🚀 Be part of a movement to change the way Europe pays

In today’s digital world, payments often still feel outdated: random delays and confusing rules make it harder than it should be to pay and get paid. The European Payments Initiative (EPI) is here to change all that, forever.

With Wero, our digital wallet, we make sending and receiving money simple, seamless and secure across France, Belgium and Germany, with more countries and omnichannel solutions coming soon. Supported by 16 major banks and the two largest European acquirers, EPI is building a new, proudly European payment system: easy, instant and transparent, all for the greater good.


🔎 What's in it for you

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the newly created Payment Platform 2 team within our Central Services product group. You will shape and scale core payment platform capabilities, with a strong focus on fraud, that power all EPI payment use cases across Europe.

At EPI, we embrace a remote-first culture, enabling our teams to work remotely from the country they are based in, with in-person meetings at least once a quarter to foster collaboration and connection.


🐝 About the team

You will join the Central Services product group, responsible for designing and operating the foundational services that power all customer-facing payment experiences across EPI. This includes core platform capabilities such as payment flows orchestration, data models, wallet-related concepts, and transversal fraud services.

The team operates in a highly collaborative, agile and pan-European environment, working closely with engineering and key stakeholders to ensure scalability, resilience, and long-term platform coherence.

💥 Your impact

1 - Product Leadership, Strategy & Vision:

1.1 - Demonstrated ability to set and communicate a compelling product vision in line with company objectives.

• Define and manage an overarching strategic roadmap to enable successful commercial payments, including the key milestones, features, and product enhancements over time.

• Ability to prioritize features based on ROI, user needs, and market demand. Understanding of how product choices impact business metrics.

• Stay at the forefront of industry trends, competitor analysis, and user feedback through data-driven research to derive insights from data to optimize and develop the product performance

1.2 - Continuous direct report to the Head of Product of your product group about the current status of the product development cycle.

2 - Internal and external Collaboration:

• Lead product development in close collaboration with a dedicated team of engineers. Owning and driving the agile product development processes applying strong experience in agile methodologies.

• Collaborate with other product managers, developers, designers, and other teams to translate insights into actionable development tasks.

• Demonstrated ability to make trade-offs between technical constraints and product features, ensuring alignment between engineering and product vision.

• Effective collaboration with cross-functional teams such as marketing, sales, and customer support.

• Collaborate with EPI´s Member banks to align on the overarching strategic roadmap und future development possibilities

• Representation of EPI and it interests towards internal and external EPI stakeholders
  

🕵🏻‍♀️ To succeed, you should meet at least 70% of these requirements

Hard skills

• Senior-level experience in Product Management, ideally within fintech or payments

• Strong understanding of payment fundamentals (four-corner model, authorization, clearing, settlement)

• Foundational knowledge of fraud prevention concepts and fraud-scoring mechanisms

• Experience working on backend-driven platforms, APIs, or high-availability systems

Soft skills

• Proven ability to extract real needs from stakeholders and structure them into actionable product initiatives

• Strong collaboration skills with engineering teams in Agile environments

• Ability to operate in complex, multi-stakeholder environments (including banks)

• Excellent communication and presentation skills in English
  

🪜 If this looks like you, the recruitment steps are:

1. A first call with one of our recruiters

2. An interview focused on your Product Skills

3. An interview focused on your Tech Skills

4. An interview focused on our company skills with the Hiring Manager

5. Hopefully, an offer you can’t refuse
   
   

🫶 Our commitment to equal employment opportunities

EPI offers the same job opportunities to all, without distinction of gender, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, social status, disability or age. EPI promotes the development of an inclusive work environment that mirrors the diversity of the clients our product is serving.