Group Product Manager - Financial Services
Role Overview
Leads Wave/SMB payments capabilities and broader financial-services experiences that help small businesses move, manage, and trust their money.
Leads Product Managers across payments acceptance and processing, platform modernization, risk and fraud mitigation, and future financial-services capabilities.
Balances platform stability, compliance, reliability, and customer trust with the long-term vision for an integrated small-business experience.
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Role overview
Leads Wave/SMB payments capabilities and broader financial-services experiences that help small businesses move, manage, and trust their money.
Leads Product Managers across payments acceptance and processing, platform modernization, risk and fraud mitigation, and future financial-services capabilities.
Balances platform stability, compliance, reliability, and customer trust with the long-term vision for an integrated small-business experience.
Product strategy and delivery
- Define and own the Financial Services product vision and strategy for the small-business product suite.
- Lead payments infrastructure modernization, reduce fraud exposure, resolve reliability gaps, and build customer trust.
- Own uptime, reliability, and observability commitments for payments products and partner with Engineering and Data teams on stability SLAs.
- Partner with Fraud/Risk Operations, Compliance, and Security on onboarding, underwriting, and fraud mitigation.
- Integrate payments and financial-services workflows with Accounting and Tax products for an end-to-end small-business experience.
Business and team leadership
- Align stakeholders across Engineering, Design, Customer Success, Finance, Risk/Fraud Operations, Compliance, Security, and Marketing.
- Build business cases, assess financial impacts, define customer and business benefit OKRs, and use data to prioritize and measure product outcomes.
- Identify AI opportunities in productivity, fraud detection, risk decisioning, operations, and customer experience.
- Coach Product Managers, raise product-thinking quality, and foster cross-functional collaboration.
- Drive operational excellence through retrospectives, coaching, and ongoing refinement of team processes.
Experience and expertise
- 8+ years of product-management experience, at least 5 years in fintech, and 2+ years leading product teams at Group level or above.
- Deep financial-services expertise, ideally including payments acquiring, acceptance, payment facilitation, fraud and risk controls, and processor or platform partnerships.
- In-depth knowledge of financial-product onboarding, including KYC and KYB, and risk and fraud mitigation.
- Experience with payment processor or platform partnerships and migrations at scale is a strong plus.
- Proven record leading product teams and taking new fintech products from ideation through launch and scale.
- Able to work within compliance, regulatory, and audit constraints while balancing customer and business outcomes.
- Demonstrated judgment on high-leverage AI opportunities for productivity, risk and fraud decisioning, or customer experience.
Working approach
The role is a coach-player leadership position, combining senior stakeholder engagement with attention to operational and technical details.
The description begins with a flexible statement that people can do their jobs in different ways; no specific remote, hybrid, or onsite policy is stated.
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