Senior Product Manager, Payments & Finance

<h3>Accountabilities</h3><li>Own the Payments &amp; Finance product domain end to end, defining the product vision, strategy, roadmap, priorities, and success metrics in alignment with business objectives.</li><li>Manage the product systems supporting credit lines, financial exposure, risk management, and payment requirements across the accommodation business.</li><li>Develop scalable solutions that balance financial risk, commercial opportunities, customer needs, and sustainable business growth.</li><li>Collaborate closely with Engineering to design, test, and deliver technically complex financial products, ensuring reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.</li><li>Partner with Finance and Risk teams to understand financial processes, establish appropriate controls, and translate business requirements into effective product solutions.</li><li>Simplify complex payment flows, including virtual cards, client-specific charging rules, payment timing, and other partner-specific requirements.</li><li>Improve financial ledgers, workflows, and payment operations through automation, robust systems, and continuous optimization.</li><li>Define and monitor product performance indicators, financial outcomes, and business impact, using data and experimentation to guide decisions.</li><li>Make informed trade-offs between speed, scalability, financial exposure, and customer experience while maintaining accountability for results.</li><li>Contribute to building and maturing the product organization, establishing effective product practices and supporting the company's next phase of growth.</li><h2>Requirements</h2><li>Several years of experience as a Product Manager or in a comparable product leadership role, with demonstrated end-to-end ownership of a product, business domain, or complex initiative and measurable results.</li><li>Strong experience in fintech, payments, credit, financial infrastructure, or related domains, with a solid understanding of payment flows, credit management, financial exposure, ledgers, and risk.</li><li>Proven ability to translate complex financial and operational processes into clear product strategies, requirements, and scalable technical solutions.</li><li>Experience collaborating closely with Engineering teams on technically demanding products, with the ability to engage in architectural discussions and make informed product trade-offs.</li><li>Strong commercial and analytical skills, including the ability to assess financial implications, evaluate opportunities, manage risk, and make data-driven decisions.</li><li>Experience working cross-functionally with Finance, Risk, Engineering, and other stakeholders to align priorities and deliver business outcomes.</li><li>A proactive, hands-on mindset and the confidence to make decisions, run experiments, and take ownership in fast-paced environments with limited processes and ambiguous requirements.</li><li>Excellent problem-solving, communication, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to balance competing priorities and explain complex topics clearly.</li><li>A strong sense of accountability, adaptability, and resilience, combined with the willingness to investigate underlying business mechanics and take responsibility for results.</li><li>Experience in travel technology is welcome but not required; relevant fintech, payments, or credit expertise is considered more important.</li><li>Professional fluency in English and the ability to collaborate effectively with distributed, international teams.</li><h2>Benefits</h2><li>
<strong>Competitive compensation:</strong>Salary commensurate with experience, skills, and the scope of the role.</li><li>
<strong>Meaningful equity:</strong>Participate in the company's long-term growth and share in the value created as the business scales.</li><li>
<strong>Remote flexibility:</strong>Work remotely within Europe, with hybrid options available in selected European locations.</li><li>
<strong>High ownership and autonomy:</strong>Take responsibility for a major product domain, make meaningful decisions, and see ideas move quickly from concept to implementation.</li><li>
<strong>High-impact challenges:</strong>Solve complex financial infrastructure problems at the intersection of payments, credit, risk, and technology.</li><li>
<strong>Career development:</strong>Help shape a growing product organization and influence product strategy, processes, and ways of working.</li><li>
<strong>International collaboration:</strong>Work with talented colleagues and established global partners across technology, fintech, and travel.</li><li>
<strong>Entrepreneurial environment:</strong>Benefit from a fast-moving culture that values initiative, experimentation, pragmatic decision-making, and measurable outcomes.</li><li>
<strong>Growth opportunities:</strong>Contribute to an ambitious business scaling its platform, transaction volumes, and international reach.</li><li>
<strong>Innovation-driven culture:</strong>Work at the intersection of API infrastructure, financial technology, and emerging AI-powered travel experiences.</li>