Senior Product Manager

GoCardless; Greater London; On-site; GBP 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Wellbeing

Work away scheme

Adaptive Working

Parental leave

Learning Budget

Time off

Job summary

GoCardless in London is seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead the Payment Flows product within the Bank Payment Network Group. You will define and build propositions to settle money faster, leverage ML to confirm payments, and enhance merchant experiences.

You will work closely with the Engineering Manager, Data Scientist, Product Marketing, Customer Success, and other Product teams to drive revenue and realise our product vision.

Qualifications

• Data-led decisions and qualitative insights to identify opportunities.
• Strong leadership and cross-functional influence across teams.
• Ability to define strategy and prioritise problems with impact.

Responsibilities

• Define and build propositions to improve settlement speed and payment experiences.
• Lead product improvements with Engineering Manager and Data Scientist.
• Collaborate with Product Marketing, Customer Success and other Product teams to achieve outcomes.

Skills

Data-led decision-making

Leadership

Problem discovery

Delivering customer value

Collaborative leadership

Job description

About us

GoCardless is a global bank payment company. Over 100,000 businesses, from start-ups to household names, use GoCardless to collect and send payments through direct debit, real-time payments and open banking.

GoCardless processes US$130bn+ of payments annually, across 30+ countries; helping customers collect and send both recurring and one-off payments, without the chasing, stress or expensive fees. We use AI-powered solutions to improve payment success and reduce fraud. And, with open banking connectivity to over 2,500 banks, we help our customers make faster, more informed decisions.

We are headquartered in the UK with offices in London and Leeds, and additional locations in Australia, France, Ireland, Latvia, Portugal and the United States.

At GoCardless, we're all about supporting you! We’re committed to making our hiring process inclusive and accessible. If you need extra support or adjustments, reach out to your Talent Partner — we’re here to help!

And remember: we don’t expect you to meet every single requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply!

The role

This role will be working at the heart of the GoCardless product in our Payment Flows team, within the Bank Payment Network Group. The team ensures that merchant money is settled quickly, with high certainty, on every payment scheme we provide. You will define and build propositions that provide market leading outcomes: building the capabilities to settle money faster, leveraging ML to confirm payments sooner, and unlocking payment capabilities that give merchants the best experience.

The Senior Product Manager will work closely with the team’s Engineering Manager and Data Scientist to lead the product improvements that help our customers and drive revenue. You will also collaborate closely with Product Marketing, Customer Success, and other Product teams to achieve great outcomes for our customers and work towards our product vision.

What excites you

• Delivering customer and business value: Being relentlessly focused on understanding and solving the customer problems which result in them using GoCardless as much as they can.
• Problem discovery and prioritisation: Taking complex and ambiguous product problems and structuring these effectively. This includes clearly defining the problem space, the impact of the problem and your prioritisation process.
• Data-led decision-making: Using quantitative and qualitative evidence to support your decisions and opportunity identification.
• Defining Product Strategy: Identifying key customer segments, and our approach to meeting their needs over the longer term in ways that create value for them and GoCardless.
• Influencing and communication: Building collaborative relationships with your team, stakeholders and executives to deliver change effectively across your remit. This includes growing to become the go-to person for your product area; translating complex, technical problems into understandable concepts; and convincing stakeholders of the best approach using structured reasoning.
• Leadership: Setting direction and coordinating action across a range of teams and functions.
• Shipping stuff: Working with your team to support changes to completion, delivering consistent positive impact across your product area. Being comfortable delivering a range of projects: from MVP experiments testing a hypothesis to a new feature.

What excites us

• Delivery of impact: You are focused on delivering business value through experimentation and have experience of doing that.
• Exceptional problem-solving and analytical skills: We want our Product Managers to have an outstanding ability to tackle valuable customer and business problems. At GoCardless we start by asking ‘why?’, and a data-led approach is central to how we run Product. You have a customer centric approach and are comfortable with qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• High agency: We’re after people who aren’t afraid of a challenge and will take ownership of problems they come across and help to resolve them and adapt to a constantly changing environment.
• Collaborative leaders: Product roles bring responsibility without direct authority. We’re looking for leaders who can motivate and earn the trust of stakeholders and teams with a collaborative approach.

We don’t expect you to meet every requirement. If you’re excited by this role, we encourage you to apply.

Base salary range: £100,000 - £150,000

Base salary ranges are based on role, job level, location, and market data. Please note that whilst we strive to offer competitive compensation, our approach is to pay between the minimum and the mid-point (£100,000 - £125,000) of the pay range until performance can be assessed in role. Offers will take into account level of experience, interview assessment, budgets and parity between you and fellow employees at GoCardless doing similar work.

(some of) The good stuff

• Wellbeing - stay healthy with dedicated support and medical cover
• Work away scheme - gives you the option to work away from your country of residence for up to 90 days in any 12 month period
• Adaptive Working - allows you to work flexibly, around your lifestyle
• Parental leave - to suit everyone embarking on life's great adventure
• Learning Budget - lead your own development with an annual learning budget
• Time off - generous holiday allowance, + 3 annual volunteer days, + 4 annual business-wide wellness days (GC Fridays)

Life at GoCardless

We're an organisation defined by ourvalues; We start with why before we begin any project, to ensure it’s aligned with our mission. We act with integrity, always. We care deeply about what we do and we know it's essential that we be humble whilst we do it. Working this way creates the GC magic- the reason we all love showing up to work.

Diversity & Inclusion

As of April 2025, we had 806 employees (GeeCees) globally, with 524 based in the UK, 163 based in Latvia and 119 across our other offices.

To ensure that we're representative of the world around us - and to be able to review relevant benchmarks - we ask GeeCees to voluntarily disclose diversity data. This year, the proportion of GeeCees providing data increased to 88% (up from 79% in 2024). With regards to diversity within GoCardless, we can see GeeCees identifying as:

Asian, Black, Mixed or Other - 25%

Neurodiverse - 9%

LGBTQIA+ - 9%

Disabled - 1%

Average age - 33

Female - 45%

Male - 55%

We’re rooting for you during your application and GoCardless aims to provide reasonable adjustments to make our recruitment process as remarkable and accessible as we can. Please speak to your Talent Partner if you need extra support.

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Sustainability

We’re committed to reducing our impact on the environment, leaving a more sustainable world for future generations. Check out our sustainability action plan here.