Senior Product Manager, Payments
Navan
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Description
Navan is hiring a Senior Product Manager to own the vision, strategy, and execution of our Payments platform, the critical infrastructure that powers billions of dollars in transaction volume for thousands of companies worldwide.
This role sits at the intersection of product innovation, financial infrastructure, and global expansion, defining how Navan moves money, manages relationships with banking and payment partners, and scales our payments capabilities into new markets. This is a highly visible role with the opportunity to shape the future of how businesses manage corporate payments at scale.
What You’ll Do:
- Own the end-to-end experience for Navan Expense payments and payouts, from bank account configuration to payment routing, settlement, and reconciliation. You’ll build and manage intelligent systems that optimize for speed, reliability, cost, and compliance across multiple payment rails.
- Build strategic relationships and integrations with banking partners, payment service providers, and fintech infrastructure companies.
- Lead the expansion of Navan's payments capabilities into new geographies, navigating regulatory and compliance requirements, local banking infrastructure, and currency exchange dynamics.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Design, Finance, Legal, Risk, and Go-To-Market teams to deliver high-impact features from conception through launch.
- Maintain a prioritized roadmap focused on maximizing customer value while managing technical complexity and risk.
- Use data and analytics to inform decisions, track success metrics, and continuously optimize payment performance.
What We’re Looking For:
- Minimum 5 years of product management or equivalent experience
- Strong product taste, judgement, and design thinking
- Proven ability to lead cross-functional teams toward ambitious goals with agency and urgency.
- AI fluency, using AI tools to accelerate your workflows and drive impact
- Strong systems thinking to design scalable infrastructure that supports both current needs and future growth
Preferred Experience:
- Experience with banking partnerships, payment service providers, or embedded finance platforms
- Knowledge of international payments and regulatory frameworks across multiple geographies
- Background in high-growth fintech or B2B financial services
- Technical degree or background enabling deeper engagement with engineering teams
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About this role
Navan's Payments platform processes billions in transaction volume globally, and this Senior Product Manager role owns its complete evolution—from strategy through execution. You'd be responsible for the end-to-end payment experience, building intelligent systems across account configuration, routing, settlement, and reconciliation while optimizing for speed, reliability, cost, and compliance. The work spans both depth and breadth: managing banking and fintech partnerships, leading geographic expansion into new markets with their distinct regulatory and infrastructure challenges, and collaborating across Engineering, Operations, Design, Finance, Legal, and Risk to move features from conception to launch.
This role demands someone with at least five years of product management experience who combines strong systems thinking with practical fintech knowledge. You should have proven success leading cross-functional teams with agency and urgency, comfort with AI tools as part of your workflow, and ideally background in banking partnerships, embedded finance, or international payments. A technical degree or engineering familiarity will help you engage deeply with the team building the infrastructure. The position is based in Berlin and requires in-office presence.
This is a highly visible role shaping how businesses manage corporate payments at scale. It suits someone who thrives at the intersection of product innovation, financial infrastructure, and global complexity—and who can balance customer value against technical risk and regulatory constraints.
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