Lead Product Manager
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 own the strategy and end-to-end delivery of core banking payment products across India, the United Kingdom, and Europe. You will lead discovery, solution design, and agile delivery for payment rails, clearing, settlement, ledgers, safeguarding, reconciliation, APIs, and event-driven systems. You will work with senior stakeholders and specialists to ensure regulatory compliance, manage risks, optimize commercial performance, and use product metrics to improve payment experiences.
Requirements
- 8+ years of Product Management experience focused on core banking systems, payment rails, clearing and settlement infrastructure, or electronic money institutions.
- Strong technical understanding of SEPA, Faster Payments, UPI, SWIFT, and Open Banking and PSD2 frameworks.
- Understanding of API design, transaction logging, race conditions, and high-throughput core-system edge cases.
- Understanding of funds flow, ledger management, double-entry bookkeeping, and automated safeguarding and reconciliation.
- Knowledge of UK, EU, and global financial regulations, including FCA, PRA, EBA, AML, KYB, and transaction reporting requirements.
- Understanding of small-business financial friction points, including cash-flow management, payment acceptance, foreign exchange, and account reconciliation.
- Experience mentoring junior product managers, managing third-party banking providers and vendors, and aligning senior executive stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Develop and execute the product vision for banking payments, including local and international rails, multi-currency accounts, and local IBANs.
- Lead cross-functional agile teams through the product development lifecycle.
- Map transaction lifecycles, write technical specifications, and manage database isolation levels, event-driven architecture, and API design.
- Lead discovery and solution design for money-movement controls, clearing, settlement, financial ledgers, safeguarding, and reconciliation.
- Engage with banking and fintech ecosystem partners to identify payment opportunities.
- Collaborate with Risk, Compliance, and Legal teams to ensure regulatory compliance and mitigate fraud and transaction risks.
- Optimize payment revenue drivers and collaborate with Finance on quarterly forecasting.
- Define and track product KPIs and OKRs to drive continuous optimization.
Benefits
- Remote-first work
- 25 days of paid annual leave
- 3 additional days for volunteering and learning
- Private health insurance
- Mental health support platform
- FitPass
- Family and friendly leave according to statutory requirements
- Share options
