Senior Product Manager, Card Issuing
Futureheads have exclusively partnered with a high-growth European fintech to hire a Senior Product Manager, Card Issuing. This is a brilliant opportunity to join a fast-moving business at a pivotal stage of growth, owning a critical part of the card and spend experience in an environment built around pace, experimentation and high ownership.
This role needs someone who has genuinely created card issuing strategy and delivered on it - not someone who has only owned acquiring, programme ops, or one isolated part of the issuing journey. The right person will bring a deep understanding of the end-to-end card issuing lifecycle, from partner and processor dependencies through to controls, authorisation flows, operational complexity and customer-facing product experience.
What you need:
- 5–8 years of product management experience, ideally within fintech, payments, card infrastructure or a closely related space.
- Proven experience setting strategy and executing against it in card issuing.
- Strong understanding of end-to-end card issuing, not just one slice of the value chain.
- Experience in a startup or scaleup environment where ambiguity is high and pace is fast.
- Solid understanding of how issuing infrastructure and third parties fit together, including processors, banking partners, card networks and wider dependencies.
- A genuine love for hands-on IC product work.
- High energy, strong curiosity and a natural bias for ideation, experimentation and trying new ideas.
What you’ll do
- Own and drive the end-to-end card issuing strategy, from vision and roadmap through to shipped product and measurable impact.
- Design and evolve the card issuing stack and partnerships, working closely with processors, banking partners and card networks to unlock new capabilities.
- Lead discovery and ideation for new card features and experiences, validating ideas with customers and internal stakeholders before committing to build.
- Translate strategy into clear, prioritised backlogs, working day-to-day with engineering, design and ops to ship high-quality product at pace.
- Monitor performance, risk and operational realities across the issuing lifecycle, using data and insight to iterate, optimise and scale what you’ve launched.
Environment
This is not the right fit for someone coming from a large enterprise background looking for structure, slower pace or highly defined lanes. This is a business where things move quickly, expectations are high, and product leaders are expected to think clearly, act decisively and deliver.
Location
- Expected to be in the office once or twice a week.
- May require quarterly travel to European offices.