Product Manager, Agentic Commerce

Overview

As Product Manager for Agentic Commerce, you will define and build the infrastructure layer for autonomous agent-driven payments. You will own the strategy and roadmap for a standalone product line, integrating with Vault, Network Tokens, Account Updater, Authentication, and Orchestration while shaping the Know Your Agent framework. You’ll position Checkout.com as a protocol-agnostic backbone for agent-initiated payment flows and collaborate across governance, risk, and commercial teams. This is a category-defining role with high growth potential.

Pay / Benefits

• hybrid working model with flexibility
• career growth opportunities
• working with a global fintech leader

Responsibilities

• Lead the Agentic Commerce roadmap with short-, mid-, and long-term objectives tied to P&L
• Develop and own the commercial model and pricing for agent-initiated payment flows
• Plan initiatives on monthly/quarterly/semi-annual cadences aligned to goals and investment cycles
• Define the agentic commerce protocol strategy and determine Checkout.com’s participation posture
• Represent Checkout.com in industry forums and standards bodies to shape protocol development
• Establish Know Your Agent (KYA) framework including identity, consent, and liability for agent transactions
• Define credential infrastructure for agent use cases across Vault, Network Tokens, and Delegated Tokenisation
• Design developer surface (APIs/SDKs/webhooks) for agent-first integrations while managing PCI scope
• Collaborate with Authentication to map 3DS2/SCA to agent contexts and new primitives
• Conduct product discoveries with AI platform partners and merchants to ground requirements and priorities
• Develop risk and fraud frameworks for machine-initiated transactions and ensure controls adapt from human flows
• Gather merchant and partner insights to continuously inform roadmap and prioritize investments
• Foster a culture aligned with Checkout.com’s operating principles and cross-functional collaboration

Key requirements

• 3-5 years of product management experience with ownership of infrastructure or platform products
• Deep knowledge of card payment stack including PSP/acquirer architecture, authorisation flows, and tokenisation
• Familiarity with agentic AI systems and multi-agent orchestration in payments
• Data-driven mindset with ability to build P&L models and drive prioritisation
• Customer-first perspective balancing long-term bets with immediate integration needs
• End-to-end product mindset from architecture to commercial model and go-to-market
• Strong stakeholder collaboration across Engineering, Legal, Finance, Compliance, and commercial teams
• Excellent communication skills to simplify complex concepts for varied audiences
• Leadership and ability to influence without direct authority

• leadership
• excellent communication
• stakeholder management
• card payment stack knowledge (PSP, acquirer, authorisation, tokenisation)
• PCI DSS scope understanding
• protocols awareness (OpenAI ACP, Google UCP, Visa TAP, Mastercard Agent Pay)

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