Head of Product - Central Europe (Payments)

Location: Warsaw, Poland

Company

hirify.global operates in payments and global commerce, supporting SMB solutions through joint venture partnerships and international product and technology teams.

What you will do

• Define and lead the Central Europe SMB solutions strategy across joint venture partnerships.
• Translate customer needs, market insights, competitive trends, and platform opportunities into a 3–5-year product vision.
• Establish governance for product priorities, investment decisions, roadmap execution, funding models, and business outcomes.
• Own roadmap prioritization by balancing strategic objectives, commercial impact, customer value, technology capacity, and partner requirements.
• Align product, technology, commercial, executive, and partner stakeholders while managing dependencies and competing priorities.
• Connect product delivery to revenue growth, market expansion, customer success, operational efficiency, and long-term value creation.

Requirements

• 15+ years of product leadership experience delivering end-to-end product strategy, development, and lifecycle management in payments, fintech, banking, software platforms, commerce technology, or similarly complex industries.
• Proven ability to lead through influence in complex, matrixed, and multi-entity environments without direct authority.
• Extensive experience in product governance, roadmap prioritization, and portfolio management, including cross-functional dependencies, investment trade-offs, and execution across multiple businesses, markets, or partners.
• Strong commercial acumen and partnership leadership, including business cases, revenue outcomes, portfolio performance, and collaboration with joint ventures or strategic partners.
• Exceptional leadership and stakeholder management capabilities, with a people-first, high-accountability approach across countries, cultures, and organizational boundaries.

Nice to have

• Experience with joint ventures, strategic partnerships, or other multi-entity environments and their governance structures, funding models, and stakeholder requirements.
• Knowledge of payment ecosystems, fintech, banking, commerce technology, or SMB-focused solutions.
• Experience operating across multiple countries and markets while balancing local and regional or global product objectives.
• Familiarity with API-first platforms, target architecture models, platform modernization initiatives, and scalable product delivery approaches.
• Exceptional stakeholder management and influencing skills, including aligning executive stakeholders and driving outcomes without direct authority.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive global teams working across borders and cultures.
• Collaborative environment focused on client thinking, ownership, innovation, shared decisions, and excellence.
• Opportunities to learn from experienced industry professionals and grow within an evolving global company.