Product Manager - Payments (m/f/x)

At Tipico, we power seamless, secure, and high‑performance payment experiences for millions of sports betting and iGaming customers. As our new Product Manager - Payments (m/f/x), part of our Payment Technologies team, you will help shape the core systems that enable deposits, withdrawals, payment routing, and regulatory compliance across markets.

Your playing field:

• Own the full lifecycle of payment products and features—from discovery to release and performance optimisation

• Define Epics and User Stories, guiding development teams in a fast‑paced Agile environment

• Drive strategic development of Tipico’s payment platform, including:

  • Integration of new payment methods and PSPs

  • Payment orchestration capabilities (routing, retries, failover, smart provider selection)

  • Standardised, scalable payment APIs and backend services

• Own the customer payment journeys with the team, monitor and improve the key KPIs and conversion rates

• Collaborate with architecture, engineering, business, and compliance teams to ensure accurate requirements, prioritisation, and regulatory alignment

• Partner closely with other Product Managers to coordinate payment roadmap delivery across the organisation

• Specify and monitor non‑functional requirements such as reliability, latency, fraud‑related KPIs, and transaction‑success performance

• Conduct UAT and sign off, ensuring quality, compliance, and operational readiness

Qualifications

Which skills should you bring to the pitch:

• Payments Expertise. Solid experience in payments product management, ideally including PSPs, APMs, banking rails, settlement flows, and reconciliation fundamentals

• Payment Orchestration. Hands-on experience or strong familiarity with payment orchestration platforms (routing logic, cascading, retries)

• Gateway Integrations. Experience working with payment gateway integrations

• Risk & Monitoring. Understanding of transaction monitoring systems and risk control mechanisms

• Regulatory Compliance. Familiarity with regulatory frameworks such as KYC/KYD, AML, PSD2, SCA, safeguarding, and market-specific rules

• Financial Processes. Strong understanding of financial processes and payment compliance topics

• Technical Collaboration. Ability to drive technical discussions with architects, developers, and risk/compliance stakeholders

• Agile Delivery. Experience working in an Agile development environment with complex backend systems

• Customer Centricity. Customer-centric mindset and ability to translate user behaviour into payment product decisions

• Stakeholder Management. Basic project and stakeholder management skills, including planning, business cases, and issue tracking

• High-Risk Environments (Preferred). Background in iGaming or sports betting, or other high-scale, high-risk, real-time transaction environments

Additional Information

This is how we score with you:

• Established International Group. We have a solid foundation on which to grow.

• Personal and Professional Growth. We offer you opportunities to develop and grow to unlock your potential.

• Relocation Support. To make your move to Karlsruhe as smooth as possible.

• Business Bike Leasing. We offer a sustainable commuting solution whilst also keeping you active!

• Corporate Pension Scheme (betriebliche Altersvorsorge). Secure your future! Join our corporate pension scheme, where we provide additional financial support.

• eGym. We encourage an active lifestyle, and to support this, we’ve partnered with an online sports platform that provides access to a variety of clubs and offers across Germany.

• Modern offices. Our very own Karlsruhe campus provides an open-plan space with the latest technology.

• Events. Sponsored Charity and Team gatherings; we like to have fun together as one team and reinforce our connections.

• Supportive Environment. We believe in collaboration and working together as a team, but we also give importance to the uniqueness of each and every one of us.