Principal Product Manager

The role

• Define the product vision and strategy for your area of the payments platform, and contribute to wider business strategy
• Own the roadmap and lead complex delivery programmes from direction through to execution
• Identify and prioritise opportunities, balancing customer value and commercial return against feasibility and effort
• Build commercially sound propositions with a clear link to business performance
• Hold product teams to account by testing assumptions, estimates, scope and priorities so that commitments are realistic
• Give senior stakeholders an evidence based view of delivery health, risk and priorities
• Lead, coach and mentor product team members, and support hiring
• Contribute to the evolution of the product operating model alongside the product leadership team

What you will bring

• Senior product leadership experience gained directly within a payments, money movement or payments infrastructure business, such as Embedded finance, payment rails, banking as a service or a money movement platform
• Practical knowledge of how payments work, including payment flows, settlement and reconciliation, relevant regulation and the commercial drivers of a payments business
• Ownership of a product roadmap for a defined product area, with strong commercial awareness of how product decisions affect the P&L. Direct P&L ownership is a plus
• A track record of leading product teams and delivering complex programmes
• Confidence working with stakeholders up to C suite level
• The judgement to challenge proposals constructively and to test whether delivery plans are achievable
• Substantial experience coaching and developing product people
• The ability to get up to speed and add value quickly in a contract setting