Product Manager - Payments

Company:

Space has partnered with a fast growing payment scale up who have just received a £4m injection of cash!

The business offer various payment solution - Payment Gateway, Open Banking Payments, Direct Debit, Real-time payments.

Key verticals include - Financial Services, Ecommerce, and Ticketing.

Clients include - Rangers FC, Flutterwave, Verto, Oakbrook and many others.

Key Responsibilities

Product Strategy & Ownership

• Define and own the roadmap for Card Payments, aligned to the business strategic priorities.
• Serve as the subject matter expert for Card Payments, providing guidance across the business ensuring consistent, informed decision-making.
• Drive adoption of card payment solutions across key sectors, with a focus on recurring commerce.
• Shape and deliver card payments strategy, alongside our other offerings, focused on how cards are used across customer journeys to create business and merchant value.
• Anticipate market, scheme, and regulatory changes, ensuring the product stays competitive and compliant.
• Identify and deliver revenue growth opportunities through product initiatives.

Discovery & Design

• Lead product discovery and validation activities, ensuring initiatives are backed by data and customer insight.
• Collaborate with design and research teams to shape user-centred solutions.
• Analyse how cards are being used to uncover opportunities for product differentiation and growth.

Customer & Partner Engagement

• Work with acquirers, schemes, and partners to expand and enhance our card processing capabilities.
• Gather insights from merchants and industry stakeholders to inform product decisions.
• Represent at customer and partner meetings, building trust and thought leadership.

Performance & Optimisation

• Monitor Product KPIs to improve authorisation rates, transaction routing, and fraud/risk controls.
• Lead improvement initiatives across card features such as tokenisation, authentication, and digital wallets.
• Stay informed on card network initiatives and emerging payment features to enhance product performance and customer value.
• Use data and analytics to drive continuous product improvements and revenue optimisation.

🚀 Delivery & Execution

• Translate product strategy into clear requirements and priorities for the engineering team.
• Influence senior stakeholders by presenting product initiatives and data-driven recommendations, securing alignment and resources to maximise impact.
• Collaborate with Commercial, Operations, and Compliance to ensure smooth launches and adoption.
• Champion best practices in product delivery, ensuring features are shipped on time and deliver measurable business impact.

About You:

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally within payments, fintech, or card acquiring.
• Strong knowledge of card processing, authentication, and acquiring.
• Proven commercial acumen with the ability to connect product decisions to revenue growth and business performance.
• Experience delivering products in a regulated environment (PCI DSS, PSD2, SCA).
• Data-driven decision maker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to influence across teams and with external partners.
• A track record of delivering product improvements that drive measurable business and financial impact.
• Technical understanding and hands-on experience working with APIs, integration methods, and related product delivery challenges.
• Experience collaborating with design/research functions to create user-centred solutions.