Senior Product Manager (Core Payments)

TL;DR

Senior Product Manager (Core Payments): Own the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for ZEAL’s payment domain, ensuring seamless, secure, and scalable transactions across business units with an accent on performance optimization, compliance, and user experience. Focus on improving checkout flows, payment routing, evaluating new methods, and driving data-informed experimentation.

Location: Hamburg, hybrid setup

Company

Leading international provider of online lottery products with brands like LOTTO24 and Tipp24, Germany’s largest digital lottery operator and partner of Spain’s ONCE.

What you will do

• Define and own product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Core Payments.
• Translate business goals into outcome-driven initiatives, optimizing performance, reliability, scalability, and UX.
• Improve key metrics like authorization rates and conversion through checkout flows, payment routing, and processing.
• Evaluate new payment methods and providers, manage backlog, and drive end-to-end execution.
• Act as main contact for payment topics, collaborating with engineering, finance, compliance, and business teams.
• Ensure regulatory compliance, track KPIs, and base decisions on data and insights.

Requirements

• 6+ years product management experience, including 2+ years in senior role with end-to-end ownership
• Proven product strategy execution in multi-stakeholder environments
• Experience with payments or financial systems (checkout, authorization, processing, payouts)
• Understanding of payment KPIs (conversion, authorization rates, reliability)
• Platform or B2B product building for scalable solutions
• Work in regulated environments with legal, compliance, security constraints

Culture & Benefits

• Modern, dynamic culture with trust, autonomy, and no micromanagement
• Hybrid work focused on results, unlimited vacation days plus 30-day allowance
• Annual €1,500 development budget, workations abroad via WorkFlex
• Mobility allowance €30/month, company bike leasing, pension scheme with Degura
• Subsidized EGYM WELLPASS €25/month for gyms and sports
• Monthly events, team activities, company lunches 4 days/week