Technical Product Manager

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Technical Product Manager based in Germany.

We are seeking a highly technical and execution-focused Technical Product Manager to lead the strategy, development, and operational excellence of critical risk and trust infrastructure.

This role sits at the intersection of product leadership, engineering, and business impact, driving solutions that protect transactions and secure sensitive payment data at global scale.

You will own the roadmap for complex platform capabilities, including fraud prevention, card vaulting, account updates, and portfolio migration.

As a key leader within a cross-functional environment, you will guide teams toward building resilient, scalable, and secure systems.

The role requires a strong balance of product vision, technical depth, and operational ownership to deliver bank-grade infrastructure.

You will help shape the future of autonomous, AI-driven commerce by enabling safer, smarter, and more efficient payment experiences worldwide.

Accountabilities

• Own the end-to-end product vision, strategy, roadmap, and execution for risk, trust, and payment security capabilities, translating business objectives into scalable technical solutions.
• Act as the primary driver for platform initiatives, defining requirements, APIs, event-driven architectures, and technical priorities across fraud screening, card vaulting, account updating, and portfolio migration.
• Lead a highly autonomous cross-functional team, partnering closely with engineering leaders and technical stakeholders to deliver reliable, high-impact platform capabilities.
• Drive the evolution toward AI-powered and autonomous fraud prevention solutions, reducing manual processes and improving scalability for global payment operations.
• Ensure production excellence by promoting a strong ownership culture, maintaining high-quality standards, and ensuring that teams are accountable for the systems they build and operate.
• Champion scalable, secure, and observable architectures designed for multi-tenant environments, elastic growth, and operational resilience.
• Use data-driven prioritization frameworks to evaluate opportunities, balance technical investments, and create structured roadmaps aligned with business impact.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across product, engineering, and business teams to communicate technical trade-offs and align execution with long-term strategic goals.

Requirements

• Proven experience as a Technical Product Manager, Product Manager, or similar role within highly technical environments, ideally working on platforms, infrastructure, payments, fintech, fraud, or security-related products.
• Strong understanding of cloud-native architectures, distributed systems, APIs, event-driven platforms, and modern software development practices.
• Experience leading complex platform products and collaborating closely with engineering teams on architecture, scalability, and reliability decisions.
• Ability to understand and discuss technologies such as cloud infrastructure, serverless environments, microservices, Kotlin/Go, g RPC, REST APIs, and related engineering practices.
• Demonstrated ability to drive execution, remove blockers, manage dependencies across multiple teams, and improve delivery performance.
• Strong product mindset with the ability to balance technical excellence, customer needs, and business priorities.
• Experience working with risk management, fraud detection, payment security, tokenization, PCI compliance, or card infrastructure is highly preferred.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to influence technical and executive stakeholders and clearly explain complex concepts.
• A proactive “maker” mindset, with a preference for building scalable, modular, and sustainable solutions rather than short-term fixes.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package.
• Fully remote work flexibility, allowing you to work from anywhere.
• Home office allowance to help create an effective working environment.
• Company-provided work equipment.
• Stock options.
• Health plan coverage wherever you are.
• Flexible days off.

How Jobgether works

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Our system identifies the top-fitting candidates, and this shortlist is then shared directly with the hiring company.

The final decision and next steps (interviews, assessments) are managed by their internal team.

We appreciate your interest and wish you the best!

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