Head of Product - Infrastructure – Remote-First

🚀 Be part of a movement to change the way Europe pays

In today’s digital world, payments often still feel outdated: random delays and confusing rules make it harder than it should be to pay and get paid. The European Payments Initiative (EPI) is here to change all that, forever.

With Wero, our digital wallet, we make sending and receiving money simple, seamless and secure across France, Belgium and Germany, with more countries and omnichannel solutions coming soon. Supported by 14 major banks and the two largest European acquirers, EPI is building a new, proudly European payment system: easy, instant and transparent, all for the greater good.

🔎 What's in it for you

As the Head of Product - Infrastructure, you will have the unique opportunity to shape the backbone of our cutting-edge payment solutions. You will be at the forefront of designing and implementing robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure that powers our innovative payment products.

Together, we’re creating a resilient and efficient European payment ecosystem that supports millions of transactions seamlessly across Europe.

At EPI, we embrace a remote-first culture, enabling our teams to work remotely from the country they are based in, with in-person meetings at least once a quarter to foster collaboration and connection.

🐝 About the team

You will be part of a Pan-European Product and Engineering team that operates in an Agile environment. You’ll work closely — and fully remotely — with experts in Product Management, Product Design, Web Dev, Mobile Dev, Backend Dev, QA and DevOps from Germany, France, the Netherlands, and other European locations.

You will report directly to the CPTO and be responsible for our SRE team, as well as our Data and Security teams.

💥 Your impact

Product Leadership, Strategy & Vision

• Define and manage an overarching strategic roadmap for the Infrastructure product group, including the key milestones, features, and product enhancements over time.
• Prioritize features based on ROI and user needs.
• Stay at the forefront of industry trends, competitor analysis, and stakeholder feedback through data-driven research to derive insights from data to optimize and develop the product performance.
• Provide regular and transparent updates and reporting on costs and forecasts to stakeholders.
• Identify and implement optimisations to ensure predictable infrastructure costs, based on forecasts and volumes.

Internal & External Collaboration

• Collaborate with product managers, developers, and other teams to translate insights into actionable development tasks.
• Collaborate with EPI's stakeholders to align on the overarching strategic roadmap and future development possibilities.
• Represent EPI and the interests of the Infrastructure product group towards internal and external stakeholders.

Management

• Foster growth and development of all product managers within the Infrastructure product group, providing personalised mentoring.
• Empower product managers to achieve high performance and goals, while designing and implementing a performance assessment framework to enhance their effectiveness.
• Oversee the time management and prioritizations within the product teams of the Infrastructure product group and support them if needed.

💻 Technology stack

Kotlin, Ktor, MongoDB, OpenAPI, Docker
AWS, k8s, Terraform, Datadog, Github actions
Event Sourcing, technical audits, monitoring, alerting, security

🕵🏻‍♀️ To succeed, you should meet at least 70% of these requirements

• At least 10 years' experience in product management, ideally in a fintech, in the payment or e-commerce industry, coming from an engineering background.
• Strong leadership experience, setting and communicating a compelling product vision in line with company objectives, helping product managers come together and ensuring alignment with technical teams.
• Experience in designing and managing scalable, high-performance and secure infrastructure and platform products.
• Knowledge of DevOps/DevSecOps practices and understanding of automation and CI/CD, especially in a highly-regulated environment, managing sensitive data.
• Outstanding communication and presentations skills to effectively convey information to a diverse audi