Product Manager - Financial Services

<p>Mollie was founded in 2004 in Amsterdam. Since then, Mollie has grown exponentially to become a trusted payment service provider for over 200,000 businesses. However, this is just the beginning.</p><p>We feel that banking has been set up against us for too long. From overdraft fees to payment processing, banking products are confusing, stressful, and frankly—boring.</p><p>In contrast, Mollie was founded to change the status quo, aiming to provide a new generation of financial products designed to work entirely for our customers. A product-first approach that our customers can truly benefit from.</p><p>We share a sweet tooth and a high bar for building a product that our customers will love. Our strong maker culture is balanced by cross-functional teams and a focus on fast-paced product cycles.</p><p></p><p><strong>Your opportunity:</strong></p><p>As part of this role, you will be a key enabler of our mission to help merchants with effortless money management. You will be responsible for a portfolio of products that are key to our strategy, namely: <strong>Mollie Credit Services </strong>and<strong> Mollie Invoicing &amp; Payment Links</strong>, while pursuing a strong synergy among these products. Collectively, they empower merchants to efficiently collect revenue while offering financing options to anticipate receivables, so that merchants can invest in their businesses and unlock growth opportunities.</p><p></p><ul><li><p>Mollie Credit Services team has launched <a href="https://www.mollie.com/gb/products/capital" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><u>Mollie Capital</u></a>, a product providing merchants with fast, flexible funding to better control their cash flow and power growth. This is the first of various products aimed to help our customers with their liquidity needs.</p></li><li><p><a href="https://www.mollie.com/gb/products/invoicing" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><u>Mollie Invoicing</u></a> and <a href="https://www.mollie.com/gb/products/payment-links" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" target="_blank"><u>Payment Links</u></a> allows merchants to sell from any channel - manage their receivables, collect payments, and save precious hours by automating workflows. </p><p></p></li></ul><p><strong>What you'll be doing:</strong></p><ul><li><p>Needles to say: <strong>Talk to customers</strong>, throughout the entire product life cycle. And be able to quickly steer and ship products based on insights.</p></li><li><p>Drive the <strong>vision</strong> and <strong>execution</strong> for Mollie Credit Services and Invoicing products.</p></li><li><p>Develop thought leadership in these areas, through customer, industry and partner outreach. </p></li><li><p>Lead an entrepreneurial cross-functional team with a strong focus in Engineering, bringing structure and planning. We don't dictate any "framework", we focus on output. </p></li><li><p>Articulate well in writing and verbally your strategy, roadmap, the performance of your portfolio, the key performance drivers, and your action plan to steer it. You will have exposure to different colleagues, and need to adapt your style towards the audience (e.g. executive level, engineering, marketing, compliance, …)</p></li><li><p>Be entrepreneurial, be a role model, and contribute to the development of the broader product management craft at Mollie.</p></li></ul><p></p><p><strong>What you'll bring</strong></p><p>First we don't believe that having x years of experience here or there is a benchmark for your potential performance. Your application is your pitch. Pitch how you have the right expertise &amp; drive to make this happen. And we will pitch Mollie to you - and the value we can add to your career. Having said that, there are few dimensions we consider relevant and we will discuss during the process:</p><ul><li><p><strong>Be creative</strong>. Be resourceful. Smart, ingenious ideas are the ones with the best ROI.</p></li><li><p>Have strong business and data acumen, customer empathy, and developed "sensing mechanisms" that you use when formulating your ideas. Some people may call it "product intuition or sense"</p></li><li><p>Proven ability to <u>set</u> a product direction and <u>execute</u> on this direction with excellence.</p></li><li><p>You also demonstrate creativity on how you approach go-to-market / product marketing. </p></li><li><p>You use data not only to understand performance, but to steer decisions and drive performance. </p></li><li><p>You think through different levels: Every detail matters. Every word matters. Every UX element matters. We don't make any concessions in the user experience. </p></li><li><p>You excel in collaboration with engineering, design, data, operations, and commercial teams.</p></li><li><p>Ability to work with 3rd party partners / vendors and build strong professional relationships with them, in the process of product co-creation.</p></li><li><p>Expertise is certainly helpful, and this is a