Senior Product Manager

Wallapop is a Barcelona based scale-up driven by the purpose to empower people to embrace a more conscious and human way of consumption. We believe in a world where collaborative economy is mainstream. This is what drives us. 💫

Wallapop operates in Spain, Italy and Portugal, offering a catalogue of several hundreds of millions of products and services. Powered by technical innovation and continuous improvement, we bring together the scale & trust of classifieds with the marketplace’s convenience & reach. 🌱 Our mission is to enable a connected trade ecosystem, making 2nd-hand the norm through smart use of technology.

The Challenge 🧩

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager  with experience in Payment and Monetisation  to  join the team, reporting directly to the Director of Product. You will own the end-to-end checkout experience, payment infrastructure, and product market fit for new services. This is a high-impact role where you will balance user friction with monetization, ensuring that millions of transactions are seamless, secure, and efficient.

This role requires a blend of technical expertise, product vision, and leadership skills to drive initiatives that address challenges in a dynamic digital environment, by working in a cross functional team partnering daily with our software engineers, designers, data scientists and stakeholders like marketing, operations, logistics and customer service.

What You Will Do 👇

• Product Strategy & Roadmap: Define the vision for Wallapop’s purchase  ecosystem. Prioritize the roadmap with a focus on Checkout and Payments, maximizing Pay-in volume, driving wallet adoption, optimizing payment costs, minimizing transaction drop-offs, and ensuring regulatory compliance.
• New Services: Design, test, and implement new services, collaborating with Operations, Finance, and Data.
• Payment Infrastructure: Oversee payment workflows for regulatory compliance without sacrificing user experience.
• Data-Driven Discovery: Optimize conversion and monetization via A/B tests across the flow (including pricing/methods) to validate ideas and reduce uncertainty.
• Gather insights from users, stakeholders, and partners to guide product improvement.
• Lead cross-functional teams through the entire product lifecycle, ensuring timely, high-quality launches.
• Monitor product performance and feedback for continuous service enhancement.
• Stay current on technological and regulatory changes impacting payments/checkout, advocating for and implementing best practices.

What We’re Looking For 🔎

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 5-7+ years in Product Management, with at least 3 years specifically in Payments, Fintech, or E-commerce Marketplaces.
• Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of the payments lifecycle (Acquiring, Gateway, Escrow, Wallets) and familiarity with PSD2/GDPR regulations.
• Strong technical acumen, with the ability to engage effectively with engineers and understand complex technical systems. Ability to discuss API integrations and system architecture with engineers, especially regarding transactional integrity.
• Excellent problem-solving, strategic thinking, and analytical capabilities.
• Demonstrated experience in leading cross-functional teams to successfully deliver product initiatives.
• Understanding of machine learning concepts and methodologies and being able to effectively communicate and align product goals with data-driven insights.
• Experience in leading the development of ML-based product features is highly desired.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience with data-driven decision making and familiarity with data analysis tools and methodologies.
• Proficiency in English a must & spanish a plus 

 

Do note that all our jobs are 📍 Barcelona based. We follow a hybrid model where flexibility rules. We commit to a minimum of 6 days per month in the office. Each team self-organizes to decide on cadence and in-person/remote rituals.

Wallapop is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees as we want Wallapop to be a place for everyone.

We sponsor visa processes for international candidates when applicable and provide legal & admin support along the process combined with a competitive relocation package.

Additionally to the opportunity to contribute to an agile product set up and work together towards achieving our meaningful mission, we offer the following 🍭 Perks & Benefits:

• Generous individual learning budget of 2k per year
• Group and individual English, Catalan & Spanish lessons as part of our working day
• Private Health Insurance with Alan
• Flexible working hours + Intensive Fridays
• Flexible remuneration to deduct from gross salary (kindergarten/food/transport check)
• Gym & Wellness plan, including physiotherapist in the office
• Generous referral Program & Charity Donation
• Bonus for weddings & newborns
• Wallapop Renta (Tax income support)
• Monthly product advantages (Wallapop Club)
• Work anniversary Gifts and Birthday Surprises
• Contribution towards your WIFI in your monthly payroll
• One-off payment based on compensation package to go towards setting up your home office
• Relocation package (monetary support and legal advice) and visa sponsorship, if applicable
• 26 holidays per year
• TOP hardware of your choice (latest Apple or Windows)

 

What does the hiring process for this position look like? 👀**Please, note that all interviews take place remotely over hangouts.**

Intro Call - run by talent acquisition, focus on providing more information about the role and the company as well as going over your experience, motivation, and expectations. This usually takes 45-60 minutes.

Hiring manager call: run by the HM to asses basic fit with the role. This usually takes 30-45 minutes. 

Case Study Submission - you will be assigned a task to submit within 5 up to 7 days where you will be able to showcase your expertise for the role.

Expertise Interview - run by the hiring team, focus on the required core skills and the ability to deliver in a given context. This usually takes 60-90 minutes.

Stakeholder Interview - run by relevant stakeholders reflecting the reality of the context of the role, focus on the ability to collaborate & deliver in a cross-functional set-up. This usually takes 60 minutes.

Culture Interview - run by culture interviewers, focus on adherence to Wallapop's purpose and business proposition. This usually takes 60 minutes. 

Offer - should you be the right candidate, your offer will be discussed over a call with talent acquisition and will then be confirmed in writing.