Technical Product Manager, Pliant
Payments
Digital corporate credit card solutions
Open for applications
Digital corporate credit card solutions
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to grow by providing a smart payment option that grows with their business.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of product management experience in fintech or payments, with a strong focus on account-to-account payments and banking integrations
- Deep understanding of payment systems and standards, including SEPA, SWIFT, BACS, and other relevant schemes
- Hands-on technical skills, including proficiency in basic coding, API design, working with data formats like JSON and XML, and familiarity with SQL and BI tools for data analysis, ensuring seamless collaboration with engineering teams
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to use data to drive decisions, optimize processes, and solve complex problems
- Excellent communication skills to translate technical concepts into actionable insights for both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Demonstrated success in managing complex, cross-functional projects in a fast-paced, international environment
- Fluency in English; proficiency in German or additional European languages is a plus
What the job involves
- As a Technical Product Manager – Payments (m/f/d) at Pliant, you will be responsible for one of our product development teams within the broader Product, Engineering, and Design organization, ensuring that our payment solutions are efficient, scalable, and reliable
- You will take ownership of building and scaling payment workflows and integrations, leveraging banking APIs to enable account-to-account payments, implement direct debit schemes, and facilitate the processing and parsing of electronic bank statements within Pliant's B2B payments platform
- This role requires hands-on technical expertise, as you will collaborate directly with engineering teams to design solutions and address technical challenges
- Define and execute the product vision and roadmap for banking integrations, with a focus on account-to-account payments, including direct debit schemes based on industry standards such as SEPA, SWIFT, and BACS
- Lead integrations with banking APIs of our international bank partners, ensuring seamless and secure connectivity
- Optimize payment workflows to improve reliability, speed, and cost-efficiency for domestic and international transactions
- Collaborate with engineering teams to design and implement payment features, serving as the technical bridge between business operations and development
- Troubleshoot technical challenges to ensure system stability, resilience, and high availability of payment processes
- Analyze payment data to identify bottlenecks, reduce transaction failures, and improve payment success rates
- Act as a subject matter expert in account-to-account payment systems, direct debit schemes, and banking integrations, while staying ahead of trends in payments and banking technologies to identify opportunities for innovation and differentiation
Our take
The corporate credit card industry, historically dominated by giants like AmEx, has seen rapid disruption and growth over recent years. An influx of VC investment boosted smaller outfits like Divvy and Brex Inc. to multi-billion dollar operations, and this has cracked open the market to a host of smaller fintech startups.
Pliant is a German company entering the scene, but it’s a competitive one. It's hoping to stand out by prioritising seamless software integrations, competitive cashback, and a new optional feature offsetting travel-related CO2 emissions. The latter is incredibly novel and has undoubtedly won the company some press in an increasingly sustainability-oriented climate.
Plaint’s offering of both physical and digital cards, as well as its suite of advantages and services have enabled the company to be highly adaptable within the growing payments market. The company has, thus far, entered seven additional European markets and expanded its customer portfolio sixfold. Following successful funding rounds, Pliant is set to further expand operations and its business reach.
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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
233% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Apr 2024
$18.8m
SERIES A
Jan 2024
$8.4m
SERIES A
Total funding: $73m
Company benefits
- Home office and remote work
- Flexible working hours
- Mobility discount
- Budget for professional development and training
- Railcard
- Monthly food allowance
- Gympass
- Weekly mindfulness sessions
- Team events
Company HQ
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
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Leadership
Fabian Turner
(CPO/COO)Previously the Head of Operations at Lendico, and went on to serve as CPO at FinCompare.
Malte Rau
(CEO)Previously a Portfolio Manager and Head of Fintech Investments at Global Growth Cap, they then went on to found Geldspeicher GmbH.
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