Bank Payment Partnerships Manager – Europe

Overview

In this role you will steer Wise’s European banking partnerships and access to payment schemes to power faster, cheaper cross-border payments. You will work across Strategy, Product, and Operations to expand rails and optimize money movement. You’ll lead direct scheme and central-bank connectivity, negotiate terms, and ensure compliant, scalable onboarding. This is a high-impact role building global payments infrastructure with cross-functional teams. You’ll join a mission-driven, diverse team working to move money without borders.

Responsibilities

• Lead strategic bank partner relationships and direct access to European payment schemes and central banks
• Negotiate terms, pricing, and SLAs to reduce costs, speed up transactions, and improve visibility
• Own end-to-end connectivity process to payment schemes and central bank infrastructure across Europe; manage integration milestones and liquidity strategy
• Lead end-to-end deal onboarding: pitches, contracts, account openings, due diligence, cross-functional coordination
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Legal, Risk, and Compliance to translate payment mechanics into features and roadmaps
• Oversee regulatory compliance and operations coaching: KYC, due diligence, regulatory reporting; automate payment exceptions and scale processing

Key requirements

• Deep domain expertise in transaction banking, cash management, FIG, or payment infrastructure at a bank, PSP, or fintech
• Strong relationship-building skills with executive stakeholders
• Data-driven, metrics-oriented mindset for monitoring performance and optimizing economics
• Detail-oriented approach to contracts, compliance reviews, and onboarding blockers
• Ability to bridge bank requirements with technical execution across cross-functional teams
• Mission-driven to build global payments infrastructure

• relationship-building
• data-driven decision making
• problem solving
• payments infrastructure knowledge
• direct access to payment schemes
• KYC and due diligence processes

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