Head of Product, APEXX Global
Payment Optimisation
3 days a week in office
Global payment solution
Open for applications
Global payment solution
21-100 employees
Open for applications
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To be the payment industry's most merchant-centric provider.
Role
Who you are
- Are you passionate about using data, technology, and payments expertise to drive tangible customer value?
- If you thrive on solving complex payment challenges, shaping intelligent optimisation products, and communicating value with clarity and conviction, we’d love to hear from you
- You've done this before: You have demonstrable experience in Product Management within Payments, with a proven record of leading and scaling complex, data-driven payment or financial products with clear commercial outcomes
- You have domain knowledge: You have Deep understanding of payment transaction lifecycle, including authorisation, authentication (3DS), settlement, fraud, and chargebacks
- You're an expert at: Understanding the detailed working knowledge of Interchange and Scheme fees and their application
- You're commercially driven: Commercially astute, able to craft value propositions and communicate financial impact confidently to senior and external audiences
- You're an influencer: Natural influencer who can inspire cross-functional teams and align stakeholders around a common product vision
- You think big picture: Strategic yet hands-on, capable of operating at both portfolio and execution level in a fast-moving environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced and commercially minded Head of Product, Payments Optimisation to lead the evolution of our optimisation and orchestration products, scaling them to the next level
- You’ll operate at the intersection of Product, Data Science, and Commercial teams, translating analytical insights into measurable business outcomes for our customers and for APEXX. This role is ideal for someone who enjoys connecting complex technical capabilities with commercial value, inspiring cross-functional alignment, and ensuring optimisation becomes a core growth driver for the company
- Product Strategy & Commercial Ownership
- Define and drive the long-term strategy and roadmap for APEXX’s Optimisation and Orchestration suite, ensuring clear differentiation and customer value
- Establish the commercial framework for optimisation, working with Finance, Sales, and Product Marketing to design value-based pricing models
- Lead the evolution of optimisation from a capability into a scalable product line, influencing its positioning, packaging, and monetisation
- Provide thought leadership across the organisation on the role of AI and data-driven optimisation in payments
- Cross-Functional Collaboration & Delivery
- Partner with Engineering and Data Science to develop AI/ML-powered optimisation features that improve authorisation, reduce cost, and drive measurable performance gains
- Work closely with Sales, Relationship Management, and Marketing teams to articulate product value and support commercial success across the portfolio
- Drive alignment across teams, ensuring strategic intent translates into customer-ready, high-impact product delivery
- Customer Value, Growth & Commercial Enablement
- Translate model performance and analytical insights into ROI-focused, commercially compelling narratives for customers and internal stakeholders
- Enable Sales and Relationship Managers to position and sell optimisation as a premium, value-generating product
- Be the Subject matter expert on Interchange and Scheme fee pricing and optimisation opportunities
- Partner with customers to identify where data, AI, and automation can unlock incremental efficiency, acceptance rates, or cost reduction
- Contribute directly to upsell and cross-sell opportunities, helping turn product performance into revenue growth
- Product Excellence & Evidence Driven Decision Making
- Define success metrics, experimentation frameworks, and governance around optimisation performance
- Promote strong product management discipline — discovery, validation, delivery, and measurement — across optimisation workstreams
- Use data and evidence to balance strategic ambition with operational focus, ensuring decisions are measurable and outcomes are sustainable
- You’ll help shape the future of payments optimisation at APEXX building products that directly impact merchant performance and profitability. You’ll work with talented teams across product, data, and engineering, driving measurable improvements in one of the most dynamic spaces in FinTech
- You’ll have the opportunity to shape the strategic direction of optimisation products and influence product management practices across the team
Salary benchmarks
Our take
APEXX Global acts as a Payments-as-a-Service platform combining all the world's acquirers, gateways, shopping carts, and alternative payment methods into a single integration. The company also consults its enterprise level customers to consolidate their global payment service provider relationships, and display all their reporting and transactional data in a single interface.
APEXX Global has become a staple in European markets, with a great number of integrated partners, and multiple enterprise clients including ASOS, eShopWorld, and Swoon. It operates across more than 70 countries, and boasts saving its users an average 15% on processing costs.
Following the company’s success and popularity in European markets, APEXX Global has begun expanding into the US. A long list of partnerships have contributed to increasing APEXX's ecosystem, and have allowed it to reach more merchants across different verticals and in key international markets. Atop this, substantial funds were raised by the company and will go towards development of its products and tech, as well as furthering its presence in North America.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Feb 2026
$10m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Mar 2023
$25m
SERIES B
Total funding: $51m
Company HQ
Farringdon, London, UK
Leadership
Peter Keenan
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked for 3 years at HSBC, holding various positions such as Head of Network and Group Head of Customer Propositions.
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