Product Manager – Payments in Stuttgart

• Identify market and customer needs and derive strategic product enhancements.
• Shape the future of card-based payments together with internal and external stakeholders.
• Plan, manage, and implement complex product enhancements throughout the entire product lifecycle.
• Coordinate collaboration with various departments, partners, and service providers.
• Work with stakeholders at the specialist, management, and committee levels, bringing together different interests.
• Evaluate new product and payment concepts and develop business requirements.
• Coordinate implementation with internal teams and external service providers.
• Prepare strategic topics for working groups and committees, support decision-making processes, and represent product-related topics to a range of target audiences.

Requirements

• At least 5 years of professional experience in product management, ideally in digital products, financial services, or payments.
• Several years of experience in strategic product management and in independently managing complex product initiatives.
• Proven experience working with stakeholders at management and decision-making levels; experience working with committees is a plus.
• Experience leading or managing cross-functional projects and coordinating different stakeholder groups.
• Ideally, knowledge of card-based or electronic payments, or a strong motivation to quickly develop a thorough understanding of complex payment topics.
• A high degree of ownership, excellent communication skills, and confidence in challenging alignment and decision-making processes.
• Experience with collaboration tools such as Confluence, Miro, or comparable applications.
• Fluency in German.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates extensive experience in strategic product management and the ability to manage complex product initiatives within the financial services or payments sector. Proven capability in stakeholder engagement, decision-making processes, and effective communication across various levels of an organization.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Product Management
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Cross-Functional Project Management
• Card-Based Payments Knowledge
• Fluency in German

Hard Skills

• Strategic Product Management
• Complex Product Initiatives
• Business Requirements Development
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Market Needs Identification

Soft Skills

• Excellent Communication Skills
• High Degree of Ownership
• Confidence in Decision-Making

Industry Keywords

• Digital Products
• Financial Services
• Payments
• Stakeholder Coordination

Tools & Technologies

• Confluence
• Miro