Senior Programme Manager — Fintech & Banking

Shine; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Shine is seeking a Senior Programme Manager to orchestrate cross-team banking outcomes, including regulatory milestones and core infrastructure migrations, across Europe. You will align Product, Tech, Legal, Compliance, Ops and external partners to deliver complex programmes on time.

Reporting to the Director of Strategic Providers and Projects, you will influence multiple markets (France, Germany, NL, Denmark) and ensure scope, risk and governance stay aligned with safe, compliant and scalable

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience in Programme Management, PMO, or Chief of Staff in product-driven fintech.
• Complex delivery record across cross-functional initiatives.
• Product-led fluency with incremental delivery and scope shifts.
• Systems thinker mapping dependencies across internal teams, vendors and regulators.
• Ruthless prioritizer protecting critical path while maintaining security and compliance.
• Pragmatic under pressure, choosing lean processes to solve problems.
• Master facilitator running high-efficiency, decision-focused sessions.
• Autonomous and practical with lean artifacts.
• Technically literate with APIs, data flows, platform migrations and release readiness.
• Commercially aware weighing cost of delay and capacity constraints.
• Regulatory awareness of EU financial regulations (PSD2, DORA, ACPR/BaFin/DNB).
• Languages: English required; French, German, Dutch or Danish a plus.
• Modern tooling proficiency with Linear, Notion or equivalents.

Responsibilities

• Orchestrate end-to-end banking programmes across Product, Tech, Legal, Compliance, Ops and vendors.
• Define clear success metrics, ownership and post-launch reviews.
• Protect regulatory/market dates by managing scope while maintaining guardrails.
• Drive sliced delivery along the critical path to de-risk launches.
• Partner with Product leadership to prioritize programmes and trade-offs.
• Own launch and operational readiness including runbooks, migrations, and monitoring.
• Align cross-functional teams through clarity and trust rather than authority.
• Deliver concise status reports for leadership and Steering Committees.
• Facilitate workshops designed for fast decision-making.
• Manage dependencies and risks across teams, vendors and regulators.
• Establish decision rights to resolve locally and escalate when needed.
• Use governance to accelerate execution and remove roadblocks.

Job description

Shine is seeking a Senior Programme Manager to orchestrate cross-team banking outcomes, including regulatory milestones and core infrastructure migrations, across Europe. You will align Product, Tech, Legal, Compliance, Ops and external partners to deliver complex programmes on time.

Reporting to the Director of Strategic Providers and Projects, you will influence multiple markets (France, Germany, NL, Denmark) and ensure scope, risk and governance stay aligned with safe, compliant and scalable