Product Manager (Payments experience)

Visaitalia; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - GBP 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A global payments solutions provider is looking for an experienced Product Manager based in London to drive the product lifecycle and enhance user experience. You will collaborate with the Senior Product Manager and agile teams, prioritize features based on business objectives, and ensure effective communication across teams. The ideal candidate has a minimum of 2 years in the payments industry, with expertise in SWIFT Payments and ISO 20022 standards. This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in the London office.

Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years’ experience as a Product Manager in the payments industry.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of cross-border payments and payment regulations.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills to bridge business and technical teams.

Responsibilities

• Drive end-to-end product lifecycle from feature creation through launch.
• Work with teams to understand and translate business objectives.
• Prioritize team backlog to align with business goals.

Skills

SWIFT Payments

ISO 20022 standards

Analytical mindset

Jira experience

User-centric approach

Tools

Jira Align

Job description

TheProduct teamare responsible for creating and building a world class cross-border payments solution, supporting a portfolio of products and adding delivering value to customers.

As aProduct Manageryou will work closely with the Senior Product Manager and Agile Team to deliver the functionality and associated user experience of the product, from definition to implementation, through to optimization.

You will take the high level priorities from the Senior Product Manager and internal/external stakeholders and prioritize them to deliver features that enhance clients’ experience and deliver business value

You will ensure that prioritization is carried through to delivery, working with the agile teams to identify dependencies and blockers to ensure that decisions made align with the product vision and deliver business value

You will translate the business objectives into clearly articulated features, ensuring that the business objectives are understood by all teams at every stage of the development.

What we expect of you, day to day.

This role will report to theSeniorProduct Managerand be responsible for turning the product vision, strategy and design into reality. This role requires an experienced Product Manager with deep payments experience, preferably with prior experience in one of the following:

Hands-on expertise withSWIFT Payments, including understanding of MX message types (pacs.008, pacs.002, etc.).

Strong knowledge ofISO20022 standardsand their application in payment systems.

Familiarity withpayment related message transformation and file-based payment instruction frameworks, such as batch file formats used for initiating and processing payments.

The ideal candidate will need to have the ability to deliver:

Drive end-to-end product lifecycle, from feature creation through launch and growth

Work with Senior Product Manager and Internal/External stakeholders to understand and translate business objectives, priorities and requirements

Work cross functionally with multiple teams across the organization to ensure alignment and address dependencies

Decompose of epics into features to drive product improvement and enhancements

Prioritize team backlog, ensuring it aligns with business objectives

Ensure features are clearly written and understood by the Persistent (Agile) team

Attend and participate in Agile team ceremonies

SME in Your Functional Area

Become the Subject Matter Expert for your functional area, acting as main point of contact for any questions from internal/external stakeholders

Support end-to-end development of product features from discovery through launch

Support training, documentation and implementation activities for Product Features

This is a hybrid position based in London Paddington office. This requires 3 days per week (Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays) attendance in the London office.

Basic Qualifications

• Minimum 2 years’ experience as a Product Manager in the payments industry

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with SWIFT payments, ISO 20022 standards or file-based payment instruction frameworks
• Strong analytical mindset and successful track record of working with cross-functional teams
• Self-starter, with ability to work independently, prioritize workload to meet deadlines and works well under pressure
• Results orientated mindset with commitment to achieving goals, overcoming obstacles, and integrating changes into work processes
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of cross border payments, payment standards, payment processing technologies and regulations
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with the ability to bridge the gap between business and technical teams
• Great attention to detail
• Open to feedback, able to deal with ambiguity and juggle multiple projects
• Working experience in using Jira, and Jira Align
• User centric approach with experience delivering product features
• Ability to build and maintain strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders at varying levels of seniority using a collaborative approach

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.