Product Management Lead (m/f/d)

Apply now!; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Riverty seeks a senior Product Leader to own the risk decisioning platform's strategy, roadmap, and delivery. You will work with risk strategy, analytics, engineering, and product teams across domains to enable real-time credit and fraud decisions.

You will build and guide product teams, drive modernization, and manage regulatory considerations. This role is based in Amsterdam or Berlin with flexible, hybrid working arrangements.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product leadership experience in risk, credit, or financial services.
• Experience setting strategy and leading through regulatory change.
• Proven ability to build and scale product teams.
• Strong stakeholder management across commercial, technical, and regulatory groups.
• Fluent in English; German language skills are a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the product roadmap for the risk decisioning platform and align with risk, commercial, and technology needs.
• Lead and grow a team of product managers, fostering domain expertise.
• Drive platform modernization, stability, and scalability while reducing technical debt.
• Translate business and regulatory requirements into technical designs and service commitments.
• Prioritize intake for new requests with transparent trade-offs and escalation when needed.
• Keep stakeholders aligned through regular updates and ensure regulatory deadlines are met.

Skills

Product leadership

Risk domain expertise

Regulatory knowledge

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

English fluency

German language (nice to have)

Job description

Everyone’s story matters. Come shape your story with us at Riverty.

But where does that take you?

To one of our 30 hybrid workspaces – designed for exchanging ideas, learning from others, and shaping the way we work. An international community of over 4,000 people, representing almost 80 nationalities across 11 countries. United by one mission: Combining empathy, advanced technology and data-driven insights to keep people and businesses in flow. With payments made for them. So that they don’t have to worry about it.

And there’s more. We are part of the family-owned Bertelsmann group. Established. Corporate. In a fast-paced industry. We enable flexible payments in various industries, simplifying the financial management of known brands and helping people repay debt to build financial confidence. In short: shaping FinTech.

Job Description

We are looking for a

(unlimited, full-time) Join our team at our location in Berlin or Amsterdam – flexible working conditions available

As part of the Product Organisation serving the Payments and Credit Business Unit in Riverty, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Riverty’s risk decisioning platform, the technology that powers real-time credit and fraud decisions across our payments and credit products. You will report to the overall Platform Product Lead and work closely with risk strategy, risk analytics, engineering, and product teams across other domains.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Own the product roadmap for our risk decisioning platform, turning demand from risk, commercial, and technology teams into a clear, prioritized plan
• Lead and grow a team of product managers, while building a culture of strong risk domain expertise
• Drive platform stability, modernization, and scalability, managing technical debt and infrastructure improvements along the way
• Decide how business and regulatory requirements translate into technical designs and service commitments
• Own intake and prioritization for new requests, making transparent trade-off calls and escalating where needed
• Keep stakeholders aligned through regular communication and reporting, and ensure the platform meets upcoming regulatory deadlines

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of product leadership experience in risk, credit, or financial services, with a track record of setting strategy and leading through regulatory change and large platform transformations
• Strong domain expertise in credit risk, fraud prevention, or lending operations, including scoring, decisioning, credit limits, and portfolio management
• Working knowledge of consumer credit regulation and how it shapes product and platform decisions
• Experience building and leading product teams, and managing a mix of legacy and modern systems toward a scalable, modernized platform
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to turn competing priorities from commercial, technical, and regulatory teams into a clear roadmap
• Fluent in English, German is a plus

Additional Information

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Work Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands, 1079 MZ