Lead Product Manager Banking Payments
Speedinvest is a European venture capital firm that invests from seed to growth stage (Series B to pre-IPO), backing founders with sector-specific expertise and a large network of operational support. It leads the majority of its initial investments and continues to support portfolio companies through multiple follow-on rounds as they scale.
About Speedinvest
Speedinvest is a pan-European venture capital investor with specialist investment teams organized around core sectors including AI & Infra, Climate Tech & Industrial Tech, Deep Tech, Fintech & DeFi, Health & Bio, and Marketplaces & Consumer, alongside a dedicated Growth team writing checks from Series B to pre-IPO. The firm emphasizes leading with conviction and long-term capital from day one, leading 85% of its initial investments, participating in 100+ follow-on rounds each year, and backing 70+ Series A companies over the past four years. Speedinvest works with startup founders across Europe and beyond, providing not just capital but network access and growth support, and counts companies like Bitpanda, Moove, cylib, Tide, Gigs, Upvest, and GoStudent among its portfolio.
Skills
About the Role
You will define and execute the product vision for global banking payments, including payment rails, multi-currency accounts, and local IBANs. You will lead technical delivery across the product lifecycle, design money-movement controls and ledger infrastructure, and ensure regulatory compliance. You will use product data to optimize payment features and commercial outcomes.
Requirements
- 8+ years of product management experience focused on core banking systems, payment rails, clearing and settlement infrastructure, or electronic money institutions.
- Technical understanding of SEPA, Faster Payments, UPI, SWIFT, Open Banking, and PSD2.
- Knowledge of API design, transaction logging, race conditions, and high-throughput core systems.
- Understanding of funds flow, ledger management, double-entry bookkeeping, safeguarding, and reconciliation.
- Knowledge of FCA, PRA, EBA, AML, KYB, and transaction reporting requirements.
- Understanding of small-business financial needs, including cash-flow management, payment acceptance, foreign exchange, and account reconciliation.
- Experience mentoring junior product managers, managing banking providers or vendors, and aligning executive stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the end-to-end product vision for banking payments.
- Lead cross-functional agile teams through the product development lifecycle.
- Map transaction lifecycles and write technical specifications.
- Lead discovery and solution design for money-movement controls, clearing, settlement, ledgers, and reconciliation.
- Engage with banking and fintech ecosystem partners to identify payment opportunities.
- Ensure payment features comply with regulatory guidelines and mitigate fraud and transaction risks.
- Optimize payment revenue drivers and collaborate on quarterly forecasting.
- Define and track product KPIs and OKRs.
Benefits
- MELP flexible benefits app with a monthly allowance of 50 EUR.
- 25 days of paid annual leave.
- Three paid days off for volunteering or learning and development activities.
- Parental leave.
- Family-friendly leave.
- Annual learning and development budget of 500 EUR.
- Mental wellbeing platform Plumm.
- Work-from-home equipment allowance.
- Sabbatical leave.
- Share options.
- Team events.
- Flexible workplace model supporting remote and in-person work.
