Checkout.com
Product Manager, Vault & Forward API

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Company Description
We’re Checkout.com. You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day.
We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers.
Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale.
If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact.
With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started.
Role Overview
Join Checkout.com’s Credential Lifecycle area and help shape one of our most strategic product spaces: how merchants store payment credentials once, keep them up to date, and use them across different payment providers.
Vault and Forward API sits at the heart of that problem. It helps merchants securely manage stored payment details and use them flexibly across different payment setups. This role is important because Checkout.com is investing in becoming the system of record for merchant payment credentials, and this product area is a key part of that growth strategy.
Responsibilities
- Product strategy and execution for Vault and Forward API
- The core experience for how merchants store, manage, and use payment credentials
- Product capabilities across credential storage, forwarding, and portability
- Close partnership with engineering and adjacent teams to improve reliability, merchant value, and adoption
- Commercial inputs such as pricing, packaging, and performance metrics, in partnership with relevant stakeholders
- Product positioning and enablement support for how Vault and Forward API is taken to market
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Success Criteria
In This Role, Success Is Likely To Include
- Helping Vault and Forward API grow as a strategic part of the Credential Lifecycle business
- Improving merchant adoption and product usage
- Shaping a clear strategy for how payment credentials are stored, forwarded, and made portable
- Delivering against roadmap priorities in a complex, infrastructure-heavy environment
- Contributing to commercial outcomes through pricing, packaging, and product performance
Required Experience
- Strong product management experience working on merchant-facing payments products in product-centric, high-growth environments
- Direct experience working on vaulting, tokenisation, stored credentials, forwarding APIs, or closely related payment credential infrastructure
- Comfort working in technical, API-led, infrastructure-heavy product environments
- Ability to create structure in ambiguous problem spaces and work closely with engineering
Preferred Experience
- Experience with network tokens, account updater, credential portability, or related payment lifecycle products
- Familiarity with PCI DSS and the product implications of secure payment data handling
Helpful but Not Essential
- Exposure to pricing, packaging, or commercial performance metrics
- Experience with portability or migration programmes
- Experience in regulated or highly complex markets


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Why This Role Is Exciting
- It sits in a strategically important product area with visible business impact
- It gives real ownership across product strategy and execution
- It combines deep payments problems, platform thinking, and strong engineering partnership
- It offers the chance to shape how a fast-growing product area evolves over the coming years
Additional Information
Bringing Your Full Self to Work
We create the conditions for high performers to thrive, through real ownership, fewer blockers, and work that makes a difference from day one.
Here, you’ll move fast, take on meaningful challenges, and be recognized for the impact you deliver. It’s a place where ambition gets met with opportunity, and where your growth is in your hands.
We work as one team, and we back each other to succeed. So whatever your background or identity, if you’re ready to grow and make a difference, you’ll be right at home here.
It’s important we set you up for success and make our process as accessible as possible. So let us know in your application, or tell your recruiter directly, if you need anything to make your experience or working environment more comfortable.
Life at Checkout.com
We understand that work is just one part of your life. Our hybrid working model offers flexibility, with three days per week in the office to support collaboration and connection.
Curious about what it’s like to be part of our team? Visit our Careers Page to learn more about our culture, open roles, and what drives us.
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