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Senior Technical Product Manager

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About Payset

Payset is a regulated fintech company operating at the intersection of payments, FX, and multi-currency infrastructure. We serve businesses and financial institutions across global markets, enabling fast, compliant, and transparent money movement. Our core platform handles mission-critical payment flows — and we're looking for a Technical PM who can help us build and scale it.

About the role

We're hiring a Technical Product Manager to lead our core backend team. This is a hands-on, infrastructure-focused role for someone who has genuinely worked close to the metal in payments — not just managed around it. You'll own the product direction for the systems that move money: payment rails, settlement flows, FX, and the APIs and integrations that sit on top of them.

You'll be the bridge between engineering and the business — someone engineers trust to define the right problem, and stakeholders trust to communicate what's being built and why.

What you'll do

  • Own the roadmap for Payset's core payment infrastructure — defining priorities, trade-offs, and sequencing in collaboration with engineering leads.

  • Translate complex technical and regulatory requirements into clear, actionable product specs that engineering can build with confidence.

  • Drive delivery across the core backend team — from discovery and scoping through to release and iteration.

  • Work closely with compliance, risk, and legal to ensure new features and integrations meet regulatory standards across jurisdictions.

  • Own relationships with technical stakeholders: payment schemes, banking partners, and third-party infrastructure providers.

  • Define and track meaningful product metrics — system reliability, transaction success rates, processing latency, and business-level payment volumes.

  • Identify technical debt and infrastructure gaps that create product risk, and make the case for addressing them alongside new feature development.

What we're looking for

  • Payments depth, not just exposure — you've worked directly on payment rails, settlement flows, card issuing/acquiring, or SEPA/SWIFT integrations in a product capacity. You can explain how a payment moves end-to-end, what systems touch it, and what can go wrong.

  • Technical credibility — you can engage meaningfully with engineers on architecture decisions, challenge technical assumptions, and write specs that don't require translation. A background in engineering or a similarly technical field is a strong advantage.

  • Fintech regulatory awareness — practical familiarity with AML/KYC requirements, SEPA rules, PSD2, or equivalent frameworks. Enough to factor compliance into product decisions without needing to be guided by legal at every step.

  • Ownership mindset— you define the what and the why, not just coordinate the when. You've shaped product decisions, not just facilitated the process around them.

  • 6+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years in a fintech or payments infrastructure environment.

  • Strong communication skills in English — you can translate between engineering, business, and external partners clearly and confidently.

Strong advantages

  • Experience with crypto/blockchain payment infrastructure or digital asset platforms.

  • Hands-on familiarity with SEPA Instant, SWIFT GPI, or direct scheme connectivity.

  • Experience working in or with regulated EMIs, banks, or payment institutions.

  • Prior work with multi-currency accounts, FX products, or cross-border payment flows.

  • Startup or scale-up background — comfortable with ambiguity and fast-moving priorities.

What we offer

  • A senior role with real ownership — you'll shape the direction of our most critical infrastructure, not execute someone else's roadmap.

  • Direct collaboration with engineering leadership and the VP of R&D.

  • A fast-moving, international team operating across multiple markets and payment corridors.

  • Competitive compensation, flexible working arrangements, and room to grow as Payset scales.

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