Global Payments Product Lead
On-site, London (City)
Perm Role

Our client is a high growth challenger bank, who offer a fantastic opportunity to join their product team. Already enjoying success with multiple domestic payment solutions, we are now keen to expand our capabilities to international, global payments and FX, so we are keen to hire an international payments product SME to join the team. 

Key responsibilities will include:

• Develop and execute the product roadmap for International Payments, expanding from the Bank’s current domestic payment capabilities, in an agile and iterative manner.
• Effectively communicate and distil the roadmap into specific business requirements for both in-house and external engineering teams, while also managing capacity to ensure timely quality delivery.
• Serve as the product subject matter expert (SME) on international payments, covering SWIFT, correspondent banking, agency banking, FX, treasury, and cross-border settlement processes, providing deep expertise across the client journey.
• Work effectively with the Payment Operations team to develop and document end-to-end operational processes for international payments.
• Enhance and optimize the bank’s payments platform by improving the Client API and core payment engine, focusing on speed, reliability, scalability, and seamless global connectivity.
• Champion customer needs and use cases in a complex, rapidly evolving international payments landscape, ensuring the product meets the expectations of corporate, institutional, and fintech clients.
• Engage with global payment schemes, regulators, and industry bodies to design and implement compliant, cutting-edge international payments connectivity solutions within strict deadlines.
• Understanding industry trends to ensure the product capabilities and directions will ensure we establish and maintain leadership in the Payments segment.
• Act as a day-to-day contact for all international payment-related product queries, dealing with and escalating any issues to management in a timely manner

About you:

• Experience in a Financial Services, Payments or Banking environment.
• You have a deep and broad knowledge of the global payments industry, notably across the client journey for international payments (SWIFT, correspondent banking, agency banking, FX, treasury).
• You are able to convert a high-level roadmap into granular, actionable detail & work closely with our development & engineering team to deliver. 
• You keep your finger on the pulse of trends and regulatory changes in the Global Payments space such as Real Time Payments, New Payments Architecture (NPA) and Open Banking.
• Passionate about providing unparalleled levels of service and convenience for customers
• You have brilliant problem-solving skills and a high degree of independent initiative, with a sharper focus to drive delivery in an agile-based working environment.
• You are a positive self-starter with excellent communication skills, well-organised, you can establish strong working relationships with a wide variety of customers, peers and stakeholders in a fast-paced bank.