Senior Product Manager

JustBacked; Manchester; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Ryft, a fintech payments platform based in Manchester, seeks a Senior Product Manager to bridge executive strategy with engineering delivery. You will translate business vision into a concrete roadmap and drive features across the payments stack for global marketplaces.

In this hybrid role, you’ll collaborate with Exec, Sales and Engineering teams to stay ahead of industry trends, manage regulatory considerations, and define measurable success metrics for product iterations.

Qualifications

• Fintech/payments experience on B2B or fintech products.
• Clear communication between executive leadership and technical teams.
• Data-driven prioritisation to protect platform integrity.
• Agile leadership in fast-paced startup environments.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Roadmap Ownership: Work directly with the Exec and Sales teams to identify market opportunities and define the features that keep the Ryft Payments Platform at the cutting edge.
• Bridge Sales & Engineering: Translate complex commercial needs and customer feedback into clear, actionable technical requirements and user stories for our engineering squads.
• End-to-End Delivery: Collaborate closely with Software Engineering to ensure features are built to a high standard and delivered on time for Ryft customers.
• Stakeholder Management: Balance competing priorities between sales-led requests and long-term platform scalability, keeping all parties aligned and informed.
• Market & Regulatory Insight: Stay ahead of industry trends and regulatory changes (like PSD3) to ensure Ryft remains compliant and competitive.
• Product Success: Define and track key performance metrics to measure the impact of new features and inform future iterations.

Skills

Fintech/payments

Strategic communication

Prioritisation

Technical literacy

Agile leadership

Job description

About Ryft

Ryft is a regulated payment facilitator and authorised payment institution building the infrastructure layer for modern commerce platforms.

We enable marketplaces, SaaS platforms and multi-party ecosystems to embed and monetise payments natively. Our technology handles onboarding, compliance, orchestration, split payments and revenue sharing, allowing our partners to focus on growth while we manage complexity.

We are now entering the next phase of scale, expanding into new verticals and building a category-defining embedded payments platform.

About The Job

Are you a strategic thinker who loves the intersection of business, technology, and finance? We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join Ryft, a high-growth fintech start-up, to help define and drive the next generation of our payments platform.

In this pivotal role, you will act as the bridge between our Executive/Sales teams and our Software Engineering teams. You will be responsible for translating high-level business vision and commercial requirements into a concrete, executable product roadmap. You won't just be managing features; you'll be shaping the future of how marketplaces and merchants handle payments globally.

This is a hybrid role based in central Manchester, with 2 days per week in the office.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Roadmap Ownership: Work directly with the Exec and Sales teams to identify market opportunities and define the features that keep the Ryft Payments Platform at the cutting edge.


• Bridge Sales & Engineering: Translate complex commercial needs and customer feedback into clear, actionable technical requirements and user stories for our engineering squads.


• End-to-End Delivery: Collaborate closely with Software Engineering to ensure features are built to a high standard and delivered on time for Ryft customers.


• Stakeholder Management: Balance competing priorities between sales-led requests and long-term platform scalability, keeping all parties aligned and informed.


• Market & Regulatory Insight: Stay ahead of industry trends and regulatory changes (like PSD3) to ensure Ryft remains compliant and competitive.


• Product Success: Define and track key performance metrics to measure the impact of new features and inform future iterations.

Experience & Skills Required

• Fintech/Payments Background: Proven experience managing B2B or Fintech products, ideally with a deep understanding of the payment value chain (Gateways, Acquirers, etc.).


• Strategic Communication: Exceptional ability to communicate with both executive leadership and technical teams, translating \"business-speak\" into \"dev-speak\" and vice-versa.


• Prioritisation Excellence: A data-driven approach to prioritisation, with the ability to say \"no\" or \"not now\" to protect the platform's integrity.


• Technical Literacy: While you don't need to write code, you should be comfortable discussing system architecture and technical constraints with senior engineers.


• Agile Leadership: Experience working in fast-paced, high-growth startup environments using Agile methodologies to deliver complex products.

Nice to Have

• Marketplace Experience: Familiarity with automated merchant onboarding and marketplace settlement flows.


• Regulatory Knowledge: Experience navigating financial compliance and regulatory landscapes.

Why Ryft?

At Ryft, we value a \"founder's mindset.\" You will have a massive impact on our trajectory and the autonomy to own significant parts of our product strategy. If you thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and want to build the future of fintech, we want to hear from you.

Right to Work: Applicants must have the right to work in the UK.