Head of Product - Payments

Runa; London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Runa as the Head of Product - Payments, a pivotal role that will shape the future of digital payments. In this position, you will lead a high-performing product team, drive product innovation, and work closely with cross-functional teams to enhance Runa's global payment infrastructure. You will have the opportunity to directly influence the strategy for a pioneering financial platform that adapts to modern money movement needs.

Benefits

£1,000 annual L&D allowance

25 days holiday + public holidays

Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance

Enhanced parental leave

Opportunity to work from anywhere for 45 days

Qualifications

• Strong product management background in payments.
• Experience in managing teams of Product Managers and Designers.
• Hands-on in digital product development projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead product planning and development for the treasury group.
• Collaborate with Finance and Engineering teams.
• Establish product strategy and roadmap.

Skills

Product Management

Payments Expertise

Data Driven

Education

Experience in technology-led scale-up

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Head of Product - Payments

We're looking for a product leader with payments expertise.

Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail that enables the seamless, global money movement at scale. Legacy banking and payment infrastructure struggles to support the demands of today's low-volume, high-velocity payouts, leading to inefficiencies in global payouts. Businesses worldwide send over $20 trillion annually in rewards, remittances, and disbursements often incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction and subjecting recipients to lengthy delays. Runa transforms this landscape by providing a new digital payments infrastructure that empowers businesses to send digital money instantly and cost-free to anyone, anywhere. The Runa API empowers thousands of businesses to make payments to 5 billion+ consumers in 190+ countries instantly to cards, wallets, bank accounts and gift cards. Leading companies such as Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globetopper rely on Runa to facilitate instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers.

Head of Product - Payments

We're looking for a product leader with payments expertise.

Runa is pioneering a first-of-its-kind payment rail that enables the seamless, global money movement at scale. Legacy banking and payment infrastructure struggles to support the demands of today's low-volume, high-velocity payouts, leading to inefficiencies in global payouts. Businesses worldwide send over $20 trillion annually in rewards, remittances, and disbursements often incurring costs of up to 50% per transaction and subjecting recipients to lengthy delays. Runa transforms this landscape by providing a new digital payments infrastructure that empowers businesses to send digital money instantly and cost-free to anyone, anywhere. The Runa API empowers thousands of businesses to make payments to 5 billion+ consumers in 190+ countries instantly to cards, wallets, bank accounts and gift cards. Leading companies such as Sodexo, TopCashback, Perkbox, Sweatcoin, Coinbase, and Globetopper rely on Runa to facilitate instant, flexible global payouts to tens of millions of consumers.

About The Role

Our Treasury domain owns money, movement and storage - the beating heart of Runa's global payment and treasury network. We deliver a platform and tooling that connects Runa and our customers with the global financial ecosystem, and enables businesses to operate and grow their footprint globally. This includes our FX products; payout rails; and APIs for exposing core money management experiences to our engineers, developers and finance partners.

As Head of Product you'll be a key contributor in product planning, product discovery and product development processes for our treasury group, which manages everything related to payments. You will work in close collaboration with Finance and Engineering teams to build and scale the financial engine that powers the flow of money through our platform.

What Excites You

• The opportunity to help shape the future of digital payments, enabling funds to flow through cutting edge payment rails and delivering a delightful experience for our teams. You’ll directly contribute towards replacing legacy payment rails with a financial infrastructure that powers the next generation of payouts experiences
• Scaling our Payments Engine by working closely with CPTO, Heads of Engineering and Go-To-Market leaders to solve the organisations highest value problems within treasury through product innovation.
• Establishing and executing against the product strategy and roadmap, bringing together a clear-sighted view of customer need, cutting-edge technology and commercial success
• Managing and developing a high performing product management and design team of 4.
• Taking full ownership of sprint-planning and prioritisation of the treasury product roadmap to ensure we achieve our strategic objectives through maintaining a delivery focused mindset
• Display deep engagement with prospective and existing customers in order to deliver solutions for funding, credit, foreign exchange, payments, billing, and fraud management
  
  

What Excites Us

• You’ll demonstrate a strong product management background with experience in a lead or managerial capacity working for a high growth, technology led scale-up business focused on B2B or B2C payments.
• You’re an expert in payments and treasury and are passionate about sharing your knowledge in various forms.
• Experience managing Product Managers and Product Designers to deliver major digital product development projects from discovery through to delivery, whilst remaining hands-on in a player coach capacity.
• You're data driven, able to measure the impact and result through insights, metrics and data and communicate analysis fluently across the leadership level.
• Experience working across payments or fintech products and/or a strong awareness of the payments industry and associated trends
• The ability to formulate an innovative product vision and translate complex requirements to technical and non-technical teams, up to C-level
  
  

Benefits

• We have a hybrid structure with the requirement of 1-2 days a week at our London Office (Shoreditch High Street)
• £1,000 annual L&D allowance to invest in mastering your craft, including accredited studies. Plus 5 L&D Days per year
• 25 days holiday + public holidays
• Runa Reset Days - Runa closes on the first Friday of each quarter for a well-deserved, Reset Day
• Summer Hours - In the month of August, we log off at 3pm on Fridays.
• Work from anywhere for up to 45 calendar days a year
• Participation in the Employee Options pool giving you ownership in Runa
• Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance with Bupa
• Enhanced parental leave for all new parents, up to 16 weeks full pay
• We are currently working towards salary transparency however we are not there just yet so our talent team will discuss this during the initial call to ensure that the right expectations are given.
  
  

Want to learn more about life at Runa and our hiring process? Visit our Candidate Hub: https://runahq.notion.site/runa-candidate-hub

Head of Product - Payments

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Executive

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Product Management

• Industries

  Financial Services and Software Development

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