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Company

is an ecosystem of 60+ successful brands working together across 22 European countries to provide its 3.5 million SMB customers with everything they need to succeed online. With a strong buy-and-build strategy, we are a mix of traditional hosting businesses that offer services from domain names, email, shared hosting, e-commerce and server hosting solutions and, as specialist SaaS providers, adjacent products such as compliance, marketing tools, and team collaboration products.

The Role

team.blue is building a centralized payments team to unlock growth, efficiency, and consistency across our diverse portfolio of brands throughout Europe. As payments play an increasingly strategic role in our businesstouching everything from subscription revenue and online checkout to POS and in-app purchaseswe need an experienced commercial and operational leader to take the helm.

Were looking for a Director Payment Solutions to lead this function end-to-end. This is a senior leadership role for someone with a proven track record in e-commerce payments , commercial strategy, and partner management. Youll be responsible for shaping our payments roadmap, managing external payment providers and internal stakeholders, and developing the commercial and operational structure of the team. Youll also play a key role in scaling our capabilities and unlocking new value across the groupwhether by optimizing conversion rates, improving cost efficiency, or enabling new business models.

This role requires a balance of strategic thinking and operational rigour, deep domain knowledge, and strong interpersonal skills. If you're excited by the idea of building a group-wide function from the ground up and making a material impact on how payments fuel our businesses, wed love to talk.

Key Responsibilities :

• Lead the overall strategy, execution, and growth of the centralized payments function across team.blues portfolio.
• Own and manage high-value relationships with external partners, including PSPs, acquirers, and payment infrastructure providers.
• Collaborate closely with internal leaders across product, engineering, finance, legal, and the local brand GMs to align on priorities and drive execution.
• Guide the product roadmap alongside the senior product lead, with a strong commercial lens.
• Build and develop a high-performing team across product, design, operations, and commercial functions.
• Drive commercial negotiations, contract structures, and performance management with key partners.
• Develop clear business cases for new initiatives and lead execution on cross-brand payment projects.
• Represent the payments function at group-level leadership meetings and contribute to company-wide strategy.
• Establish scalable processes and metrics to measure impact across multiple markets and brands.
• Navigate regulatory considerations in partnership with legal and compliance teams.
• Stay ahead of industry trends and innovations in the payments ecosystem, particularly those relevant to e-commerce and subscription models.

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