**Your mission**
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As the Senior Product Manager for the Payment squad, you will lead the evolution of our global transaction engine, ensuring a seamless and reliable experience for millions of travelers. Your mission is to build a robust, scalable payment infrastructure that supports BlaBlaCar's multimodal and international growth. You will be responsible for optimizing every step of the payment lifecycle---from checkout conversion and authorization rates to payout flows and fraud prevention.

You will play a strategic role in transforming our payment landscape, moving toward a flexible and resilient architecture. This involves integrating diverse local payment methods, enhancing our promotional capabilities through advanced discount systems, and streamlining financial operations. By bridging technical complexity with user-centric design, you will remove transactional friction and directly contribute to the company's profitability and global scale.

You will co-lead the squad with an Engineering Manager and partner closely with Finance, Product Operations, Data, and other Product leaders to align our payment infrastructure with the company's broader strategic priorities.

**Your responsibilities**
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* **Shape the payment strategy \& roadmap:** Define the long-term vision, success metrics, and product roadmap for BlaBlaCar's global transaction engine. Secure strong alignment from leadership and cross-functional partners to ensure our infrastructure scales with multimodal and international growth.

* **Enable strategic payment capabilities** : Lead product discovery and delivery for high-stakes, revenue-driving features. This encompasses both infrastructure evolutions---such as driving the product strategy for our multi-PSP payment orchestrator and scalable routing rules in tandem with Product Operations ---and business-facing capabilities like launching local payment methods, advanced promotional/discount systems, and subscription models.

* **Own payment performance \& KPIs** : Establish internal targets and drive cross-functional alignment to monitor core transaction health. Be accountable for maximizing authorization rates and transaction reliability across all 18 locales.

* **Drive bottom-line impact via funnel optimization** : Deeply analyze the end-to-end checkout and payout flows. Continuously optimize passenger checkout and driver payout experiences by identifying initiatives that eliminate technical friction, reduce technical errors, decrease time-to-resolution, and minimize operational costs.

* **Navigate complex stakeholder alignment:** Drive alignment across a matrix of internal teams (including Finance, Legal, Customer Care, and Product Operations), balancing a frictionless user experience with compliance, internal priorities, and legal frameworks.

Cultivate strategic partnerships with global and local Payment Service Providers to stay ahead of fintech trends and ensure top-tier infrastructure performance.

* **Oversee technical integrations \& squad execution:** Co-lead execution hand-in-hand with your Engineering Manager and a full-stack squad of 10 engineers, translating complex architectural shifts into deliverable MVPs and overseeing complex technical integrations.

**Your qualifications**
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* **Experience** : 5+ years of Product Management in a scale-up or large tech company, with direct experience in Fintech or Payments (PSPs, financial flows, orchestration).
* **Strong understanding of the payment ecosystem** across emerging markets, particularly Brazil, India, and Mexico, is highly valued but optional.

* **Problem-Solving** : Proven ability to simplify complex technical and financial constraints into scalable, frictionless user experiences.

* **Stakeholder Influence** : Strong interpersonal skills to navigate cross-functional relationships (other Product and engineering teams, Finance, Fraud, Engineering, Care), gain buy-in, and clearly communicate prioritization decisions.

* **Hands-On Operator** : Highly analytical and willing to step outside traditional product boundaries---diving deep into data and operations to move the needle on critical KPIs (authorization rates, costs).

* **Languages** : Full fluency in English is mandatory.

**The team**
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* **The Demand Team** : The Payment squad is a core pillar of the Demand team, which owns the end-to-end passenger experience across 5 dedicated squads (Discover, Search, Booking, Payment, and Post-booking).

* **Your Squad** : You will co-lead the Payment squad alongside 1 Engineering Manager and a team of 10 engineers.

* **External Stakeholders** : Global and local Payment Service Providers (e.g., Adyen) and payment orchestration platform(s).

* **Internal Stakeholders** : Fraud \& Risk, Accounting \& Finance, Data, Customer Care, Product Operations, all other Product Managers and Business teams

**What we have to offer**
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* 2 to 3 days at the office per week

* 4 additional weeks on top of legal maternity/paternity leaves

* 50% healthcare coverage (Alan)

* Financial support for home office equipment

* Minimum 25 days holiday per year

* Local meal plan policy (Swile card)

* 50% transportation paid (Forfait Mobilité Durable)

* Free unlimited carpooling \& bus rides

* Personal growth via trainings, mentorship, and internal mobility opportunities

* Employee Stock ownership plan

* Regular team building events

* 1 day off per year to test our product

**Interested in joining the ride?**
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* a 45-min video-call with Maxime, Talent Acquisition Manager, to get to know you, understand your career expectations and answer your questions

* 45-minute video, call with Julie Hernandez, Lead Product Manager for the OTA team and Julien Haler, Engineering Manager, to deep dive into the role, your experience, and answer your questions.

* Remote use case exercise, followed by a 45-minute presentation to a cross-functional panel of key stakeholders.

* 30-minute video call with Benjamin Retourné, CPO, for final validation.