Group Product Manager: Payment Optimization & AI

Checkout Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Checkout.com is seeking a Group Product Manager to lead Intelligent Acceptance, improving merchant profit by increasing acceptance and reducing costs. You will shape AI/ML-powered optimization across the payment lifecycle and lead multiple Product Managers in a hybrid, multi-office setup.

You will work with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics and Design to translate merchant goals into concrete roadmaps, with a bias for measurable value and scalable solutions across the payment lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in payment optimization, with knowledge of acquiring, authorization performance, routing and payment economics.
• Track record of setting strategy and delivering outcomes across multiple related products or teams.
• Proven success leading and developing Product Managers.
• Ability to bring clarity and structure to complex, ambiguous problem spaces.
• Strong quantitative judgment and data-driven decision making.
• Credibility with Engineering and Data Science teams on decisioning or optimization.
• Commercial sense to connect technical capabilities to merchant value and sustainable outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Set a multi-year vision for merchant payment optimization.
• Unite the portfolio around a shared strategy, roadmap and product principles.
• Balance acceptance, payment cost and fraud risk at payment and merchant level.
• Define how to measure merchant value across the portfolio.
• Build experimentation and causal measurement into product development.
• Own the portfolio's economics, including investment cases and pricing.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Finance, Product Marketing and Customer Success.
• Lead Product Managers across the optimization suite.
• Align teams around evidence-based priorities and trade-offs.
• Deliver measurable improvements in acceptance and costs with clear fraud guardrails.

Skills

Payment optimization

Strategy development

Leadership of PMs

Quantitative judgment

Experimentation & measurement

Commercial judgment

Stakeholder communication

Job description

Checkout.com is seeking a Group Product Manager to lead Intelligent Acceptance, improving merchant profit by increasing acceptance and reducing costs. You will shape AI/ML-powered optimization across the payment lifecycle and lead multiple Product Managers in a hybrid, multi-office setup.

You will work with Engineering, Data Science, Analytics and Design to translate merchant goals into concrete roadmaps, with a bias for measurable value and scalable solutions across the payment lifecycle.