Lead Product Manager - Acquiring

Xpand Group; City Of London; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading Fintech company is seeking a Lead Product Manager to shape the card payments experience and drive company growth. You'll own the Acquiring and Payment facilitation from scratch, manage initiatives, and lead a team in a collaborative environment. Ideal candidates have significant experience in payments and a proven track record in building financial products. This role offers an impactful opportunity in a scaling organization.

Qualifications

• Significant experience in payments, card acquiring or merchant services.
• Proven track record of building complex financial products in a Fintech or B2B payments tech scale-up.
• Strong understanding of payment facilitation, merchant onboarding, settlement flows and risk/compliance.

Responsibilities

• Own the Acquiring and Payment facilitation experience.
• Shape how the company becomes a true PayFac.
• Explore alternative payment methods and new ways for customers to get paid.

Skills

Experience in payments

Building complex financial products

Understanding of payment facilitation

Managing cross company initiatives

Managing other Product Managers

Job description

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Lead Product Manager - Card Acquiring/ Payfac ecosystem

Salt has partnered with a leading, product-led pan-European Fintech who aim to simplify life for small and medium businesses across Europe through cutting edge, AI driven products.

With substantial funding to date and backing from a highly reputable and successful VC, the company are entering a phase of scaled growth with ambition to 10X their customer base by the end of 2026.

They are looking to hire a Lead Product Manager to own their Acquiring and Payment facilitation experience from scratch, building the systems and experiences that help their customer accept payments and get paid faster. You'll shape how the company becomes a true PayFac, owning everything from merchant onboarding to settlements.

Alongside driving the card payments vision and strategy, you will also help the business explore alternative payment methods and new ways for customers to get paid as they scale.

This is a core growth role for the company: the foundation for how they'll help customer get paid and a key driver for their next phase of business expansion.

Here are a few key requirements:

• Significant experience in payments, card acquiring or merchant services.
• Proven track record of building complex financial products, ideally in a Fintech or B2B payments tech scale-up.
• Strong understanding of payment facilitation, merchant onboarding, settlement flows and risk/ compliance.
• Experience managing cross company initiatives.
• Experience managing other Product Managers.
• Plus points if you have worked with card networks (Visa/ Mastercard) or payment processors.

This role offers a unique opportunity for impact, driving a vital growth lever in a scaling Fintech, with autonomy to lead a key strategic domain end to end in a highly collaborative, smart and mission-driven culture.

If you're interested in exploring the role further, please apply today.

*Rates depend on experience and client requirements