
Senior Product Manager – Counterparties & Payments
Pliant Plastics Corporation
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Berlin • 🇩🇪 Germany
Visit company websiteJob Level
Senior
Tech Stack
Ruby on Rails
About the role
- Own the roadmap and delivery of Pliant’s counterparty and payment initiation domain
- Develop and evolve a unified counterparty model and maintain Pliant’s merchant database
- Implement systems to reconcile card merchants, bank beneficiaries, and other payees into consistent vendor identities
- Build and improve Payables and Receivables features, including invoice ingestion, counterparty onboarding, and payment initiation
- Ensure reliable integration between payment initiation and downstream accounting integrations and external payment rails
- Collaborate with partners and platform customers to provide the primitives they need to build AP/AR experiences on Pliant
- Work closely with engineering teams on scalable data models, APIs, and backend systems
- Produce clear, actionable product requirements and drive execution with cross-functional teams
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management or relevant experience in fintech, payments, accounting systems, or financial infrastructure
- Strong understanding of AP/AR concepts, counterparties, and payment initiation flows
- Experience with entity models, reconciliation, or merchant/payee identity resolution
- Technical fluency and ability to work closely with backend engineering on complex systems
- Experience partnering with operations, compliance, and integrations teams in a regulated environment
- Structured problem-solving ability and a pragmatic, execution-focused mindset
- Fluent in English; additional languages are a plus
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity package
- Flexible work setup (remote, hybrid, or in one of our European offices)
- Perks including a monthly mobility allowance, Wellhub membership, and a company card with a lunch/coffee budget
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
product managementpayment initiationreconciliationentity modelsAP/AR conceptsbackend systemsdata modelsAPIsmerchant databasepayment rails
Soft skills
structured problem-solvingexecution-focused mindsetcollaborationcommunication