Product Management Leader – Drive Transformation in Cards & Payments

Do you want to lead the future of digital payments? And are you ready to drive innovation, shape strategy, and make a real impact in one of the most dynamic sectors of banking?

If you're a visionary leader who is passionate about building the future of digital banking, this is the opportunity at Bankdata you've been waiting for.
About Us: Shaping the Future of Digital Payments
At the forefront of payments transformation, we are redefining digital banking. Our goal is to create a cutting-edge payments and cards platform that meets global standards while driving innovation. As a product-first, domain-driven organization, we thrive on agile principles and top-tier engineering practices. Now, we’re looking for a visionary leader to help drive our mission forward.

Your Role: Lead with Vision, Strategy, and Innovation
As the Senior Manager of Product Management, you’ll head a team that brings together product owners and initiative leaders across multiple domains. You will champion the alignment of our product strategy with organizational goals, ensuring every product contributes to our future-proof vision. Your leadership will drive efficiency, continuous improvement, and a culture of innovation throughout the organization.

What You’ll Be Doing: Drive Impact and Lead Strategic Growth

• Shape the Future: Define and align product visions across all domains, ensuring cohesion with the company’s strategic goals. Guide and standardize product roadmaps to ensure consistent direction and execution.
• Ensure alignment: Align product strategies with organizational goals, objectives and key results, fostering focused progress and accountability.
• Lead with Agility: Implement agile product management practices and streamline development for efficiency.
• Be the Financial Strategist: Own the yearly investment process, and track the impact of strategic initiatives. Develop and implement a framework for tracking value realization from investments and product roadmaps across product domains.
• Make Decisions that Matter: Lead governance and prioritization efforts to drive impactful product development.
• Empower Your Team: Mentor and guide product owners and initiative coordinators, fostering cross-functional collaboration.
• Innovate Continuously: Promote a forward-thinking, innovative culture and stay ahead of industry trends.

First 6-12 Months: Your Roadmap to Success

• Build Connections: Establish strong relationships with product owners, the Chief Product Owner, and other key stakeholders.
• Create Alignment: Develop and present Product Domain Visions that align with organizational goals.
• Optimize Investments: Lead improvements in the investment process, maximize value realization from investments.
• Strengthen Governance: Build and enhance the governance model for effective decision-making.
• Champion Agile Practices: Embed agile practices that will drive measurable improvements in product development.

What You Bring: Leadership, Innovation, and Strategy
You are a visionary leader with 4-5 years of experience in driving product strategy and managing high-performing tech teams. Your deep understanding of agile development practices empowers you to inspire and cultivate an agile mindset across your teams, ensuring efficiency and innovation. You possess exceptional communication skills, allowing you to clearly articulate your vision and strategy to stakeholders at every level.

As a change-maker, you have a proven track record of leading successful change initiatives that deliver organizational growth and impact. You are comfortable navigating complexity, bringing a calm, focused approach to leadership, and you thrive in dynamic environments. Your technical background, supported by a degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, equips you with the knowledge to lead in the ever-evolving world of digital product management.

Why This Role? Be a Pioneer in Tech Leadership
This is your opportunity to be a game-changer in digital banking. You’ll shape strategy, drive innovation, and help us build the future of payments. At Bankdata, we value growth, collaboration, and internal mobility, giving you the freedom to explore new horizons in leadership and deepen your expertise in payments technology.

Ready to make a lasting impact? Apply today and help us build the future of financial technology! If you have any questions about the role or Bankdata, please reach out to VP Cards & Payments Vitalijus Lykovas at [email protected], or Senior Recruitment Partner Valdemar Jørgensen at [email protected].

Welcome to Bankdata
Bankdata builds software for the financial sector. We are almost 1000 colleagues on the team, and we develop digital products, platforms, and infrastructure that approximately every third Dane, 200,000 companies, and thousands of bank employees use every day.

We believe in structured personal development, a strong collegial community, and that ambitious employees with flexible and sustainable work lives perform better.

At Bankdata, we actively promote diversity and inclusion among our employees, and therefore, we encourage everyone regardless of gender identity, age, and cultural background to apply for a job with us.

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