Head of Product Payment

Malt; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Sabbatical leave

Book program

Team events

Job summary

Malt is seeking a Head of Payment to lead and scale our global financial infrastructure. You will work at the intersection of Product, Tech, Legal and Finance to unlock international growth and optimize our payment model for a seamless experience for our Community & Clients.

This role demands a strategic, collaborative leader who drives complex payment systems as a core business lever. You will own the payment roadmap, manage multi-currency flows, and partner with treasury ops to protect

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive tech/product leadership in a platform or B2B marketplace, focused on fintech or global treasury.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the vision for Malt's payment architecture and third-party dependencies.
• Bridge Finance, Legal and Tech to enable scalable transactional experiences.
• Own benchmarking and explore payment methods, PSPs, and cross-border capabilities.
• Drive multi-currency, cross-border marketplace transactions and global billing integrations.

Skills

Fintech leadership

Payment infrastructure

PSPs

Data analytics

Tools

Looker

Job description

Discover our galaxy

Join the Future of Work ! Malt is Europe's leading freelance marketplace, connecting over 1,000,000 talented freelancers with 100,000+ companies. Founded in 2013, we're transforming how work gets done through our tech-powered, human-centered platform. What makes us different:

• A diverse team of 600 Malters across 6 European countries
• A culture that champions equality (50% of our Comex are women) and inclusive growth
• Backed by top investors including ISAI, Serena Capital, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs, and BPI
• A mission to give everyone the freedom to work differently

Ready to help shape the future of work? Your next chapter starts here!

Explore your future career

As Head of Payment, reporting directly to the Chief Product Officer, you will own and scale the financial infrastructure powering Malt at global level. Operating at the crossroad of Product, Tech, Legal and Finance, your mission is to unlock international growth while optimizing our unique payment model to offer a seamless experience to our Community & Clients. This is a sophisticated scaling challenge: managing complex B2B liquidity flows while ensuring the user experience remains effortless. We are looking for an ambitious, collaborative leader who views complex payment systems as a primary driver of strategic business growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the vision for Malt's payment architecture and 3rd parties dependencies. Introducing geographic scale and enabling commercial expansion to support the growth of new business lines.
• Act as the primary bridge combining Finance, Legal and Tech teams to build a great transactional experience for all sides of the marketplace, with a scalable operational model and the appropriate integration with Finance tools and processes.
• Own product benchmarking and exploration of payment methods, new PSPs assessment
• Drive the strategy and roadmap to facilitate seamless multi-currency, cross-border marketplace transactions while scaling enterprise billing integrations globally.
• Transform our cash advance model and factoring partner setups to limit transaction risk at the source.
• Collaborate with Treasury and Financing Operations to protect working capital while expanding our core freelance financing value proposition Serve as the functional referent for international payment compliance, Anti-Money Laundering (AML) standards, and localized marketplace regulations across all active regions.

About You

• Experience: 10+ years of progressive tech/product leadership directly within a platform or B2B marketplace environment, specializing in fintech, core payment infrastructures, or global treasury networks.
• Technical Expertise: Proven mastery of payment service providers (PSPs), international banking networks, cross-border escrow structures, factoring financial mechanics, and data analytics tools (e.g., "Looker"). Track record of exercising a built / buy / partner muscle for critical infrastructure.
• Business Acumen: Deep understanding of enterprise B2B sales cycles, procurement/P2P workflows, and marketplace unit economics, with the ability to translate cost optimizations into strategic product features.
• Leadership & Mindset: Strong cross-functional influencer—curious, intellectually agile, and an excellent communicator. You thrive in ambiguity, can translate complexity into clear product decisions, and bring conviction

Malt is the perfect space to thrive personally and professionally

• Onboarding: Before easing into your new role, you’ll spend your first week learning about our culture, products, services with other new joiners at our office in Paris
• Equity: Every Malter is entitled to stock options
• Malt sabbatical: Every three years, all Malters are entitled to a one month fully paid sabbatical leave
• Free books: If you’re interested in learning more about any topic relevant to Malt’s business, just tell us the books you’d like to read, and we’ll order them for you—without any questions asked or approval processes to follow
• Team building events organized every year

At Malt, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We recruit based on skills, experience, and potential, without any form of discrimination related to age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability. Our mission is to create a work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and safe to thrive.

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We believe people hire people. While we use AI to help our team manage the high volume of applications we receive, it never replaces our personal touch. Think of AI as our administrative assistant—it helps us stay organized, but all final decisions are made by our Talent Acquisition team members who look for the unique value you bring.