Manager – Card Technology
About the role
The Senior Technical Product Manager – Payment Cards will be responsible for owning the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for payment card acquiring platforms. The role involves managing card acquiring and merchant payment processing solutions, overseeing processes such as authorization, clearing, settlement, chargebacks, and fraud management, and ensuring compliance with major card schemes and regulatory standards. The manager will lead relationships with payment gateways, processors, and external partners, manage vendor ecosystems and platform integrations, and collaborate with technology teams to deliver secure, scalable payment solutions. Strong leadership, communication, and product management skills are essential, along with extensive experience in the card acquiring and payment ecosystem.
Must have
- Extensive experience in the card acquiring and payment ecosystem.
- Strong knowledge of Mastercard, Visa, Amex, China UnionPay (CUP), and related card schemes.
- Hands-on experience with acquiring platforms, payment gateways, merchant services, and payment processors.
- Strong understanding of EMV, tokenization, 3DS authentication, and payment security controls.
- Experience managing vendors, technical integrations, and platform modernization initiatives.
- Knowledge of ISO 8583 messaging and modern API-based payment architectures.
- Familiarity with PCI-DSS, regulatory compliance, technology risk, and scheme certification processes.
- Strong product management capabilities, including roadmap planning, prioritization, and stakeholder management.
- Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to engage both technical and business audiences.
- bachelor's degree in information technology, Computer Science, Business, Finance, or a related discipline.
Nice to have
- Relevant professional certifications will be an added advantage
Technologies
- Authentication
- PCI DSS
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