Director - Product Management Issuing and Payout

Main Responsibilities

What you’ll own

• Lead the comprehensive issuing strategy and roadmap, from product concept to delivery.
• Manage product Profit and Loss (P&L) goals and growth outcomes across priority customer segments.
• Develop a high-quality issuing technology stack (API‑first and cloud‑native) and a reliable network of partners.
• Ensure strong compliance practices, including risk, fraud, and regulatory guardrails for all services.
• Collaborate closely with platform, treasury/foreign exchange (FX), and operations teams to enable integrated delivery.
• Bangalore Product Leadership :-
• Represent the Issuing and Payout product domain at the Bangalore site, ensuring clarity around priorities, roadmap, and business context.
• Build and support a collaborative local Product Manager/Product Owner (PM/PO) group, fostering customer‑centric and modern product practices.
• Partner with local Engineering leadership to deliver predictable, high‑quality capabilities and platform components.
• Align local execution with global product strategy, contributing to Outpayce’s global money movement vision.
• Act as a decision point for product matters on‑site and maintain clear communication with global domain leadership.

Outcomes (first 12 months)

• Launch or scale at least one new issuing product to general availability.
• Improve authorization performance and cost‑to‑serve through data‑driven analysis and enhancements.
• Onboard key partners and deliver features that reduce reconciliation and operational challenges.
• Establish governance, service‑level agreements (SLAs), and controls that auditors and customers can trust.
• Build a local Outpayce product management culture that supports effective delivery and collaboration.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and manage the issuing strategy, including customer needs, pricing, economics, and go‑to‑market approach.
• Lead product discovery and delivery by translating customer pain points into modular, easy‑to‑adopt capabilities with clear prioritization.
• Partner with engineering to scale the platform, including reliable application programming interfaces (APIs), sandbox environments, and observability.
• Collaborate with schemes, processors, and banks to secure Bank Identification Numbers (BINs), licenses, and sustainable commercial frameworks.
• Ensure regulatory compliance across issuing, including risk, anti‑money‑laundering (AML), and data privacy requirements.

Lead the Bangalore Product Function

• Serve as the senior product leader on‑site, reinforcing strategic clarity and Outpayce’s product operating model.
• Mentor and grow local Product Managers (PMs) and Product Owners (POs) with a focus on impact and technical excellence.
• Promote a culture of innovation in travel fintech use cases by leveraging local expertise.
• Strengthen customer‑facing capabilities to support adoption, demonstrations, and use‑case development.

What You Bring

• 10+ years of experience in payments or fintech with expertise in issuing (prepaid, credit, virtual cards, tokenization, Bank Identification Number sponsorship).
• Experience delivering Business‑to‑Business (B2B) payment products across multiple markets and partnerships.
• Knowledge of scheme rules, licensing, and regulated operations, with experience collaborating with auditors and regulators.
• Experience with Profit and Loss (P&L), pricing, unit economics, and enterprise procurement.
• Experience leading teams, setting clear objectives, and delivering measurable outcomes using data, user research, and APIs.

Nice to Have

• Experience in travel payments (airline, online travel agency, hospitality), especially in settlement flows.
• Familiarity with foreign exchange (FX), treasury, and reconciliation to improve end‑to‑end money movement.

What we can offer you

🎯 A critical mission and purpose – At Amadeus, you'll power the future of travel with a critical mission and extraordinary purpose.
🌎 A truly global DNA – Everything at Amadeus is global, from our people to our business.
🎓 Great opportunities to learn – Through on‑the‑job training, formal learning, and collaboration.
🤗 A caring environment – Supporting both professional growth and personal well-being.
💰 A complete rewards offer – Attractive compensation, bonus, caregiving, and health benefits.
🌟 A flexible working model – Work in the way that suits you best.
🌈 A diverse, equitable, and inclusive community – A culture of belonging and fair treatment.
📈 A reliable company – Built on trust and long-term partnerships.

Diversity & Inclusion

Amadeus aspires to be a leader in Diversity and Inclusion in the tech industry, enabling every employee to reach their full potential by fostering a culture of belonging and fair treatment, attracting the best talent from all backgrounds, and as a role model for an inclusive employee experience.  

Amadeus is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to gender, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, age, beliefs, disability or any other characteristics protected by law.