Director of Product

Company: Harnham
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

Recruitment Consultant – Marketing & Insights. This role involves leading the full product strategy for a cross-border fintech platform within a major messaging platform, focusing on scaling wallet infrastructure, deepening open banking integrations, and expanding payment capabilities across APAC, EMEA, and Europe.

Location: London (Hybrid, 3 days/week) or Flexible within Europe

Find out exactly what skills, experience, and qualifications you will need to succeed in this role before applying below.Reports to: VP of ProductTeam: 5 PMs (UK, Philippines) + indirect cross-functional reports

This isn’t just another product leadership role. It’s a chance to build the next-generation fintech layer at scale, with startup energy and global impact.

The product is in a critical phase: scaling wallet infrastructure, expanding open banking integrations, and broadening payment capabilities across multiple regions.

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Own and deliver product roadmap across wallet, P2P, QR, merchant and API features
  • Align product vision with regulatory requirements, user needs, and commercial targets
  • Drive launches into new geographies (Europe, APAC, EMEA)
  • Expand product features to support merchant tools, card networks, and open banking
  • Work hand-in-hand with engineering, legal, compliance, marketing, and data
  • Balance innovation with complex regulation and infrastructure constraints
  • Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing global product team
  • Coach PMs at varying levels across the UK, Eastern Europe, and Southeast Asia

Who We’re Looking For

Must-Have Experience

  • 7+ years in product leadership roles (Director or above)
  • Proven success in fintech, digital wallets, payments, or open banking environments
  • Experience launching products across multiple markets with regulatory oversight
  • Deep familiarity with compliance, fraud, and financial security in B2C fintech

Nice to Have

  • Exposure to early-stage fintech scale-up
  • Experience working with issuer/acquirer integrations or merchant services
  • Understanding of Visa/Mastercard enablement, fraud systems, or financial APIs

You’ll Thrive If You Are

  • Commercially minded – you use xwzovoh metrics to make decisions, not assumptions
  • Comfortable in ambiguity – you see structure where others see complexity
  • A strong communicator – equally credible in boardrooms and sprint planning
  • Experienced leading remote, global, and cross-functional teams

This is a rare opportunity to lead fintech innovation inside a product with global scale and startup energy.

If you’re ready to own the future of mobile payments in a truly international environment, apply via the link on this page or by sending your CV to

Seniority level

  • Director

Employment type

  • Full-time

Job function

  • Analyst
  • Industries: Technology, Information and Media, and Financial Services

Posted: March 12th, 2026