Senior Product Manager - Payments

About Us

Perk (formerly TravelPerk) is the intelligent platform for travel and spend management. Built to tackle the time-consuming, manual work that gets in the way of real work, our tools automate everything from travel bookings to expenses, invoice processing, and more. By eliminating this shadow work that wastes hours, erodes morale, and saps innovation, we’re on a mission to power real work, with real impact.

We’re trusted by more than 10,000 companies worldwide, including Wise, On Running, Breitling, and Fabletics, and we’re tackling the 7 hours of lost productivity per employee each week, a $1.7 trillion problem.

Founded in 2015, Perk has grown into a global company of more than 1,800 people across 12 offices globally, with headquarters in London and Boston. We combine innovation, control, and simplicity to transform how businesses work and how people feel at work.

At Perk, we’re driven by our values, like being an owner, delivering a 7-star experience, and working as one team. We value curiosity, purpose, and mindset, not just knowledge, to unlock the power in your potential. Our talent team brings together leading minds from the travel and SaaS industries, representing over 70 countries. If you’re excited about having a real impact and shaping how millions of people experience work, we’d love you on the team.

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At Perk, we believe in empowering cross-functional teams that drive exceptional results for our customers and the company. We're looking for a Senior Product Manager to join the Payments Group within the Spend & Control alliance.

Payments is a strategic product area that directly impacts revenue, cost-to-serve, customer trust, and scalability. The group’s scope spans the money movement platform powering the Perk ecosystem to the customer checkout and subscription management experiences. This product area is a key enabler for other squads and product lines at Perk. Payments have to be reliable and easy to operate in order to enable the business while also providing customers with a frictionless payments experience.

In this group you will lead a critical area of our payments product, and we are looking for strong candidates with proven backgrounds working in payments or payment-adjacent areas.

• Own the strategy: Define the mission and roadmap for your squad, aligned to company goals (revenue, reliability, margin, and customer trust).

• Partner deeply cross-functionally: Work closely with Engineering, Design, Data, Ops, Finance and other product teams to deliver outcomes end-to-end.

• Advocate for the end user: Maintain a high bar for a seamless and intuitive payments experience for customers.

• Own integrations and external dependencies: Work with PSPs/acquirers/banks/providers when relevant; manage constraints and tradeoffs.

• Improve payment performance: Drive measurable improvements in success rate, latency, failure handling, and operational load.

• Scale financial operations through product: Reduce manual work required to process payments, refunds and reconciliation within Perk.

• Be the domain expert: Provide answers, create training materials, and ensure product documentation is up-to-date for your ownership area.

• Empower your team: Lead with a servant-leadership approach: help the team stay focused, remove distractions, and foster creativity and collaboration.

• Level up the product function: Continuously learn and share insights with colleagues to help build a world-class product team.

• Experience: 7+ years in tech with 5+ years in Product Management (or equivalent scope).

• Payments domain strength: Proven experience in at least one core payment area (e.g., payments processing & orchestration, payment methods, subscription management) and familiarity with financial concepts (e.g., reconciliation, invoicing).

• B2B mindset: Comfortable solving complex problems involving finance stakeholders and enterprise expectations.

• User-centric problem solving: High degree of customer empathy that informs approach to problem-solving and solutions.

• Strong execution and systems thinking: Able to break down complex systems into incremental deliveries that compound over time with high agency.

• Technical fluency: Can partner effectively with engineers on APIs, reliability, edge cases, and external provider constraints.

• Metrics-driven: Able to define clear success metrics, including leading indicators and guardrails.

• Cross-functional leadership: Aligns teams and makes tradeoffs stick, even under pressure.

How We Work

At Perk, we take an IRL-first approach to work, where our team works together in-person 3 days a week. As such, this role requires you to be based within commuting distance of our hubs. We fundamentally believe in the value of meeting in real life to improve connectivity, productivity, creativity and ultimately making us a great place to work.

For certain roles, we can help with relocation from anywhere in the world, English is the official language at the office. Please submit your resume in English if you choose to apply. Do not forget to submit an updated portfolio and/or resume.

Perk is a global company with a diverse customer base, and we want to make sure the people behind our product reflect that. We’re an equal opportunity employer, which means you’re welcome at Perk regardless of how you look, where you’re from, or anything else that makes you, well, you.

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