Product Owner (Payments experience)

Visa; Greater London; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading payments company in Greater London seeks an experienced Product Manager to drive the product lifecycle for cross-border payment solutions. The role involves collaborating with stakeholders to prioritize features, ensuring alignment with business goals, and managing the product backlog. The ideal candidate has a minimum of 2 years’ experience in the payments industry, strong analytical abilities, and excellent communication skills. This hybrid position requires 3 days in the office, providing a dynamic work environment with significant impact on product strategy.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years’ experience as a Product Manager in the payments industry.
• Experience with SWIFT payments and ISO 20022 standards.
• Strong communication skills to bridge business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive product lifecycle from creation through launch and growth.
• Work with stakeholders to understand business objectives.
• Attend Agile team ceremonies and ensure backlog alignment.

Skills

Analytical mindset

Cross-functional teamwork

Attention to detail

User centric approach

Tools

Jira

Jira Align

Job description

Company Description

Visa is a world leader in payments and technology, with over 259 billion payments transactions flowing safely between consumers, merchants, financial institutions, and government entities in more than 200 countries and territories each year. Our mission is to connect the world through the most innovative, convenient, reliable, and secure payments network, enabling individuals, businesses, and economies to thrive while driven by a common purpose – to uplift everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.

Make an impact with a purpose-driven industry leader. Join us today and experience Life at Visa.

Job Description

What's it all about?

TheProduct teamare responsible for creating and building a world class cross-border payments solution, supporting a portfolio of products and adding delivering value to customers.

As aProduct Manageryou will work closely with the Senior Product Manager and Agile Team to deliver the functionality and associated user experience of the product, from definition to implementation, through to optimization.

You will take the high level priorities from the Senior Product Manager and internal/external stakeholders and prioritize them to deliver features that enhance clients’ experience and deliver business value

You will ensure that prioritization is carried through to delivery, working with the agile teams to identify dependencies and blockers to ensure that decisions made align with the product vision and deliver business value

You will translate the business objectives into clearly articulated features, ensuring that the business objectives are understood by all teams at every stage of the development.

What we expect of you, day to day.

This role will report to theSeniorProduct Managerand be responsible for turning the product vision, strategy and design into reality. This role requires an experienced Product Manager with deep payments experience, preferably with prior experience in one of the following:

• Hands‑on expertise withSWIFT Payments, including understanding of MX message types (pacs.008, pacs.002, etc.).
• Strong knowledge ofISO20022 standardsand their application in payment systems.
• Familiarity withpayment related message transformation and file‑based payment instruction frameworks, such as batch file formats used for initiating and processing payments.

The ideal candidate will need to have the ability to deliver:

Drive end-to-end product lifecycle, from feature creation through launch and growth

• Work with Senior Product Manager and Internal/External stakeholders to understand and translate business objectives, priorities and requirements
• Work cross functionally with multiple teams across the organization to ensure alignment and address dependencies
• Decompose of epics into features to drive product improvement and enhancements
• Prioritize team backlog, ensuring it aligns with business objectives
• Ensure features are clearly written and understood by the Persistent (Agile) team
• Attend and participate in Agile team ceremonies

SME in Your Functional Area

• Become the Subject Matter Expert for your functional area, acting as main point of contact for any questions from internal/external stakeholders
• Support end‑to‑end development of product features from discovery through launch
• Support training, documentation and implementation activities for Product Features

This is a hybrid position and will require 3 days per week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) attendance in the office.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years’ experience as a Product Manager in the payments industry
• Experience working with SWIFT payments, ISO 20022 standards or file‑based payment instruction frameworks
• Strong analytical mindset and successful track record of working with cross‑functional teams
• Self‑starter, with ability to work independently, prioritize workload to meet deadlines and works well under pressure.
• Results orientated mindset with commitment to achieving goals, overcoming obstacles, and integrating changes into work processes
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of cross border payments, payment standards, payment processing technologies and regulations
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to bridge the gap between business and technical teams.
• Great attention to detail.
• Open to feedback, able to deal with ambiguity and juggle multiple projects
• Working experience in using Jira, and Jira Align
• User centric approach with experience delivering product features
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders at varying levels of seniority using a collaborative approach.

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.