Senior Product Manager - Transaction Processing

At PPRO, our mission is to simplify access to local payment methods and our vision is to enable the sale of goods and services to anyone in the world using their preferred way to pay. We empower partners such as Ant Group, PayPal and Stripe to access new markets, connect with more customers, and accelerate their growth.

Our strength lies in our diverse global team with 50+ nationalities and 10+ international locations- all united around one goal – to deliver the best possible products and services to our partners and customers. While our company mission is to keep innovating global commerce, our internal mission is to #chooseaction, #beopen, #thinkcustomer, #gofurther and #wintogether

The Purpose:

As a Senior Product Manager in PPRO’s Transaction Processing Domain, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the payment experiences for our customers and partners, ensuring seamless, compliant, and efficient access to local payment methods & card payments. You will drive strategic product discovery and delivery, working at the intersection of Technology & Commercial teams to enable seamless adoption of various payment methods to some of the world’s leading fintechs, PSPs, and merchants.

Product Managers at PPRO have the passion and abilities for ensuring that we focus our time and energy on building the right things for our customers. You will set direction, communicate with all relevant stakeholders and lead effective product discoveries with your team & own the end outcomes with the deliveries. Our mission is to make local payment methods as ubiquitous and accessible as credit cards.

• Own the Core: Drive the end-to-end lifecycle of PPRO’s transaction processing API engine, transforming complex market specific payment requirements into scalable, global product solutions.
• Navigate the Narrow: Solve high-stakes technical and logic problems—from optimizing API performance to navigating intricate scheme rules—that ensure seamless money movement & merchant experience.
• Bridge the Gap: Act as the strategic link between commercial goals and technical execution, translating market demands into clear, actionable engineering roadmaps.
• Scale for Performance: Use a data-first approach to identify and eliminate friction in the payment flow, directly impacting authorization rates and platform reliability.
• Stakeholder Orchestration: Lead cross-functional alignment across Engineering, Commercial & Account Management functions to deliver robust features in a highly regulated landscape.

• Highly available & reliable payment processing platform with close to no downtimes & manual interventions for payment flows.
• Seamless integration and expansion for PPRO’s customers globally and features into the core PPRO platform, replacing legacy integration methods.
• Clear, data-driven insights into payment performance (acceptance rates, authorization rates, scheme metrics, uptime, latency), with real-time visibility for internal stakeholders.

• Fintech & Payments Mastery: You possess extensive experience of Product Management, with a heavy emphasis on the fintech domain. You understand the lifecycle of a payment transaction, from checkout to settlement, and have navigated the complexities of card schemes, local payment methods (LPMs), or core banking infrastructure.

• Navigating Complex API Platforms: You have a proven ability to dive into complex technical problems—such as Platform Architecture, Scalability & API Design—and solve them without losing sight of the broader commercial strategy as a Global Product.

• Proven Technical Fluency: You have proven experience of working closely with Engineering teams, allowing you to bridge the gap between business requirements and technical feasibility effectively. You have spent 70% of time with Engineering counterparts.

• End-to-End Ownership: You have a track record of taking complex, high-stakes products from discovery through to delivery. You are equally comfortable writing detailed technical specifications as you are presenting a long-term roadmap to executive stakeholders.

• Analytical Rigor: You are fluent in using data (ex: BigQuery, Looker) & observability tools (ex: DataDog, Grafana etc). You know how to define success metrics for backend API systems (like latency, uptime etc.) and use data to identify key improvements that lead to massive scale.

What's in it for you?

Hybrid working - We offer a hybrid structure with a 3 days / week on site expectation, so you can strike the balance between office and home working. In addition to our 30-day holiday allowance, we also provide a work from abroad policy, enabling employees to work remotely for up to another 30 days per year.

Learning and Development - We offer a €1,000 annual budget to support your professional growth—because investing in your development benefits us all. In addition, we provide leadership cafés, on-the-job training, and other opportunities to help you grow your skills and thrive in your role.

Insurance - Because better safe than sorry - we want our employees to benefit from various insurances including accident insurance, disability insurance, direct insurance (bAV) and travel insurance.

Gym membership - PPRO helps contribute towards the costs of your gym membership, supporting your physical fitness journey while easing the burden on your wallet

Enhance Family Leave - We understand the importance of family - that's why we offer enhanced family leave to support you during key life moments.

Mental Health Platform - We’ve teamed up with a top well-being platform to provide one-on-one therapy, chat therapy, therapist-led courses, guided meditations, and more.

Pet-friendly office - Because work is better with your paw-tners by your side

Our Principles:

We get things done: We are courageous; we take ownership, make decisions and get things done.

We act with trust and integrity: We listen first and challenge respectfully. We seek out and leverage diverse perspectives. We welcome and offer honest and open feedback, always assuming positive intent

We put the customer first: We are laser focused on delivering outstanding outcomes for our customers. We put the customer at the heart of what we do.

We make things better: We boldly explore new ideas and have an unwavering commitment to continuous improvement.

We work as a team: We collaborate closely and value team success over individual achievement.