Group Product Manager, Payments & Fintech (Hybrid)

Womentech Network; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive health, dental andvision

Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a

On-going training and professional dev

Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer

Flexible work patterns and hybrid

Job summary

Sage is recruiting a Group Product Manager for Payments & Fintech to define how small businesses get paid, manage payments and access capital. You will set the product vision, drive delivery and lead a cross-functional team to build smarter financial experiences, starting in the UK and Ireland and expanding globally.

This hybrid role requires 3 days a week in the Newcastle office. You will own the payments and fintech roadmap across AR, AP and Access to Capital, grow adoption, and use customer

Qualifications

• Proven product leadership experience in payments, fintech or financial services, ideally across customer-facing products and platform/API capabilities.
• A strong commercial mindset, with experience linking product strategy to measurable business outcomes.
• The ability to set direction, prioritise decisively and turn strategy into products customers value.
• Experience influencing and aligning diverse, cross-functional teams without relying on formal authority.
• A customer-led, data-driven approach to discovery, experimentation and product optimisation.
• An understanding of the challenges of delivering financial products across different markets, regulations and payment ecosystems.
• Confidence using AI to improve product discovery, analysis and delivery, alongside sound judgement and clear communication.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategy: Define and deliver the payments and fintech roadmap across Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Access to Capital.
• Drive commercial impact: Own portfolio outcomes, growing payments adoption, revenue opportunities and customer retention.
• Create better experiences: Use customer insight, experimentation and AI-powered workflows to simplify financial tasks and help customers manage cash flow.
• Build for scale: Partner with global platform and engineering teams to develop reusable payment capabilities, APIs and experiences that work across markets.
• Lead through influence: Align Product, Engineering, Design, Commerce, Mobile, Marketing and external partners around a shared vision.
• Navigate complexity: Balance customer needs, commercial priorities, regulation and local market requirements while maintaining a coherent global platform.
• Embrace AI: Use AI tools to accelerate discovery, research and decision-making, with a focus on quality, evidence and responsible use.

Skills

Product leadership

Payments experience

Fintech

Cross-functional leadership

AI proficiency

Market expansion

Job description

Sage is recruiting a Group Product Manager for Payments & Fintech to define how small businesses get paid, manage payments and access capital. You will set the product vision, drive delivery and lead a cross-functional team to build smarter financial experiences, starting in the UK and Ireland and expanding globally.

This hybrid role requires 3 days a week in the Newcastle office. You will own the payments and fintech roadmap across AR, AP and Access to Capital, grow adoption, and use customer