Product Manager, Publisher Payments (f/m/d)

As Product Manager for Publisher Payments at Awin, you will oversee and enhance the global publisher payments experience, ensuring timely and accurate payments through preferred methods. Your role involves shaping seamless payment processes across various countries, currencies, and regulatory environments, balancing compliance, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction. Collaborating with cross-functional teams—including product, engineering, finance, support, operations, and compliance—you will define and implement solutions that add value for publishers, support business growth, and scale Awin's global payments capabilities.

Your key responsibilities will include evolving Awin's publisher payments experience to ensure accuracy and trustworthiness, defining and prioritizing product initiatives to improve the end-to-end payment process, and identifying payment-related challenges through data analysis, customer feedback, and market insights. You will drive the development of Awin's global payments capabilities, supporting diverse countries, currencies, payment methods, and regulatory requirements. Leading discovery activities to understand publisher needs, validating assumptions, and ensuring solutions address genuine customer problems will be essential. Additionally, you will use data and customer insights to prioritize opportunities, measure impact, and continuously enhance payment performance and user experience. Collaboration with stakeholders across product, engineering, finance, and operations will be crucial to align priorities and deliver improvements to the publisher payments experience. Partnering closely with Finance, Operations, Compliance, and Engineering teams, you will deliver payment solutions that balance customer experience, regulatory requirements, and operational efficiency.

To be successful in this role, you should have over three years of experience in product management, preferably within a SaaS environment. Proven experience in launching, scaling, and improving products that create value for both customers and the business is essential. A strong product mindset, with the ability to identify customer problems, define outcomes, and prioritize opportunities, is required. Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, enabling effective collaboration across business and technology teams, are necessary. An analytical and data-driven approach to problem-solving and decision-making is important, along with a customer-centric mindset focused on understanding user needs and improving experiences. A solid understanding of the full product lifecycle, from discovery to delivery and iteration, is expected. Familiarity with global payment methods, regulatory requirements, and compliance considerations across different markets is advantageous.

Awin offers a comprehensive benefits package, including a four-day Flexi-Week at full pay, allowing for a better work-life balance. The Flexi-Office scheme provides flexibility through hybrid or remote working options, fostering a culture of mutual trust and flexibility. Additional perks include a monthly allowance to cover work expenses, a remote working furniture package to set up a comfortable home office, and access to various health and wellbeing initiatives. Awin also offers an extensive training suite, Awin Academy, supporting your professional and personal growth. A peer-to-peer recognition program is in place to appreciate and reward colleagues.

Established in 2000, Awin is known for its dynamic, social, and inclusive culture. The company nurtures this culture through virtual social activities and emphasizes diversity and inclusion in its hiring practices. Awin's vision is to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem, welcoming all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. As part of the Axel Springer group, Awin offers a collaborative and innovative environment for its employees.