Company:
Space has partnered with a fast growing payment scale up who have just received a £4m injection of cash!
The business offer various payment solution - Payment Gateway, Open Banking Payments, Direct Debit, Real-time payments.
Key verticals include - Financial Services, Ecommerce, and Ticketing.
Clients include - Rangers FC, Flutterwave, Verto, Oakbrook and many others.
Key Responsibilities
Product Strategy & Ownership
* Define and own the roadmap for Card Payments, aligned to the business strategic priorities.
* Serve as the subject matter expert for Card Payments, providing guidance across the business ensuring consistent, informed decision-making.
* Drive adoption of card payment solutions across key sectors, with a focus on recurring commerce.
* Shape and deliver card payments strategy, alongside our other offerings, focused on how cards are used across customer journeys to create business and merchant value.
* Anticipate market, scheme, and regulatory changes, ensuring the product stays competitive and compliant.
* Identify and deliver revenue growth opportunities through product initiatives.
Discovery & Design
* Lead product discovery and validation activities, ensuring initiatives are backed by data and customer insight.
* Collaborate with design and research teams to shape user-centred solutions.
* Analyse how cards are being used to uncover opportunities for product differentiation and growth.
Customer & Partner Engagement
* Work with acquirers, schemes, and partners to expand and enhance our card processing capabilities.
* Gather insights from merchants and industry stakeholders to inform product decisions.
* Represent at customer and partner meetings, building trust and thought leadership.
Performance & Optimisation
* Monitor Product KPIs to improve authorisation rates, transaction routing, and fraud/risk controls.
* Lead improvement initiatives across card features such as tokenisation, authentication, and digital wallets.
* Stay informed on card network initiatives and emerging payment features to enhance product performance and customer value.
* Use data and analytics to drive continuous product improvements and revenue optimisation.
🚀 Delivery & Execution
* Translate product strategy into clear requirements and priorities for the engineering team.
* Influence senior stakeholders by presenting product initiatives and data-driven recommendations, securing alignment and resources to maximise impact.
* Collaborate with Commercial, Operations, and Compliance to ensure smooth launches and adoption.
* Champion best practices in product delivery, ensuring features are shipped on time and deliver measurable business impact.
About You:
* 5+ years of product management experience, ideally within payments, fintech, or card acquiring.
* Strong knowledge of card processing, authentication, and acquiring.
* Proven commercial acumen with the ability to connect product decisions to revenue growth and business performance.
* Experience delivering products in a regulated environment (PCI DSS, PSD2, SCA).
* Data-driven decision maker with strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
* Excellent stakeholder management skills, able to influence across teams and with external partners.
* A track record of delivering product improvements that drive measurable business and financial impact.
* Technical understanding and hands-on experience working with APIs, integration methods, and related product delivery challenges.
* Experience collaborating with design/research functions to create user-centred solutions.