Lead Product Manager

Runa LLC; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading financial technology firm in London is looking for a Lead Product Manager to drive the design and delivery of next-generation payout products. The ideal candidate has a strong background in payments and financial technology, and is skilled in leading cross-functional teams. This position involves defining strategic initiatives to enhance global payout capabilities in a hybrid work environment offering great benefits including L&D allowances, private health insurance, and flexible hours.

Benefits

Hybrid work structure

£1,000 annual L&D allowance

25 days holiday + public holidays

Private Medical + Dental Health Insurance

Enhanced parental leave

Qualifications

• Deep experience in payments, payout infrastructure or financial technology.
• Led complex product initiatives involving technical, regulatory, and financial considerations.
• Natural mentor and collaborator.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute multi-rail payout strategy.
• Lead design and delivery of next-generation payout products.
• Guide cross-functional teams through product delivery.

Skills

Experience in payments

Cross-functional collaboration

Strategic thinking

Data-driven decision making

Mentoring others

Job description

Lead Product Manager

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.

The Role

As a Lead Product Manager at Runa, you'll play a key role in shaping the future of our payments platform, leading the design and delivery of next-generation payout and funding products that expand our global capabilities. You'll guide cross-functional teams spanning Product, Engineering, Treasury, and Finance, driving scalable, compliant, and innovative solutions that define the next era of digital payouts.

This role blends deep strategic ownership with hands‑on delivery. You'll define and execute our multi‑rail payouts strategy, mentor other Product Managers, and lead initiatives that enable Runa to serve new markets and use cases. You'll thrive on solving complex, cross‑functional problems, building clarity where there's ambiguity, and turning bold ideas into real customer impact.

What Excites You

• Owning the end‑to‑end strategy and delivery for key payout products, from vision through execution and iteration.
• Designing solutions that enable instant, global, and cost‑efficient payouts across multiple rails and networks.
• Leading cross‑functional collaboration between Product, Treasury, Engineering, and Finance to deliver scalable, compliant infrastructure.
• Coaching and mentoring other PMs, helping elevate product excellence and strategic thinking across the team.
• Using data, experimentation, and deep customer insight to inform decision‑making and continuous product optimization.
• Driving initiatives that push Runa closer to its vision of a unified global payout platform.

What Excites Us

• You have deep experience in payments, payout infrastructure, or financial technology, ideally within high‑growth or scaling environments.
• You've successfully led complex, cross‑functional product initiatives involving technical, regulatory, and financial considerations.
• You combine strategic thinking with strong execution, you know when to experiment, when to iterate, and when to scale.
• You're a natural mentor and collaborator, helping elevate those around you while keeping focus on impact.
• You communicate clearly and influence effectively across all levels of an organization.
• You're comfortable with ambiguity, adapt quickly, and bring a pragmatic, problem‑solving mindset to everything you do.

Even if you do not meet all of the above requirements but still think you would be a good fit for the role we would still encourage you to apply.

What's in it for you

• We have a hybrid structure with the requirement of 2 days a week at our London Office (Shoreditch)
• £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.

The Interview Process

• Talent Screen - Talent Partner
• Hiring Manager Interview - Head of Product & Design
• Task Interview - Product & Engineering Panel
• Cross‑functional - Product & CS Panel
• Values Interview - Leadership Team

Diversity and Inclusion

We are committed to providing a hiring and working experience in which all people feel they are equally respected and valued regardless of race, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.