Product Manager, Publisher Payments (f/m/d)

Purpose of the Position 

As Product Manager, Publisher Payments, you will own and evolve Awin's global publisher payments experience, ensuring publishers are paid accurately, on time, and through payment methods that best meet their needs. 

You will shape how Awin delivers seamless payment experiences across countries, currencies and regulatory environments, balancing compliance, operational efficiency and customer experience. You will identify opportunities to simplify payment journeys, improve transparency and trust, and help publishers get paid with confidence, wherever they are in the world. 

Working closely with product, engineering, finance, support, operations and compliance teams, you will define and deliver solutions that create value for publishers, support business growth and enable Awin to scale its global payments capabilities. 

Key Tasks

• Evolve Awin’s publisher payments experience, ensuring payments are accurate, timely and trusted by publishers across the globe
• Define, prioritize and deliver product initiatives that improve the publisher payments experience, end-to-end
• Identify payment-related pain points and opportunities through data, customer feedback and market insights, translating them into clear product outcomes
• Drive the evolution of Awin’s global payments capabilities, supporting different countries, currencies, payment methods and regulatory requirements
• Lead discovery activities to understand publisher needs, validate assumptions and ensure solutions solve genuine customer problems
• Use data, customer insights and business context to prioritize opportunities, measure impact and continuously improve payment performance and user experience
• Collaborate with stakeholders across product, engineering, finance and operations to align on priorities and deliver improvements to the publisher payments experience
• Partner closely with Finance, Operations, Compliance and Engineering teams to deliver payment solutions that balance customer experience, regulatory requirements and operational efficiency. 

Skills & Expertise 

• 3+ years of experience in product management, preferably in a SaaS environment 
• Proven experience of launching, scaling and improving products that create value for customers and the business 
• Strong product mindset, with experience identifying customer problems, defining outcomes and prioritising opportunities 
• Great stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across business and technology teams 
• Analytical and data-driven approach to problem solving and decision making 
• Customer-centric mindset, with a passion for understanding user needs and improving experiences 
• Strong understanding of the full product lifecycle, from discovery to delivery and iteration 
• Understanding of global payment methods, regulatory requirements and compliance considerations across different markets is an advantage. 

• Flexi-Week: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing by offering you a four-day Flexi-Week (with one lighter or completely disconnected day per week) at full pay, with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance.
• Flexi-office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our hybrid/remote working scheme which is designed to foster a culture of mutual trust and working flexibility.
• Work Expense Contribution & Remote Working Furniture: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover part of your running costs, as well as a furniture package to support you in setting up a comfortable workspace when working from home.
• Health and Wellbeing: With our support and access to various initiatives and sports offers, you can focus on your mental and physical wellbeing.
• Development: We’ve built our extensive training suite, Awin Academy, to cover a wide range of skills that support your professional and personal growth, with trainings conveniently packaged to help your overall development.
• Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer recognition programme
• We are hiring in multiple countries for this role. Additional benefits, including health and wellbeing offerings, will be discussed during the initial interview.

Established in 2000, Awin is proud of our dynamic, social and inclusive culture.

Like all businesses, we’ve had to adapt and nurture our culture in a virtual environment. Our virtual ‘Life @ Awin’ hub brings our colleagues from across the globe together for various social activities.

Diversity & Inclusion are paramount to us, and we proudly pursue and hire diverse team members. We champion uniqueness and authenticity; this is who we are at our core. Our network of affiliate partnerships are diverse and transparent, as are the employees powering our vision to build the world’s leading open partner ecosystem. We welcome all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. If you need support at any point in the application or interview process, please let us know.

Awin is part of the Axel Springer group. Learn more at axelspringer.com/en/, and explore the Axel Springer Essentials here: axelspringer.com/en/inside/the-essentials-what-we-have-adapted-and-why  

Apply now to begin the next stage of your career at a progressive company that supports both your professional and personal development.