Senior Product Operations Manager Payments

Perk; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading fintech company based in London is seeking a Senior Product Operations Manager to enhance their Payments group. This role focuses on driving operational excellence, optimizing processes, and addressing systemic challenges. Ideal candidates will have over 5 years of experience in tech operations, particularly in Payments or Fintech. Strong skills in data analysis and process design, along with excellent communication abilities, are essential. The position operates on a hybrid model requiring office presence three days a week.

Benefits

Diverse work environment

Relocation support for certain roles

Three days a week in office model

Qualifications

• Extensive experience in a tech-driven operations role, ideally in Payments or Fintech.
• Proficient in advanced data analysis to drive decision-making.
• Experience designing and optimizing complex end-to-end processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead initiatives to solve systemic challenges in the Payments product area.
• Identify inefficiencies using data analysis to generate value.
• Manage operational, security, financial, and compliance risks.

Skills

Data analysis

Process design

Risk management

Stakeholder management

Communication skills

Education

5+ years experience in tech operations

Tools

Data analysis tools

Job description

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.

We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem.

Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.

At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.

Visit www.perk.com to learn more.

About the Role

At Perk, we empower cross-functional teams to deliver exceptional results for our customers and the business. We are looking for a Senior Product Operations Manager to join our Payments group—the engine that ensures every transaction on our platform is seamless, secure, and scalable.

The Payments product area is a critical pillar of Perk’s platform. It handles complex flows involving money movement, settlement, billing and financial reporting across our global platform. For our customers, it means reliability and a smooth accounting reconciliation process; for our internal teams, it means efficiency and automation.

In this role, you will lead operational excellence initiatives for the Payments area, identifying and solving systemic challenges that impact multiple squads and tribes, such as scaling our hotel invoice collection process, or ensuring reliable, optimal supplier payments. You’ll be the go‑to person for coordinating rapid responses to operational crises and will design the frameworks that ensure high-performance operations as we scale. We need a strategic thinker who is obsessed with execution and can step into the shoes of our internal users—like Finance and Customer Care—to design impactful, intuitive workflows.

What You’ll Do

• Drive Operational Excellence: Lead initiatives across the Payments product area to solve systemic challenges. Develop and implement frameworks that ensure consistent, high-performance operations across teams.

• Optimise at Scale: Use advanced data analysis to identify inefficiencies and propose improvements that generate significant value, using AI to drive automation.

• Be the Internal Voice of the Customer: Balance internal teams’ operational needs with broader business objectives, ensuring efficiency gains never sacrifice the end-user experience.

• Manage Complex Risks: Proficiently identify and mitigate operational, security, financial, and compliance risks across the product area. Collaborate with Legal and Security teams to define acceptable risk levels and implement robust controls.

• Influence and Collaborate: Work with stakeholders across the company, as well as third parties, to define your goals and execute your plans.

• Mentor and Lead: Provide guidance to more junior team members, helping them grow in their roles.

What You’ll Need

• Experience That Counts: Extensive experience in a tech-driven operations role (typically 5+ years in tech). Experience in the Payments or Fintech space is a strong plus.

• Data Fluency: Proficiency in using advanced data analysis tools and methodologies to drive decision-making and measure success.

• Process Design Expertise: A proven ability to design and optimize complex end-to-end processes, including experience with wireframing and user flow visualization.

• Risk & Compliance Mindset: Comfortable navigating complex regulatory environments and identifying financial or operational risks before they become issues.

• Strategic Execution: A track record of breaking down complex, systemic problems into actionable steps that deliver incremental value.

• Stakeholder Mastery: The ability to influence across functions, evaluate requests based on clear prioritization, and confidently say "no" when alignment is missing.

• Communication Excellence: Skill in translating complex operational narratives into straightforward, structured communications for diverse audiences.

How We Work

At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.

Protect Yourself from Recruitment Scams

All official communication from Perk will always come from email addresses ending in @perk.com or @externalperk.com, our verified social media channels, or recruiters listed on our official LinkedIn page. We will never ask you to pay for equipment, training, or fees, request sensitive personal information such as bank details early in the process, or communicate through unofficial apps like WhatsApp, Telegram, or Signal. If you receive a message claiming to be from Perk that seems suspicious, please do not respond. Forward it to security [at] perk [dot] com, and we will confirm whether it is legitimate.