Senior Product Manager - Payments (Emerging Markets)

This position is posted by Jobgether on behalf of a partner company. We are currently looking for a Senior Product Manager - Payments (Emerging Markets) in Switzerland.

This role sits at the core of global payment infrastructure within a fast-scaling fintech environment, focused on enabling seamless, secure, and efficient money movement across emerging and high-growth markets. You will own critical payment rails that power both fiat and digital transactions, directly shaping how users fund and withdraw from the platform. Working in a highly cross-functional setting, you will collaborate with engineering, compliance, fraud, and operations teams to design and optimize end-to-end payment experiences. Your work will have a direct impact on conversion rates, settlement efficiency, and overall user trust in financial flows. This is a highly strategic and execution-driven product role, combining deep payments expertise with a strong focus on user experience and global scalability. You will help define how modern financial infrastructure evolves across diverse international markets.

• Own and evolve a portfolio of payment rails across multiple methods and emerging geographic markets, ensuring scalability and performance.
• Lead end-to-end integration of payment partners, including processors, acquirers, and banking institutions, from selection to go-live.
• Optimize key payment metrics such as authorization rates, settlement speed, conversion, and transaction success across regions.
• Collaborate closely with compliance and fraud teams to ensure secure, compliant, and resilient payment flows.
• Improve user experience across payment journeys through experimentation, data analysis, and customer insights.
• Work with engineering teams on backend payment infrastructure, API integrations, and frontend payment experiences.
• Define product strategy and prioritization based on performance data and business impact.

Requirements:

• 5–7+ years of product management experience, ideally in payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure environments.
• Strong expertise in payment systems such as bank transfers, card networks, and alternative payment methods.
• Experience working with emerging market payment rails (e.g., UPI, IMPS, local schemes, or open banking frameworks) is highly desirable.
• Proven experience managing third-party payment providers and end-to-end API integrations.
• Strong understanding of both backend payment systems and user-facing product experiences.
• Data-driven mindset with the ability to define KPIs, measure impact, and guide product decisions.
• Strong collaboration skills across engineering, design, compliance, fraud, and operations teams.
• Excellent prioritization skills in fast-moving, complex, and multi-stakeholder environments.
• Experience in crypto, digital assets, or neobank ecosystems is a plus.

Benefits:

• Fully remote-first organization with global flexibility
• Competitive compensation aligned with experience and performance
• Opportunity to work on high-impact global payment infrastructure
• Exposure to fast-growing emerging markets and innovative financial systems
• Collaborative, international, and mission-driven work environment
• Strong emphasis on autonomy, ownership, and product impact
• Continuous learning culture with exposure to cutting-edge fintech and crypto innovation
• Inclusive and merit-based workplace with global talent diversity