• Have experience with account creation, identity verification, authentication, KYC or fraud prevention.


• Have built products in regulated environments, ideally within payments, BNPL, lending, consumer finance or another financial services context.


• Have worked on in-store, POS or omnichannel experiences.


• Have experience with European markets or an interest in emerging purchase journeys, including agentic commerce and AI-assisted transactions.

Don't meet every single requirement? At Alma, we believe great hires come from diverse paths. We value potential, curiosity and the ability to grow as much as experience.

What's in it for you

• Drive measurable impact on Alma's checkout conversion across both e-comm