Product Manager – Horizontal Platform Poseidon
On-siteBad Hersfeld, Hesse, Germany
Job Summary
Own the Poseidon App roadmap and Book of Work for the DACH region, driving end-to-end release planning across attended, unattended, and SoftPOS environments. Manage payment method strategies including girocard, international card schemes, and digital euro initiatives while overseeing estate management, remote updates, and certification sequencing for PCI-PTS and P2PE. Align product direction with DACH regulators like BaFin and Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft, partnering with sales leadership on feature commitments and customer escalations. Collaborate closely with engineering and hardware teams to ensure release readiness and supply chain viability for the terminal application stack.
Required Qualifications
- Native or Business fluent German language
- 5+ years of product management in the DACH/EU payments space — terminal vendor, PSP, acquiring, or network operator
- Broad payments fluency: girocard, international card schemes, SoftPOS, APMs, ELV/SEPA — and how a terminal management system (VHQ or equivalent) ties the estate together
- Technical foundation: ZVT-H / PSDK / SDI / EP2, EMV kernel, PCI-PTS, P2PE, PSD2 SCA. You do not need to code, but you read Engineering quotes and certification reports on your own
- Book of Work discipline: comfortable owning a multi-product, multi-customer release matrix and forcing prioritisation trade-offs
- Regulatory instinct: BaFin/ZAG context, DK/GBIC, ZAIT — you know when a feature change triggers an approval process
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