Senior Product Manager - Hardware

About the team

You have probably used our card readers to buy a cappuccino or pay your hairdresser already. In Hardware, we are passionate about creating these beautifully designed card payment devices and accessories that enable our merchants to start, run, and grow their own businesses. In doing so, we deal with a diverse range of engineering topics - industrial and electronic design, embedded systems, all the way to mobile apps and backend services.

We believe in open communication and constant learning over strict rules. If you're looking for the chance to innovate and help millions of small independent merchants succeed - join us!

Curious to know how it feels working in the Hardware team? Check this out!

About the role

As part of Hardware Tribe, you will develop a state-of-the-art POS (Point of sale) system by working closely with our hardware, software, industrial design, marketing, finance, and executive teams to bring new features and products to market and to grow business opportunities. You will drive new features that deeply integrate hardware, software, and services. You will help create and drive the strategy, vision and roadmap, with a high degree of ownership over critical features and the customer experience. We are looking for someone customer-obsessed and technology savvy - with a passion for consumer devices and the payment industry.

The role is based onsite, in our Berlin office.

What you’ll be doing in this job

• Lead a team of talented engineers and designers to deliver the best POS (Point of sale) experience to our merchants
• Be the voice of our merchants; understand their wants & needs and turn them into technical solutions
• Work closely with key stakeholders, hardware, engineering, industrial design and product design teams to develop innovative products and features
• Define overall strategy, product roadmap and specifications for our POS (Point of sale) systems based on a long-term product vision, market needs and technical trends
• Own and manage product life cycle from inception through fast iterations to mass production

You’ll be great for this role if you have:

• Experience leading cross-functional engineering teams to deliver products and projects
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to champion initiatives internally and externally, and for effective communication with executive management and external partners
• Proven track record of taking ownership and successfully delivering results in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
• Self-driven personality, flexible and entrepreneurial intellect with superb conceptual thinking, analytical and problem-solving skills

Ideally you’ll also have:

• 5+ years of product / technical project management experience with a focus on consumer applications / consumer electronic devices
• Experience building and scaling B2B or B2C products
• Experience working in a regulated industry

Why you should join SumUp 

• Opportunity to work with a truly global, multicultural team (we are 3000+ people from 80+ countries, spread across 4 continents)
• 28 days’ paid leave
• Competitive salary package and virtual stock option programme
• Flexible working hours
• Learning & development budget for attending conferences and external training
• SumUp Corporate Pension Scheme
• Wellness benefits: in-house fitness classes with Fitness Matters, in-house Yoga teacher, gym in the office, football & running teams, subsidized Urban Sports Club
• A lot of other cool benefits such as Bike leasing, a Subsidised Public Transport Card, a Language Learning platform/courses, Kita placement assistance, relocation assistance, 2x per week subsidised office lunches and a brand new beautiful place to work in the heart of Berlin!