Senior Payments Product Manager

**About**:
Swan, a European fintech company, is the easiest way to embed banking features into your product. This can be called “Banking-as-a-Service” or “Embedded banking”. We built Swan so that anyone can start embedding banking features within just minutes of visiting our website. Swan is truly fast and easy to use.

Swan already has 100+ customers across 10+ European countries, large enterprise and startups alike. They include Carrefour, Factorial, Alma, Pennylane and Agicap. We’re on track to take things much, much further, by expanding on Europe — localizing our product, and internationalizing our team and partner portfolio.

Swan has received 58M€ funding from VCs like Lakestar, Accel, and Creandum. We’re a Mastercard principal member and a licensed financial institution, passported across Europe.

With 200+ Swanees across offices in Paris, Bordeaux, Berlin, Barcelona and Amsterdam Wherever you’re coming from, come as you are We’re open to all kinds of people, from all walks of life. If you’re excited about joining a European fintech adventure, Swan is the way

**To learn more about us**:About Swan** ; **Our story**.

***Job description**:
Swan is looking for a Payment Product Manager to join its Product team based in Paris.

The Payment Product team at Swan leverages industry knowledge and payments expertise to build the banking platform that fuels money movement for all Swan products.

As a key member of Swan's Payment Product team, you participate in the construction, optimization, and management of the company's banking platform, incl. payment methods & rails, financial partnerships, and payment operations-related processes & tools.

You are accountable for building the right products, holding our product quality bar to the highest level, while increasing STP (Straight-Through-Processing) rate and maintaining operational risk at the lowest possible level. You help integrate banking complexity while keeping it simple for Swan's partners and end-users.

**Your responsibilities include**:

- Work closely with our partners, engineers, product managers, and designers to build and roll-out our payment products/features and rails: new payment methods (partner APIs, integration with external financial providers, etc.), new payment features (Just-In-Time Funding, etc.), new banking communication channels, cash centralization/working capital-related infrastructure and processes, internal back-office tools & processes
- Help set an ambitious roadmap for payment-related product/features

**Preferred experience**:
**You’re a great match if**:

- 5+ years experience in Product Management, managing end-to-end Product lifecycles from discovery to release, or relevant experience in an operations/technical account manager role in the Fintech/neo-banking industry
- Knowledge of the payments industry is a plus
- Tech-savvy, with a passion for everything Tech and Product
- Strong interpersonal skills, excellent team player within an international environment, and fun to work with
- Flexibility with changing requirements in an evolving and fast-paced environment
- Fluent in English
- Our ideal teammate: Empathetic. Skilled. Frank. We love to challenge each other, and we leave our egos at the door.

It’s okay if you don’t tick all the boxes — don’t let imposter syndrome prevent you from applying
- Swan is committed to providing a caring work environment for all employees, regardless of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief._
- When it comes to recruitment, we’re interested in your work experience, skills, and overall personality. Because diversity makes the workplace stronger and is necessary for Swan’s success, we are intensifying efforts to incorporate concrete actions to help us improve in this area._

**About Swan**:
**Perks of being a Swanee**:

- ESOP packages available
- Possibility to work 2 days per week from home. Please be aware that for this role, we're seeking someone who can spend a minimum of 3 days per week in our Parisian office.
- The best health insurance: Alan
- Swan encourages you to have fun staying fit, thanks to partnerships with Classpass & Gymlib.
- We respect your lunch break. Mid-day free-time is sacred and our French office even provides a Swile card to cover your meal on work days.
- Twice a year we go somewhere gorgeous (a chateau, a mountain) where we reconnect, deep-dive into big topics, and relax.
- This isn’t a perk, it should be the rule, but diversity and inclusion are important at Swan. We’re working hard to get better every day.

**Our values**:
Swan’s core values guide our actions daily. Individually, they may seem obvious, but together, they form a unique culture.

**Simplicity**: Leonardo Da Vinci said: “simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.” If something's convoluted or confusing, we work extra hard to break it down. - Making complex things simple is what we do.

**Long Term**: We always play