Product Portfolio Manager

Paysafe is a leading payments platform with an extensive track record of serving merchants and consumers in the global entertainment sectors. Its core purpose is to enable businesses and consumers to connect and transact seamlessly through industry-leading capabilities in payment processing, digital wallet, and online cash solutions. With 29 years of online payment experience, an annualized transactional volume of $152 billion in 2024, and approximately 3,300 employees located in 12+ countries, Paysafe connects businesses and consumers across 260 payment types in 48 currencies around the world. Delivered through an integrated platform, Paysafe solutions are geared toward mobile-initiated transactions, real-time analytics and the convergence between brick-and-mortar and online payments. Further information is available at www.paysafe.com. 

It starts here. Have a global impact on the world of payments.

The Product Portfolio Manager is responsible for overseeing a collection of programs and projects that collectively represent a major strategic investment area or organizational pillar. This role ensures portfolio activities are prioritized, funded, and executed in alignment with the organization’s strategic objectives. The Portfolio Manager serves as a key advisor to senior leadership, providing transparency into delivery performance, resource utilization, and value realization across the portfolio.

What Paysafe stands for:

• Being open and honest.
• Keeping focused.
• Operating with Courage.
• Pioneering the future.

Our values and culture are driven by Equality, Development, Social Responsibility and Wellbeing. If you want to find out more about life at Paysafe, check out our careers page here. 

How we work:

We follow a hybrid working model, spending an average of three days per week at our office location. The office is located in Gresham Street next to St Paul’s cathedral with easy access and transport links via St Paul’s, Bank, Cannon Street, City Thameslink, Liverpool Street, Farringdon, Mansion House.

The impact you will have:

• Strategic Portfolio Planning: Partner with senior leaders to understand the investment priorities, ensuring alignment with business objectives and strategic roadmaps.
• Performance and Value Management: Monitor portfolio delivery performance, measuring progress against key performance indicators, value realization targets, and strategic goals.
• Resource and Financial Governance: Track the allocation of resources and budget across programs and projects, identifying opportunities and surfacing risks to leadership for decision-making.
• Risk and Compliance Oversight: Establish governance standards for portfolio-level risk management and ensure adherence to enterprise risk tolerance and compliance expectations.
• Stakeholder Reporting and Communication: Deliver executive facing portfolio updates and insights, enabling data-driven decisions on prioritization, funding, and capacity.
• Continuous Improvement and Delivery Maturity: Define and implement consistent portfolio delivery standards, metrics, and dashboards that promote predictability and alignment across the organization.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partners closely with Product Leads, Technology Leads, and other cross functional teams to ensure that investments are executing effectively to achieve the highest return on value.

Core competencies:

• Advanced expertise in portfolio governance, prioritization frameworks, and execution performance management.
• Strong financial acumen and understanding of investment management principles.
• Exceptional ability to balance long-term strategy with near-term execution realities.
• Proven ability to shape delivery strategies and influence decisions at the senior leadership level.
• Skilled in influencing and fostering data-driven, value-focused discussions.
• Promotes a culture of transparency, accountability, and continuous improvement.
• Serves as a mentor and thought leader within the Delivery function, advancing portfolio maturity and discipline.

Experience and qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field (e.g., Business Administration, Computer Science, Management Information Systems) or an equivalent combination of education and experience, required.
• 10+ years of experience in program or portfolio management or related experience across diverse business domains, required.
• Demonstrated ability to manage strategic portfolios encompassing multiple high-impact programs.
• Strategic thinker with strong analytical skills, problem-solving ability, and a data-driven mindset.
• Excellent communication, leadership, and stakeholder management capabilities.
• PMP, PfMP, or equivalent professional qualification, highly preferred. If certifications are not currently held, they must be obtained within 12 months of hire.
• Experience in fintech, payments, or other technology-driven financial services, ideally with exposure to global payment methods and compliance frameworks, is strongly preferred.

A snippet of what you’ll get in return:

• Make your day work for you with our flexible working hours.
• You decide what your holiday looks like with the option to buy or sell your holiday and carry over up to 5 days into the next year.
• Enjoy social events on our roof top terrace with views onto St Pauls Cathedral.
• Our fully equipped facilities include showers, hairdryers and straighteners and fresh towels.
• Start your day with a free breakfast, fresh fruit and snacks.
• Take a breather in our dedicated wellbeing room.
• Spend time with those important to you with our enhanced paid family policies.
• Test our products Skrill and Neteller. Upon joining we will award you £50 into each wallet.
• Enjoy our discounts on memberships via vitality including, gyms, leisure centres, yoga/Pilates across the country.
• Need a new Laptop or TV? We offer support purchasing Apple and LG products via Stormfront technology.
• Join our six employee-led equality communities and help foster a workplace that celebrates diversity and create opportunities to collaborate and learn.
• Give back to the community with four paid charity days.
• Kickstart your weekend early with our summer hours during the months of June, July and August with a 3pm finish every Friday.
• Let’s not forget, we also offer: Private health insurance (pre-existing conditions are included) & dental insurance, income protection, life assurance and more.

What to expect next:

1. Phone screen with Talent Acquisition.
2. Video interview with the Hiring Manager.
3. Video interview with senior member of the wider team.
4. In-person meet and great, and final HR interview with Talent Acquisition.

If you’re successful joining the team, you’ll be meeting our CEO in person during our new joiners breakfast in London – a great opportunity to network with your peers.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Paysafe is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to providing a work environment of mutual respect to everyone without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances.