Senior Group Product Manager - Financial Services

Are you ready to own one of the most strategically critical product domains in a fast-growing European Fintech?

Do you thrive where product and business are deeply intertwined — where your north star is revenue, not just feature delivery?

Are you the kind of leader who can coach PMs, drive a monetization strategy, and build a credit product from scratch — at the same time?

Then keep reading. This might be your next chapter.

 

Our vision

We aim to become the most beloved financial Operating System of French SMEs and Accounting Firms — and soon, European ones. We help entrepreneurs rid themselves of time-consuming accounting and finance tasks, while giving them the financial insights they need to make better decisions for their business.

 

About us

Pennylane is one of the fastest-growing Fintechs in 🇫🇷 — and soon across Europe.

In 5 years of existence, we've managed to:

💻 Build a groundbreaking accounting and financial platform used by SMEs and their accountants

💰 Raise a total of €225M — including from Sequoia, the Silicon Valley fund behind Google, Airbnb, Stripe and Paypal

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Grow from 7 co-founders to 850+ happy Pennylaners, recognized as one of the best places to work in France (4.6/5 on Glassdoor)

🌍 Build a 25+ nationality team, with 30% of employees working remotely across Europe

🚀 Earn the trust of 700,000+ SMEs and 4,500+ accounting firms in France

 

Role Context

You are joining the Financial Services track and reporting to its General Manager as a Senior Group Product Manager. The goal of this track is to build a payment and credit offering natively integrated into Pennylane's management tool, to strengthen the value of its product suite for European SMEs.

You will take ownership of a Monetisation product group in the scale phase, structured around two verticals: Payment Acceptance (scaling the impact of already launched products) and Credit (building a short-term credit offering). The ambition is threefold: accelerate the monetisation strategy, complete the product offering, and create a customer experience that moves Pennylane closer to the status of a primary account.

In this regard, you play a critical role in the organisation, with the objective of doubling the contribution of financial services to Pennylane's revenue and building a credit offering from scratch to make it a genuine growth driver.

You manage 3 Product Managers covering three squads: Cash-in (direct debits, payment links, incoming transfers, cheques), Payment terminals (Adyen partnership, payment terminals) and Credit (cash advance, scoring, credit infrastructure supporting ongoing regulatory applications).

 

Key Responsibilities

• Product Strategy

  • Own the product vision and execution strategy for the Monetisation group, in alignment with short- and medium-term business objectives, with coherent cross-squad prioritisation (trade-offs, dependencies, sequencing, capacity).

  • Co-build with Strategy & Ops and Marketing teams a coherent acquisition and go-to-market strategy (positioning, activation, growth loops), particularly on the payment acceptance side.

• Management

Manage, coach and develop 3 PMs, by structuring rituals, raising the bar, and improving the quality of product decisions. You will work with a mix of new PMs and senior PMs at Pennylane, with multiple management and growth challenges.

• Stakeholders

  • Work in close collaboration with Data on scoring (direct debits, credit) and impact measurement (adoption, activation, revenue, risk), and anticipate data staffing needs within your scope.

  • Build an effective relationship between Product and Ops/Risk/Compliance around the regulatory challenges that affect your scope.

  • Manage relationships with our strategic partners: Defacto on credit, Adyen on payment terminals.

• Impact

  • Accelerate the adoption and penetration of payment acceptance products (Cash-in + Payment terminals), maximising impact on revenue and usage.

  • Build the short-term Credit offering (cash advance): scoping, discovery, launch, iterations, and scale-up. Part of your mission will also be to support the construction of our credit stack, which will enable us to operate the licences currently being applied for.

  • Your North Star is revenue, driven by the activation of your features and their penetration, with the ambition of making it a major monetisation lever for Pennylane.

Your success criteria at twelve months are as follows:

• Acceleration of the primary account rate in our customer base through adoption of our payment acceptance solutions

• Significant contribution of credit to financial services revenue

• Upskilling and consolidation of your team

Desired Profile

• Significant hybrid experience in Strategy and Product Management on products with strong business stakes, ideally in fintech, payments, lending, or transactional platform contexts.

