Senior Product Manager - Domestic Card Schemes

The role

You will shape how merchants get paid across EMEA by managing domestic card schemes. You will define the vision and roadmap for these schemes and lead strategic, cross-payment-method topics.

What you will do

• Define the vision and roadmap for domestic card schemes and the wider payment method portfolio.
• Manage roadmap alignment, specification updates and escalations with scheme operators and partners.
• Write product requirements and work with engineering on connections, tokenisation, Tap to Pay and authentication flows.
• Deliver time-critical launches with a clear plan, owners and risk log.
• Take the lead on strategic, cross-payment-method topics from idea to launch.
• Work with sales, account management and pricing on how local schemes compare with global ones.
• Define and regularly review success metrics such as authorisation rate, cost and adoption.
• Align engineering, in-person payments, e-commerce payments, partner engineering, partnerships and operations.

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience in payments or fintech.
• Strong understanding of card processing and how schemes, acquirers, hosts and terminals fit together.
• Ability to read API and message specifications (ISO 8583 or similar).
• Ability to discuss architecture with engineers and judge effort and risk.
• Strategic thinking to turn open-ended questions into a clear direction and roadmap.
• Strong stakeholder skills with external partners and schemes.
• Commercial and data-driven mindset.
• Proven ability to lead through influence across workstreams, markets and time zones.
• Clear written communication, including product requirement documents.

About the company

Adyen provides payments, data, and financial products in a single solution for customers like Meta, Uber, H&M, and Microsoft. They are a financial technology platform.