Senior Product Manager - Issuing Processing

<h3>Company Description</h3><p>Checkout.com is one of the most exciting fintechs in the world. Our mission is to enable businesses and their communities to thrive in the digital economy. We’re the strategic payments partner for some of the best known fast-moving brands globally such as Wise, Hut Group, Sony Electronics, Homebase, Henkel, Binance, Klarna and many others. Purpose-built with performance and scalability in mind, our flexible cloud-based payments platform helps global enterprises launch new products and create experiences customers love. And it's not just what we build that makes us different. It's how.</p><p>We empower passionate problem-solvers to collaborate, innovate and do their best work. That’s why we’re on the Forbes Cloud 100 list and a Great Place to Work accredited company. And we’re just getting started. We’re building diverse and inclusive teams around the world — because that’s how we create even better experiences for our merchants and our partners. And we need your help. Join us to build the digital economy of tomorrow.</p><h3>Job Description</h3><p><u><strong>The role</strong></u></p><p>Checkout.com is seeking a Senior Product Manager to join the Issuing team to help us build a scalable and reliable Issuing Processor. This role will lead the foundations of the long-term vision and strategy for the function. Our ambition is to change the world of payments and the team sits at the heart of achieving our high-reaching vision and goals.</p><p>Our team launched a product in Beta in EEA and in the UK and is looking for a payment professional that will bring the product to General Availability of the Issuing product.</p><p>The Processing domain is the core domain of our Issuing platform by enabling Checkout to process messages received from the payment networks (MasterCard and VISA decisions). Our mission is to increase the acceptance rate by processing millions of card payments end to end.</p><p>As a Senior Product Manager, you will drive cross-functional leadership between product, engineering and business teams, to bring value to internal and external stakeholders. Our team collaborates closely with them to understand their pain points, drive prioritisation for product development and unlock new financial capabilities.</p><p>Our team is responsible for Checkout’s issuing products leveraging proprietary technology. We build an outstanding card issuing solution to enable businesses to innovate, move money faster and more easily to generate new revenue streams. We are a strong distributed team of 40+ people</p><p><u><strong>How you’ll make an impact</strong></u></p><ul><li>Demonstrate cross-functional leadership across product, engineering, and business teams, and build a skilled product team that enables bring value to internal and external stakeholders.</li><li>Gain a deep understanding of our clients and prospects pain points, drive prioritization for product development and unlock new capabilities via API.</li><li>Develop product vision and product strategy to build a scalable and configurable processing platform that unlocks value</li><li>Maintain product roadmaps in collaboration with the other product and engineering leaders and ensure alignment with their roadmaps and deliver coherently across the company</li><li>Make sure to understand desired outcomes, elicit requirements, and then translate them into coherent functionalities that can be easily implemented for our innovative and groundbreaking products</li><li>Synthesize and articulate business insights to deliver required specifications and conduct feasibility studies by analyzing impacts.</li><li>Identify and resolve risk early and support your engineering, design, research, product marketing, and other colleagues in project delivery</li></ul><h3>Qualifications</h3><p><u><strong>What we’re looking for </strong></u></p><ul><li>5+ years of experience in Product Management, leading end-to-end product lifecycles from discovery to release</li><li>Experience working in payment Processing and/or in Issuing domain</li><li>Worked on developer products with a strong experience on back-end products and API development</li><li>Some experience in designing, implementing and optimizing a payment platform or a payment processing system would be great to have</li><li>End-to-end understanding of a transaction lifecycle and knowledge of Card Networks (e.g. MasterCard, Visa)</li><li>You think from the customer perspective and are able to balance future opportunities with immediate needs</li><li>Data-driven, you clearly define success metrics and measure progress against them</li></ul><h3>Additional Information</h3><p>We work as one team. Wherever you come from. However you identify. And whichever payment method you use.</p><p>Our clients come from all over the world — and so do we. Hiring hard-working people and giving them a community to thrive in is essential to our success.</p><p>When you join our team, we’ll empower you to unlock your pot