Senior Product Manager - Banking Scalability Platform

Senior Product Manager for the Banking Scalability Platform, responsible for building and maintaining the infrastructure of N26 that relates to Treasury, Ops and Finance. This function is critical to N26's ability to not only provide current functionality but to also offer new financial products in a competitive and scalable manner.

What you'll do

• Drive core banking transformation: Lead the strategic implementation and seamless integration of our next-generation Core Banking engine within N26's global architecture.
• Translate complex banking domains into scalable infrastructure: Architect robust platform requirements that balance intricate core banking processes, strict compliance and regulatory environments, and long-term operational efficiency.
• Own the platform roadmap end-to-end: Shape the product vision, proactively identify market and technical opportunities, and make high-stakes prioritization decisions to maximize scalability and resilience.
• Align organization-wide stakeholders: Partner with cross-functional leadership across N26 to define ambitious team goals, manage dependencies, and drive collective success.
• Lead build-buy-partner evaluations: Play a pivotal role in formulating build-buy-partner strategy, evaluating enterprise banking engines, and embedding the chosen solution into the broader technical ecosystem.
• Orchestrate high-stakes product rollouts: Mitigate risk and ensure flawless execution by coordinating launch readiness across local market teams, legal, compliance, operations, and engineering.

What you'll need

• 5+ years of Product Management experience, ideally gained within a FinTech, tier-1/2 banking environment, or with a core banking software provider.
• Strong hands-on experience with banking or payments architecture frameworks, ledger systems, and designing robust API-driven products.
• High level of AI literacy, with a track record of natively leveraging AI tools to optimize product discovery, documentation, and operational workflows.
• University degree in a STEM field, Business, or Economics. An MBA, Master's, or equivalent advanced technical degree is highly valued.
• Autonomous, adaptive operator with an entrepreneurial mindset who thrives in agile environments and possesses a relentless drive for structural innovation.
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills, with a proven ability to distill deeply complex technical banking concepts into clear narratives for executive stakeholders.
• Deep familiarity with modern technology stacks, infrastructure scalability, databases, and system dependencies.

Nice to have

• Proven track record of managing enterprise third-party vendors and navigating complex, high-stakes external provider relationships.

What they offer

• Competitive personal development budget, work from home budget, fitness and wellness memberships, language apps and public transportation discounts.
• Premium N26 bank account subscription and subscriptions for friends and family members.
• Additional day of annual leave for each year of service.
• Relocation package with visa support.