Head of Product (Central Europe)

Quick Facts

• Senior product leadership role for SMB solutions across Central Europe
• Accountable for defining and delivering product strategy through Joint Venture partnerships

Description

Define and lead the Central Europe SMB solutions strategy across Joint Venture partnerships, turning customer needs, market insights, competitive trends, and platform opportunities into a 3–5 year product vision. Establish governance with Global Payments and JV partners, own the roadmap and prioritization process, and ensure initiatives deliver measurable business impact across revenue growth, market expansion, and efficiency. Influence cross-functionally and across a complex partner ecosystem to align stakeholders around funded roadmaps and sustainable commercial outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Translate customer and market inputs into a 3–5 year product vision for Central Europe SMB growth
• Create and drive governance frameworks for priorities, investment decisions, roadmap execution, funding models, and business outcomes
• Own roadmap and prioritization, balancing strategy, commercial impact, customer value, technology capacity, and partner requirements
• Align product, technology, commercial, and executive stakeholders; manage dependencies and competing priorities in a matrix environment
• Measure and connect delivery outcomes to revenue, expansion, customer success, operational efficiency, and long-term value creation

Requirements

• 15+ years of end-to-end product leadership (strategy, development, lifecycle management) in payments/fintech/banking/software platforms/commerce technology or similarly complex industries
• Proven track record translating market opportunities into scalable products
• Ability to lead through influence across complex, matrixed, multi-entity environments
• Extensive experience in product governance, roadmap prioritization, and portfolio management with cross-functional dependencies and investment trade-offs
• Strong commercial acumen and partnership leadership, including business cases and portfolio performance tied to revenue outcomes
• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder management with a people-first, high-accountability mindset

Bonus

• Experience with Joint Ventures, strategic partnerships, or other multi-entity governance and funding models
• Knowledge of payments ecosystems and SMB-focused solutions
• Experience operating across multiple countries and markets
• Familiarity with API-first platforms, target architecture models, platform modernization, and scalable delivery approaches