Product Manager - Payments

Salary: £100,000 - 100,000 per year

Requirements:

• A track record of owning platform or infrastructure products where customers are internal, ideally in payments, financial services, or integrations-heavy domains.
• Ruthless prioritisation and focus; you make high-leverage bets and cut scope decisively.
• Strong stakeholder management; you manage competing demands from AP, AR, Payroll, and fintech teams and secure alignment without direct authority.
• Multi-geography and regulatory fluency; you have built products across countries with different regulations, payment rails, and vendor landscapes without fragmenting the platform.
• Exceptional communication across technical and business audiences; you can explain payment orchestration, compliance implications, business impact, and adoption strategy clearly.
• Ability to translate platform value into commercial concepts; you drive adoption by demonstrating ROI, not by mandate.
• Nice to have: payments product management or fintech experience.
• Nice to have: experience managing 10 third-party API integrations with trade-off decisions on vendor support and lock-in.
• Nice to have: experience with embeddable UI, developer experience, and API/SDK adoption.
• Nice to have: familiarity with event-driven architecture, including webhooks, idempotency, event sourcing, and eventual consistency.
• Nice to have: familiarity with Open Banking, embedded finance, real-time payments, or API banking trends.

Responsibilities:

• Own the global payment platform roadmap for both Payments In and Payments Out.
• Design the consumption experience for internal product teams through clear APIs and embeddable UI components so AP, AR, Payroll, Expense, and fintech teams can integrate payments without managing provider complexity.
• Prioritise provider integrations and payment methods by evaluating market demand, customer footprint, and internal product needs.
• Work with providers on roadmap alignment, SLA management, feature prioritisation, and support escalation.
• Define compliance and regulatory strategy in partnership with legal and compliance, including PSD2, Open Banking, local payment regulations, fraud and AML rules, and data residency requirements.
• Drive adoption and migration of internal products from legacy payment handling to the Payments Platform.
• Own the evolution of embeddable payment UI, including hosted forms, embedded payment inputs, and payment method selection components.
• Build alignment across a complex stakeholder network by coordinating roadmaps with internal product teams, managing provider expectations, and working with sales and fintech on new opportunities.
• Deliver a clear, documented roadmap for both Payments In and Out with explicit prioritisation logic.
• Rationalise the provider ecosystem by sunsetting low-value providers, strengthening key partnerships, and putting clear SLAs and governance in place.
• Grow measurable internal product adoption across AP, AR, Payroll, and fintech teams.
• Ensure embeddable UI components are adopted across products, well documented, easy to integrate, and regularly enhanced.
• Document and establish a trusted compliance and regulatory strategy.
• Support consistent achievement of 99.95% uptime and alignment between engineering and operations on SLAs.
• Ship 2-3 major features or provider additions that visibly unlock new capabilities for internal products.

Technologies:

• API
• Embedded
• Flow
• Support
• Network
• Rails
• Sage
• UX UI Design

More:

We are partnering directly with Sage to hire for this role. Sages Payments Platform is the trusted foundation that powers how customers move money globally. We operate two core services: Payments In for receivables collection and Payments Out for supplier payments, payroll, and disbursements, integrating with payment providers across major geographies and methods including ACH, SEPA, Wire, Card, and Real-Time Payments. Our customers are internal product teams, and our role is to help them embed money movement into their workflows through clean APIs, embeddable UI components, and a globally consistent provider network. This is a critical moment for us, as payments are becoming a central differentiator that unlocks cash flow, liquidity, and fintech opportunities for Sage customers. This is a hybrid role requiring 3 days per week in our Newcastle office. Benefits include a generous bonus and pension scheme, 25 days of paid annual leave with the option to buy more, 8 bank holidays, paid volunteer days through Sage Foundation, income protection, health, dental and vision coverage, work away flexibility, ongoing training and professional development, hybrid working, and access to wellbeing and finance-related memberships.

last updated 35 week of 2026