Senior Product Manager - Banking Networks Global

This is the company

the company provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft - making us the financial technology platform of choice. At the company, everything we do is engineered for ambition.

For our teams, we create an environment with opportunities for our people to succeed, backed by the culture and support to ensure they are enabled to truly own their careers. We are motivated individuals who tackle unique technical challenges at scale and solve them as a team. Together, we deliver innovative and ethical solutions that help businesses achieve their ambitions faster.

the company is a truly global company that processes billions in payments annually. the company's value goes beyond Ecommerce and In-Person payments with a broad offering of embedded payments and financial services like issuing, bank accounts, and capital; facilitated by the company's global banking licenses. Behind every one of these products sits a critical dependency: reliable, direct connectivity to the world's banking infrastructure.

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead and scale our global Banking Networks capabilities.

You will lead the Banking Networks team responsible for integrating with banking partners worldwide, including banks, clearing houses, payment rails and providers (excluding North America, which is owned by a dedicated regional team). This role sits at the core of the company's financial products, owning the end-to-end processing of banking transactions across a wide variety of market infrastructures and use cases.

You will build and maintain best-in-class banking connectivity that our financial products depend on, from local scheme integrations to real-time payment rails.

You will work closely with Banking Products, Payouts, Payments, Merchant Finance, Accounting, Compliance, Legal, Risk, Commercial, and Operational teams, as well as customers, to understand their needs and translate them into product enhancements together with the development team.

• Define Long-Term Strategy: Define and own the long-term vision and strategy for the company's global banking network, grounded in customer value and measurable business impact.

• Translate Strategy into
  
  Roadmap:
  
  Translate market infrastructure opportunities and regulatory requirements into clear priorities, actionable roadmaps, and success metrics.

• Simplify Ambiguity: Simplify a complex, fragmented space of local schemes, clearing houses, and payment rails by defining clear, actionable integration and capability use cases alongside your engineering and commercial teams.

• Own Product Lifecycle: Lead the end-to-end product lifecycle for banking network integrations and the underlying banking capabilities.

• Act as Product Authority: Operate as the primary product authority for global banking networks across the company.

• Subject Matter Expertise: Serve as a subject matter expert on the company's core banking system, clearing and settlement flows, and the market infrastructures the company connects to.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner closely with Engineering, Compliance, Risk, Support, Sales, and Implementation teams to align our banking capabilities with evolving customer and regulatory needs.

• Coordinate with the North America and Foundational teams: Align on shared standards, tooling, and roadmap dependencies to ensure a consistent global banking product.

• Lead junior product managers in the team
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  Manage the focus and dedication (in functional matrix report) of the 2 PMs in the Banking Networks Global team.

• Scale Banking Connectivity: Design and scale reliable integrations across diverse banking partners and payment rails, with a focus on markets outside North America.

• Optimize System Performance: Collaborate with engineering to maximize the performance, reliability, and scalability of the company's core banking processing infrastructure.

• Engage with Customers: Interact directly with customers, commercial teams, and partners to understand their pain points, gather feedback, and translate their needs into core product requirements.

• Monitor & Iterate Performance: Monitor product metrics and identify continuous optimization opportunities to guarantee data accuracy, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.

• End-to-End Ownership: Take full ownership of specific initiatives from initial scoping through final delivery, managing timelines and stakeholder expectations.

• Experienced Product Leader: You have a minimum of 8 years of experience in product management or an adjacent function within a fintech or financial services environment focused on payments. You are customer centric and build for the benefit of all customers.

• Proven Record in Banking Infrastructure: You have experience launching and scaling transactional banking products and have in-depth experience…