Key skills
Product Management
About this role
Role Overview
- Develop and drive merchant acceptance
- Identify, engage and activate priority German-speaking merchants to adopt and prioritize Wero
- Support the development of new acceptance verticals (public transport, POS activation, mobility, services…)
- Be the primary point of contact for merchants through onboarding and activation
- Support merchants throughout onboarding & activation
- Ensure merchants follow the required onboarding steps and meet PSP-related activation prerequisites
- Act as the operational liaison between merchants, acquirers and EPI teams
- Guide merchants through Wero implementation, answering functional and technical questions
- Represent Wero across the European ecosystem
- Participate in key industry events, associations and forums to increase awareness and adoption
- Monitor market dynamics and competitive offerings to feed into EPI’s acceptance strategy
- Bridge merchant needs with internal teams
- Translate merchant feedback into actionable insights for Product, Scheme, Pricing and Membership teams
- Ensure acceptance requirements are clearly communicated and prioritized internally
- Stay up-to-date on product details to guide merchants effectively
- Provide visibility through structured reporting
- Maintain an updated pipeline and activity tracking
- Synthesize and present merchant progress and market insights to support strategic decisions
Requirements
- 6+ years of experience in payments, business development or related domains
- Strong knowledge of the German payment ecosystem
- Experience in payment business development or payment strategy
- Background in project and/or product management
- Proven ability to drive merchants or partners through onboarding and activation processes
- Excellent relationship-building skills with stakeholders across merchants, partners and internal teams
- Comfortable operating in a remote‑first, multicultural and fast‑evolving environment
- Shares our values: curiosity, resilience, optimism, autonomy and initiative
- Strong sense of ownership, structure and prioritization
- German: fluent (mandatory)
- English: professional proficiency (mandatory)
Benefits
- Remote-first culture
- In-person meetings at least once a quarter