Senior Payments Product Management Leader – End-to-End Payments (Hardware —> Apps —> Gateway —> Acquiring)

Job Summary:

Verifone is seeking a seasoned and strategic Product Management Leader to own and drive the vision, roadmap, and execution of our end-to-end payment solutions for the Nordics market. The solution entails working across the Verifone’s product stack including Payment devices, embedded and cloud-based payment applications, gateway services and acquirer integrations. This cross-functional role will shape how merchants deploy, manage, and scale unified commerce experiences using Verifone’s ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities:

Strategy & Roadmap

• Define and evolve the product and solution for the entire Verifone stack: hardware, software, payment gateway, and acquiring connectivity.

• Identify customer pain points and market opportunities across in-store, omnichannel, and eCommerce environments in the Nordics.

• Translate high-level business goals into product strategies, epics, and detailed feature roadmaps.

• Manage a team of product owners of individual product lines and drive the end to end product and solution vision.

• Build a deeper understanding of the customer and partner eco-system of Verifone in how they integrate and use Verifone’s products and services

Hardware & Software Integration

• Work with hardware teams to prioritize terminal form factors, certifications (PCI, EMV, EAA), and lifecycle upgrades.

• Work with the cross functional leads to influence development of payment application (e.g., semi-integrated, Android app frameworks, app marketplaces).
• Ensure device, OS, and application firmware support seamless deployment, monitoring, and enhancements.

Payment Gateway & Acquiring

• Own features needed from a differentiation and market/customer needs and manage its execution with the development teams.
• Manage gateway connectivity to multiple acquirers/processors, ensuring resiliency, failover support, and global coverage.
• Collaborate with acquiring and partner teams to launch new acquiring pathways and support alternative payment methods.

Cross-Functional Execution

• Partner with engineering, UX, sales, support, and operations to ensure timely and quality delivery.
• Serve as voice of the customer, balancing user needs with platform constraints and regulatory demands.
• Define KPIs (e.g., time to first transaction, success rates, latency, conversion) and monitor product health and adoption.

Partner and Customer Enablement

• Engage with ISVs, merchants, and strategic partners to gather feedback and influence roadmaps.

• Present product plans and updates to senior leadership, customers, and external stakeholders

• Understand the key enablement functions for customers and partners to integrate, board end merchants, automate the boarding, setup and management of the services

• Develop and streamline the processes and workflows for customers to easily board, activate devices with ease.

• Provide a way for developing appropriate billing, invoicing, and partner portal for supported commercial models for partners to do business with Verifone

Qualifications:

Required:

• 12+ years of experience in product management, preferably in payments or fintech.
• Demonstrated success managing complex, cross-functional products across hardware and software layers including card present and e-commerce gateway and card acquiring.
• Deep understanding of payment processing flows, device provisioning, POS applications, and gateway/acquirer protocols (e.g., ISO 8583, NEXO, FRv6).
• Familiarity with security and compliance standards (e.g., PCI PTS, P2PE, GDPR, ADA).

• Strong communication, prioritization, and stakeholder management skills.
• Financial, Commercial and go to market motions based on each customer segment and establish process for data driven decisions

Preferred:

• Experience with payment terminals (Verifone, Ingenico, Android POS) is a plus
• Experience with payment gateways is preferred.
• Experience working with merchant acquirers, PayFacs, or payment orchestration providers.
• Prior background in product lifecycle management (PLM) or hardware/software commercialization.

Why Verifone?

At Verifone, you’ll play a pivotal role in redefining the future of commerce by building a truly unified payment platform that merges hardware innovation, intelligent software, and global acquiring flexibility. If you’re excited about building platforms at scale and enabling real-world transactions across the globe, we want to hear from you.