About the Role
We are looking for a Head of International Platforms Product to join our growing International Platforms organisation and play a pivotal role in scaling software-led payments and embedded finance solutions across global markets. This is a senior leadership position responsible for defining and executing the product strategy for our international platforms portfolio. You will work across regions, product domains, and stakeholder groups to deliver scalable, market-relevant platform capabilities that enable software partners to launch, grow, and expand globally.
Responsibilities
- Own and evolve the International Platforms product strategy, defining how we deliver a scalable, multi-geography platform experience for software partners.
- Develop and execute a global product roadmap that supports partner launch, growth, and expansion across current and future markets.
- Lead platform strategy across established and emerging markets while creating a repeatable product framework for international expansion.
- Define how core payments, embedded finance, onboarding, partner enablement, reporting, settlement, and omnichannel capabilities work together within a unified platform experience.
- Balance global platform consistency with local regulatory, operational, and market requirements.
- Serve as the senior product partner to regional general managers, commercial leaders, and central product teams.
- Ensure international platform requirements are represented in enterprise architecture discussions, investment planning, and governance forums.
- Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers responsible for the International Platforms portfolio.
- Drive alignment across product, engineering, operations, commercial, and regional teams to deliver simple, scalable solutions for partners.
- Influence broader platform priorities and strategic roadmap decisions at a senior leadership level.
Requirements
- Significant product leadership experience within platform, ecosystem, or multi-market environments.
- Proven success defining and delivering product strategies and roadmaps across multiple regions and stakeholder groups.
- Strong understanding of payments infrastructure and the merchant lifecycle, including onboarding, risk, transaction processing, settlement, reporting, and integrations.
- Experience with software-led payments, embedded finance, or SaaS-enabled payments solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to partner effectively with commercial leadership teams to align product strategy with growth opportunities.
- Experience leading and scaling product organisations with strong execution disciplines and governance frameworks.
- Excellent strategic thinking and decision-making capabilities, with the ability to evaluate trade-offs and define long-term platform direction.
- Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with experience operating within complex matrix organisations.
- Experience supporting international expansion within payments, fintech, or platform businesses.
- Experience working with software platforms or vertical SaaS providers.
- Exposure to platform consolidation, migration, or global capability enablement initiatives.
- Experience within high-growth fintech or enterprise SaaS environments.
Skills
- Payments infrastructure
- Merchant lifecycle
- Onboarding
- Risk management
- Transaction processing
- Settlement
- Reporting
- Integrations
- Software-led payments
- Embedded finance
- SaaS-enabled payments
- Product strategy
- Roadmap development
- Stakeholder management
- Influencing skills
- Strategic thinking
- Decision-making
- Platform strategy
- Ecosystem strategy
- Multi-market strategy
Location
- London
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior leadership
- Product leadership
Benefits
- Competitive salary and benefits package
- Opportunities to grow skills and build career within a global business
- Access to learning, development and on-the-job experiences
- Supportive, inclusive team environment
- Time to give back through community and charity initiatives
- Global employee assistance programme
- Recognition through a global platform
About the Company
- Globalpayers think like a client, act like an owner and win as one team.
- We’re curious and innovative – always finding better ways to deliver impact.
- We empower each other to make decisions, and it’s our passion that drives excellence in everything we set out to do.
- Come and be part of an ever-evolving company and get dynamic opportunities that go beyond borders.
- Global Payments and Worldpay recently joined forces.
Equal Opportunity
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