Product Manager, Alternative Payment Methods

Checkout.com; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Checkout.com is seeking a Product Manager to lead the Alternative Payment Method portfolio, with a focus on bank-based rails. You will drive company OKRs, expand our merchant reach, and provide cross-functional leadership across product, engineering, and business teams to embed APMs within Checkout.com's ecosystem.

You will collaborate with multiple stakeholders, translate merchant needs into API experiences, and shape the roadmap using data-driven insights.

Qualifications

• 3-5 years of product management experience.
• Experience working in payment methods, especially direct debit and account-to-account payment methods.
• Data-driven: using data and insights to set priorities and drive roadmaps.
• Customer-first: balance long-term opportunities with immediate needs.
• End-to-end mindset: manage all components for product success.
• Leadership: collaborate effectively with diverse teams and stakeholders.
• Effective communicator: articulate vision and align teams.

Responsibilities

• Set the strategy for the APM portfolio, balance new vs existing payments, and decide on prioritization based on research and data.
• Become an expert in payment methods and work with partners to drive value for merchants.
• Design the API and integration to deliver a consistent developer experience across products and APMs.
• Build strong partnerships with business, product, and technology stakeholders to maintain momentum.
• Align roadmaps with engineering and product teams to ensure coherent delivery.
• Understand Checkout.com customers and business to guide the product direction.
• Foster a team culture that aligns with Checkout.com's operating principles.

Job description

Company Description

. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day.

We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers.

Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.

If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact.

With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started.

Product Manager: Alternative Payment Processing

Checkout.com is seeking a Product Manager and leader to join our team of product managers working to add and improve our Alternative Payment Method (APM) portfolio, with a focus on bank-based payment rails. This role will help drive our company OKR of expanding and enhancing the payment methods we offer merchants around the world, helping these businesses grow their global footprint. The successful candidate will provide cross-functional leadership across product, engineering, and business teams, to ensure our APM portfolio is embedded throughout Checkout.com’s ecosystem, enabling a seamless experience for our merchants. They will work across the business and engage with merchants to align on the selection of APMs, drive the recommended approach to offer or improve them, design the API experience and collaborate with more than twenty stakeholder teams to deliver APMs end-to-end. Daily tasks include understanding stakeholders’ pain points, driving prioritization for product development, and developing new capabilities for our customers.

Company Description

We’re Checkout.com. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day.

We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers.

Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.

If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact.

With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started.

Product Manager: Alternative Payment Processing

Checkout.com is seeking a Product Manager and leader to join our team of product managers working to add and improve our Alternative Payment Method (APM) portfolio, with a focus on bank-based payment rails. This role will help drive our company OKR of expanding and enhancing the payment methods we offer merchants around the world, helping these businesses grow their global footprint. The successful candidate will provide cross-functional leadership across product, engineering, and business teams, to ensure our APM portfolio is embedded throughout Checkout.com’s ecosystem, enabling a seamless experience for our merchants. They will work across the business and engage with merchants to align on the selection of APMs, drive the recommended approach to offer or improve them, design the API experience and collaborate with more than twenty stakeholder teams to deliver APMs end-to-end. Daily tasks include understanding stakeholders’ pain points, driving prioritization for product development, and developing new capabilities for our customers.

About You

• 3-5 years of product management experience.
• Experience working in payment methods, especially direct debit and account-to-account payment methods
• Data-driven: Skilled at leveraging data and business insights to determine strategic priorities and drive the product roadmap and execution.
• Customer-first: Think from the customer's perspective and can balance future opportunities with immediate needs.
• End-to-end mindset: Think in a structured and diligent manner, understanding all key components necessary to drive the ongoing success of a product.
• Leadership: Excellent at collaborating with stakeholders in product, engineering, commercial, and business teams proactively, demonstrating high EQ and influencing skills.
• Effective communicator: Able to inspire others with a shared vision and simplify complex concepts for a wide range of audiences.

Key Responsibilities

• Set the strategy for your portfolio of APMs, including understanding the target market, customers and aims for each APM, to determine the best approach for delivering the APMs, and how to balance adding new APMs vs working on enhancements for the existing portfolio, using qualitative and quantitative research and data to make decisions.
• Become an expert in your payment methods, working closely with the payment partners to understand trends and drivers for success, which you will leverage to support our commercial team and drive value for our merchants.
• Work with engineering and product counterparts to design the API and integration for each APM, to deliver an optimal developer experience which balances a consistent API experience across Checkout.com’s products with the nuances of each different APM.
• Build strong partnerships with business, product, and technology stakeholders and work with them for their buy-in and collaboration to generate momentum for your products
• Work with other product and engineering leaders to ensure alignment with their roadmaps and delivery
• Gain a deep understanding of Checkout.com ’s customers and business.
• Foster a team culture that upholds Checkout.com’s operating principles.

Additional Information

Bring all of you to work

We create the conditions for high performers to thrive, through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one.

Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity, and where your growth is in your hands.

We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here.

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Life at Checkout.com

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