Product Manager

Sage; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Generous bonuses and pension

25 days annual leave (+5)

8 bank holidays

Volunteer days

Income protection 50%

Holiday buy/sell

Health, dental, and vision

Work away scheme

Training and development

Hybrid working

Mind app membership

Memberships for wellbeing

Job summary

Sage is transforming from traditional accounting software into an AI-powered financial platform. We seek a Group Product Manager for Payments & Fintech to shape how small businesses get paid, manage payments and access capital in the UK & Ireland, with Canada expansion and global ambitions.

The role is hybrid with 3 days in our Newcastle office. You’ll drive strategy, lead cross-functional teams and build scalable, AI-enabled financial experiences across markets.

Qualifications

• Proven leadership in payments, fintech or financial services products.
• Strong commercial mindset with link between strategy and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to set direction, prioritise decisively and translate strategy into valuable products.
• Experience influencing diverse, cross-functional teams without formal authority.
• Customer-led, data-driven approach to discovery, experimentation and optimization.

Responsibilities

• Define and deliver the payments & fintech roadmap across AR, AP and access to capital.
• Own portfolio outcomes, grow payments adoption and revenue opportunities.
• Create seamless experiences using customer insight, experimentation and AI-powered workflows.
• Partner with global platform and engineering teams to build scalable payment capabilities and APIs.
• Lead through influence with cross-functional alignment around a shared vision.
• Navigate regulatory and market differences while maintaining a coherent global platform.
• Use AI to accelerate discovery and decision-making with quality and responsible use.

Skills

Leadership in product

Payments & fintech

Cross-functional influence

Data-driven discovery

AI in product

Market expansion

Job description

We’re transforming Sage from traditional accounting software into an AI-powered financial platform that helps small businesses thrive. Payments and cash flow are at the heart of this journey.

As Group Product Manager for Payments & Fintech, you’ll shape how small businesses get paid, manage payments and access capital through Sage. You’ll set the product vision, drive delivery and lead a cross-functional team to create smarter, more seamless financial experiences — starting in the UK and Ireland, expanding into Canada, and with global ambitions.

This is a hybrid role, with 3 days working from our Newcastle office.

What you’ll do:

Set the strategy: Define and deliver the payments and fintech roadmap across Accounts Receivable, Accounts Payable and Access to Capital.

Drive commercial impact: Own portfolio outcomes, growing payments adoption, revenue opportunities and customer retention.

Create better experiences: Use customer insight, experimentation and AI-powered workflows to simplify financial tasks and help customers manage cash flow.

Build for scale: Partner with global platform and engineering teams to develop reusable payment capabilities, APIs and experiences that work across markets.

Lead through influence: Align Product, Engineering, Design, Commerce, Mobile, Marketing and external partners around a shared vision.

Navigate complexity: Balance customer needs, commercial priorities, regulation and local market requirements while maintaining a coherent global platform.

Embrace AI: Use AI tools to accelerate discovery, research and decision-making, with a focus on quality, evidence and responsible use.

What you’ll bring

Proven product leadership experience in payments, fintech or financial services, ideally across customer-facing products and platform/API capabilities.

A strong commercial mindset, with experience linking product strategy to measurable business outcomes.

The ability to set direction, prioritise decisively and turn strategy into products customers value.

Experience influencing and aligning diverse, cross-functional teams without relying on formal authority.

A customer-led, data-driven approach to discovery, experimentation and product optimisation.

An understanding of the challenges of delivering financial products across different markets, regulations and payment ecosystems.

Confidence using AI to improve product discovery, analysis and delivery, alongside sound judgement and clear communication.

What success looks like:

In your first 12 months, you’ll deliver the payments strategy across the UK and Ireland and Canada, grow measurable adoption across payments and cash flow capabilities, strengthen alignment with Sage’s global platform teams, and help bring differentiated, AI-powered financial experiences to market.

Benefits? We have plenty...

• Generous bonuses and pension scheme: Up to 8% matched pension contribution plus 2% top-up by Sage.
• 25 days of paid annual leave with the option to buy up to another 5 days
• 8 bank holiday days
• Paid 5 days yearly to volunteer through our Sage Foundation
• 50% income protection
• Holiday buy + sell
• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision coverage
• Work away scheme for up to 10 weeks a year
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Hybrid working
• Healthy Mind app membership
• Access to various helpful memberships for finances, health and wellbeing

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Product Delivery

United Kingdom

Newcastle

Hybrid

Working at Sage means you’re supporting millions of small and medium sized businesses globally with technology to work faster and smarter. We leverage the future of AI, meaning business owners spend less time doing routine tasks, like entering invoices and generating reports, and more time pursuing their ambitions.

Our colleagues are the best of the best. It’s why we were awarded 2024 Best Places to Work by Glassdoor. Because to achieve extraordinary outcomes, we need extraordinary teams. This means infusing Sage with people who knock down barriers, continuously innovate, and want to experience their potential.

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Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)

Sage is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity and providing reasonable accommodations to applicants with physical and/or mental disabilities.

In order to provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all individuals, employment decisions at Sage will be based on merit, qualifications, and abilities. Sage does not discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, protected disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.