Head of FinTech Products - Berlin

About this role

Responsibilities

• Own the entire FinTech product strategy, vision, and roadmap for our high-scale European Marketplace across 9+ countries, acting as the commercial and technical owner of the full monetary lifecycle.
• Drive significant commercial impact by managing a multi-million Euro area of impact, leading strategic contract negotiations, and continuously optimizing the cost of sales of every transaction.
• Serve as the organization's subject matter expert on payment flows, fraud prevention, and complex European fiscal/invoicing regulations (e.g., VAT), ensuring domain compliance and state of the art experience.
• Lead three distinct Product teams to deploy cutting-edge, innovative features that maximize conversion and provide a seamless, trustworthy user experience.
• Master a complex stakeholder landscape, particularly translating detailed fiscal and regulatory requirements from the non-technical Finance Department into clear, actionable product requirements and securing executive buy-in.
• Experience: 5-7+ years in product development experience with proven, deep-dive expertise in Online Payment Acceptance, Settlement, and Fiscal Services within a high-growth European Marketplace business model (B2C/B2B). Ideally with 3+ years in a leadership position.
• Domain Mastery: Deep technical understanding of a marketplace payment architecture (3DS, tokenization), advanced fraud prevention systems, and the technical implementation of VAT and financial reconciliation processes (ERP integration).
• Commercial Acumen: Demonstrated history of successful, data and growth-driven commercial product accountability of a marketplace product, resulting in significant improvements in unit economics or impactful new business.
• Strategic Leadership: Exceptional ability to lead, coach, and scale multiple Product Managers, coupled with the executive presence to communicate and defend complex, regulated roadmaps to non tech- or payment regulation-affine senior stakeholders (Management, Finance or Legal).

Requirements

• Flexible working arrangements
• LinkedIn Learning
• Sabbatical & special leave policies
• WeRoad partnership
• Birthday, 24th + 31st December off
• Short term EU work policy
• Mobility Credit
• Health Insurance
• Employee assistance program

About FREENOW

Freenow by Lyft empowers smarter mobility decisions, helping people to move freely and cities to thrive. Through our multi-mobility app, we feature broad options for everyone across 9 European markets and over 180 cities. Millions of passengers can access services including taxis, private hire vehicles, carsharing, car rental, e-scooters, e-bikes, e-mopeds, and public transport within a single app. In July 2025 Freenow was acquired by Lyft, a global mobility platform, which connects riders and drivers for billions of rides across North America and Europe. Together, Freenow and Lyft are creating a more caring and connected world, with transportation for everyone. We are a global, diverse, highly motivated, and collaborative team that strives for excellence and likes to have fun. Ready for your next ride?