• Proven PM management experience (coaching, upskilling, team structuring).

• Very strong data-driven mindset: metrics, instrumentation, experimentation, penetration optimisation.

• Ability to co-build an acquisition/penetration strategy with cross-functional impact.

• Ability to manage strategic partnerships and identify build/buy opportunities within your scope.

• Ability to operate on infrastructure & operational topics (reliability, run, incidents, partner dependencies).

• Excellent cross-functional alignment skills (Tech, Data, Marketing, Ops).

• Pragmatic, results-oriented leadership, with a high bar on the business dimension.

 

What do we do to make your work life easier?

🏢 Work remotely from anywhere in Europe, as long as your contract allows

📈 Company shares — because you're building something, you should own a piece of it

🏡 Home office budget + monthly coworking allowance

⛹️ Gymlib access: 8,000+ fitness spaces across Europe and 300+ wellness activities

🇬🇧 Busuu access to sharpen your English or French

💻 Latest Apple equipment

🎉 A vibrant social community: sports, Thursday rooftop drinks, twice-a-year company seminars (last one: French Alps 🏔️)

And if you're based in France:

🏢 Our stunning Paris office — or full remote, your choice

🏝 10 extra days off (on top of the 25 standard)

🍜 Swile lunch credits, every day

🏥 Alan Blue — full health coverage for you and your family

 

What does the recruitment process look like?

• A first chat with our Talent Acquisition team (45 min)

• A WHO interview with Maxime https://www.linkedin.com/in/leclercq-maxime/, your future manager (45 min)

• A case study preparation then debrief with two members of our Product team (75 min)

• A final round with Tancrède https://www.linkedin.com/in/tancr%C3%A8de-besnard-7b721033/ (CPO) or Arthur https://www.linkedin.com/in/arthur-waller-a793a611/ (CEO) + a Head of Product (60 min)

• (Optional) An informal coffee with a future team member (post-offer)

We move fast — expect the full process to take between 21 and 30 days.

 

Who are we looking for?

• Must-haves:

-Language: full fluency / bilingual French speaker

• Proven experience owning a multi-squad product scope (group PM, Head of Product, or equivalent) with measurable business outcomes

• Strong data-driven growth mindset: you run experiments, instrument your products, and make decisions based on signal — not gut feel

• Track record of coaching and growing PMs: you raise the bar, give direct feedback, and know when to delegate vs step in

• Excellent cross-functional leadership — comfortable driving alignment across Engineering, Data, Marketing, Compliance, and Risk

• A hybrid business/product profile: you speak revenue, pénétration, and ARPU as fluently as you speak discovery and roadmap

• Comfortable operating in a fast-scaling, high-ambiguity environment where the context changes faster than the org chart

• Nice-to-haves:

• Experience in fintech, payments, lending, or transactional platforms

• Familiarity with payment ecosystems (PSPs, acquiring, terminals — e.g. Adyen)

• Experience with credit products, scoring models, or regulated financial products

• B2B SaaS experience with complex workflows and multiple user personas

 

🇬🇧 Personal Data — Pennylane processes your data to manage your application and assess your suitability for the position. Data may be retained for 2 years from our last exchange. You may request deletion at any time: dpo@pennylane.com

 

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🇬🇧 Personal Data

Pennylane processes your data to manage your application and assess your suitability for the position. If your application is unsuccessful, your data may be retained for 2 years from our last exchange or the closing of the recruitment process, in order to build and manage a candidate pool. You may object at any time and request the deletion of your data by writing to dpo@pennylane.com. Learn more https://www.pennylane.com/fr/vos-donnees-personnelles-recrutement

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🇪🇸 Datos personales

Pennylane trata sus datos para gestionar su candidatura y evaluar su idoneidad para el puesto. En caso de que su candidatura no sea seleccionada, sus datos podrán conservarse hasta 2 años a partir de nuestro último contacto o de la finalización del proceso de selección, con el fin de constituir y gestionar una reserva de candidatos. Puede oponerse en cualquier momento y solicitar la eliminación de sus datos escribiendo a dpo@pennylane.com. Más información https://www.pennylane.com/fr/vos-donnees-personnelles-recrutement