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. 

Our Offer

• Flexi-Week and Work-Life Balance: We prioritise your mental health and wellbeing, offering you a flexible four-day Flexi-Week at full pay and with no reduction to your annual holiday allowance. We also offer a variety of different paid special leaves.
• Flexi-Office: We offer an international culture and flexibility through our Flexi-Office and hybrid/remote work possibilities to work across Awin regions
• Health & Well Being: With our support and access to various initiatives and sports offers, you can devote yourself to your mental and physical well-being. .
• Development: We’ve built our extensive training suite Awin Academy to cover a wide range of skills that nurture you professionally and personally, with trainings conveniently packaged together to support your overall development.
• Remote Working Allowance: You will receive a monthly allowance to cover a part of your running costs. In addition, we will support you in setting up your remote workspace appropriately.
• Appreciation: Thank and reward colleagues by sending them a voucher through our peer-to-peer program.
• We are hiring in multiple countries, additional benefits in terms of health, well being, security and more will be discussed further upon first initial interview with the talent team.

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.