Head of Product Openbank Pay

Openbank Pay is the new checkout lending platform of the Santander Group. Openbank Pay makes shopping simple offering the possibility of splitting payments into interest-free installments in a fast and transparent way powering merchants across Europe.

This is an exciting opportunity to make your contribution over a growing market within the business areas of lending cobranded credit cards and buy-now-pay-later with a solid expansion across different countries with global leading merchants.

Openbank Pay leverages the technological resources and expertise of Openbank the digital-native bank of the Santander Group which is currently rolling out its international expansion plans. Through a simple and flexible banking model Openbank offers customers the possibility to manage their finances on the website or app.

Role Summary

Were looking for a hands-on AI-native Head of Product to shape the future of Openbank Pays BNPL installments and digital lending products. This role is ideal for a product leader who is passionate about building from first principles thrives in fast-moving environments and understands how to turn AI and agentic technologies into real customer and business value.

You will own the strategy roadmap and end-to-end execution for Openbank Pays multi-product portfolio while ensuring the platform is ready for the emerging world of agentic commerce LLMs intelligent agents and developer ecosystems.

This is a chance to build one of Europes most innovative BNPL and lending platforms at global scale.

Key responsibilities:

Be a Hands-On Product Builder

• Be a player-coach product leader. Know the details challenge the assumptions and lead by example as much as by coaching and mentoring.
• Drive a hypothesis-based customer-focused product development methodology based on cross-functional discovery design thinking from day 1 short purposeful sprints delivering measurable value continuous delivery and performance optimization.
• Ensure that the development team is always working from clear structured functional specs which serve as the beginning of a conversation not a hand-off of responsibility.
• Build a culture of experimentation A/B testing and data-driven iteration.

Lead AI-Native Product Strategy

• Define the product vision across BNPL installments and consumer lending.
• Build AI-ready experiences including LLM-driven journeys agentic flows and intelligent interfaces.
• Drive Openbank Pays evolution into an agent-first platform (APIs SDKs AI toolkits).

Scale BNPL & Lending Products Internationally

• Shape the consumer and merchant BNPL value proposition across markets.
• Optimize underwriting pricing risk decisioning and core lending mechanics in partnership with Risk & Data.
• Drive high-performance funnels and conversion improvements.

Accelerate Growth

• Own product-led growth strategies across acquisition onboarding and retention.
• Identify scale opportunities expansion markets and feature bets backed by data.
• Make decisions grounded in both user insights and commercial impact.

Work Cross-Functionally at the Highest Level

• Collaborate with Engineering AI/ML Risk Compliance Legal Commercial and Operations.
• Ensure products launch safely compliantly and with measurable outcomes.
• Influence senior stakeholders across Openbank and the Santander Group.

Must-Haves

• 12 years in product management including hands-on execution.
• Proven experience in BNPL or consumer lending products.
• Strong understanding of AI/LLM technologies agentic commerce or AI-driven product design.
• Track record of building and scaling products in regulated fintech or banking environments.
• Experience driving growth through product experimentation funnels and data insights.
• Excellent communication skills in English.
• Experience with developer-first products (APIs SDKs tools).
• Familiarity with risk systems underwriting or payments infrastructure.
• Experience launching products across multiple European markets.
• Knowledge of PSD2/3 AML/KYC AI Act or other regulatory frameworks.

What do we offer

• Joining a dynamic and agile company undergoing international expansion.
• Working in start-up mode with the support of the Santander Group.
• Competitive remuneration and attractive benefits package.
• Possibility of growth within the company and the Group.
• Collaborating on international projects in different countries.
• Excellent work environment social clubs and frequent events.

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