Payments Platform Lead - Principal PM (Contract)

Xcede; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 83,000 - 101,000; Full time

Job summary

Xcede is seeking a Principal Product Manager for a payments platform in London. This contract role is hybrid, with a daily rate around £500 and a duration of 6–12 months. You will define the vision, own the roadmap, and lead delivery programmes within a maturing product function.

Expect senior stakeholder engagement and hands-on leadership in a payments-focused environment. The role requires deep payments knowledge, strong decision-making, and ability to accelerate product practice across the

Qualifications

• Hands-on product leader with payments domain expertise.
• Demonstrated ability to define strategy and deliver complex programmes.
• Strong ability to influence stakeholders up to C-suite level.

Responsibilities

• Define the product vision and strategy for your payments area.
• Own the roadmap and lead complex delivery programmes from direction through execution.
• Identify and prioritise opportunities balancing customer value, commercial return, feasibility and effort.
• Build commercially sound propositions with clear business impact.
• Hold product teams to account by testing assumptions, estimates, scope and priorities.
• Provide senior stakeholders with evidence-based delivery health, risk and priorities.
• Lead, coach and mentor product team members and support hiring.
• Contribute to evolving the product operating model with leadership.

Skills

Payments depth

Senior product leadership

P&L awareness

Stakeholder management

Job description

Xcede is seeking a Principal Product Manager for a payments platform in London. This contract role is hybrid, with a daily rate around £500 and a duration of 6–12 months. You will define the vision, own the roadmap, and lead delivery programmes within a maturing product function.

Expect senior stakeholder engagement and hands-on leadership in a payments-focused environment. The role requires deep payments knowledge, strong decision-making, and ability to accelerate product practice across the