Head of Product, Pliant
Payments
Digital corporate credit card solutions
Job no longer available
Digital corporate credit card solutions
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower businesses to grow by providing a smart payment option that grows with their business.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years leading product teams or groups
- Deep expertise in card payments, bank transfers, or financial infrastructure (e.g. BaaS, embedded finance)
- Solid technical foundation, able to discuss APIs, architecture, and platform design with engineering peers
- Experience working with ledgering systems, fund flows, and reconciliation logic
- Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally in a regulated, operations-heavy fintech environment
- Hands-on leadership approach: pragmatic, supportive, low-ego, and highly collaborative
- Fluent in English; based in Berlin or London is preferred, remote possible within the EU
What the job involves
- As Head of Product – Payments (m/f/d), you’ll lead one of the most technically complex and strategically vital product groups at Pliant. This group is responsible for:
- Card features and transaction processing
- Bank payment flows and internal ledgering
- Integrations with issuing banks, card networks, FX providers, and financial infrastructure providers
- You will lead and grow a team of Product Managers across these areas, ensuring that Pliant’s payments infrastructure is reliable, extensible, auditable, and compliant. You’ll play a key role in enabling fast, scalable, and high-volume transaction handling across multiple geographies
- You will report directly to the CPO and work closely with Engineering, Infrastructure, Compliance, Payment Operations, Risk, and external partners
- This is a hands-on leadership role, requiring a blend of strategic direction, domain expertise, and day-to-day product involvement
- Own the product strategy and roadmap for Pliant’s payments infrastructure, covering card issuing, bank payments, fund flows, and reconciliation across 25+ international markets
- Lead and grow a team of PMs, ensuring alignment across product areas, strong execution, and career development
- Ensure robust integrations with issuing banks, card networks (e.g. Visa), FX providers, and financial infrastructure including SEPA, SWIFT, BACS, ACH, and other local payment rails
- Collaborate closely with engineering to maintain a scalable, resilient platform with clean architecture and reliable APIs
- Drive key initiatives in transaction processing, ledger accuracy, payment reliability, and real-time balances
- Work closely with Payment Operations to support reconciliation, liquidity management, and exception handling workflows
- Act as product sponsor for compliance-sensitive and mission-critical payment operations initiatives
- Define and track core KPIs, including transaction success rates, payment latency, fund flow accuracy, and platform scalability
- Represent Pliant externally in partner, vendor, and enterprise customer conversations, including technical integrations and roadmap alignment
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.
Pliant’s offering of both physical and digital cards, as well as its suite of advantages and services, has enabled the company to successfully adapt to 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, with a focus on the US.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
233% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$41.2m
SERIES B
Apr 2024
$21.1m
SERIES A
Total funding: $123m
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
Leadership
Fabian Turner
(Co-Founder & CPO)Previously the Head of Operations at Lendico, and went on to serve as CPO at FinCompare.
Malte Rau
(Co-Founder & 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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