Senior Product Manager

## Senior Product ManagerApplylocations: Support Office Copenhagenposted on: Posted Todaytime left to apply: End Date: July 12, 2026 (16 days left to apply)job requisition id: R600117**Job Description**# **Senior Product Manager****Global Checkout & POS Experience****Location:** Charlotte, NC or Copenhagen, DK | **Team:** Global Digital Retail Experience**The Opportunity**Circle K is one of the world’s largest convenience and fuel retail networks, serving millions of customers every day across 29 countries. We are in the midst of an ambitious digital transformation — reimagining how our customers shop, pay, and engage with us in store.We are investing in a next-generation, globally scalable Point-of-Sale (POS) platform and growing our product organization with a Senior Product Manager to lead it. This is a rare, greenfield opportunity: you will define the vision, build the roadmap, and deliver a modern POS ecosystem from the ground up — one that seamlessly connects payments, loyalty, merchandising, and store operations across our global footprint.If you are energized by building platform-defining products in complex, high-volume retail environments — and want to shape how digital and physical commerce converge at the moment of transaction for a globally iconic brand — this is your role.**What You’ll Do**As Senior Product Manager for Global Checkout & POS, you will own the vision, strategy, and delivery of Circle K’s next-generation checkout platform across regions.**Product Strategy & Vision*** Define and articulate the long-term vision for Circle K’s checkout and POS ecosystem — enabling fast, seamless, integrated transaction experiences across all markets.* Develop a multi-year roadmap covering in-store checkout, assisted checkout, self-checkout, and emerging checkout models.* Lead the evolution from legacy systems to a flexible, API-driven, globally scalable POS platform.* Translate business priorities — speed of service, basket size, loyalty engagement, payment innovation — into clear product strategies.**End-to-End Product Ownership*** Own the full lifecycle of the POS and checkout platform, from discovery and architecture through delivery, rollout, and continuous optimization.* Lead the design and delivery of core capabilities, including:* Transaction processing & orchestration* Payments: card, mobile wallets, and emerging methods* Loyalty identification and redemption* Promotions, pricing, and merchandising integration* Basket building & upsell flows* Receipt and post-transaction experiences* Ensure scalability, resilience, and performance for high-volume, real-time retail environments across regions.* Define and track key KPIs including transaction speed, wait time, uptime, tender mix, loyalty attach, and conversion.**Global Platform & Rollout Leadership*** Partner with operations to drive a multi-region rollout strategy, balancing global standardization with regional flexibility.* Partner with regional teams to pilot, iterate, and scale the platform across diverse store formats and regulatory environments.* Lead go-to-market readiness for each launch: operational workflows, store training, and adoption.**Cross-Functional Leadership*** Serve as the central connector across Global Payments, Loyalty, Merchandising, Retail Media, and Store Operations — ensuring a unified checkout experience.* Partner with engineering and architecture teams to define modern POS architecture, integrations, and platform capabilities.* Collaborate closely with UX to design intuitive, fast, and reliable experiences for customers and store associates alike.* Align stakeholders across business units, driving clarity, prioritization, and execution in a complex, matrixed environment.* Lead strategic design thinking sessions to envision future checkout experiences and drive product innovation.**Customer & Store Experience Focus*** Champion a customer-first and associate-friendly checkout experience, balancing speed, simplicity, and operational efficiency.* Lead service design efforts across the end-to-end checkout journey — from basket building through payment and receipt.* Incorporate real-world store insights to ensure solutions are optimized for high-throughput retail environments.**What You Bring****Required Qualifications*** 7+ years of product management experience, including ownership of complex, high-scale platforms or transactional systems.* Strong experience with POS systems, checkout flows, or payment ecosystems in retail or similar environments.* Proven track record of building or modernizing platforms from the ground up, ideally in enterprise environments.* Experience leading multi-region or global product rollouts.* Technical fluency across POS architecture, payments, APIs, and integration with backend systems.* Demonstrated ability to operate in highly matrixed organizations, aligning multiple stakeholders and driving outcomes.* Strong strategic thinking, prioritization, and executive communication skills.* Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field.**Preferred Qualifications*** Experience in convenience retail, grocery, fuel, or high-volume physical retail environments.* Familiarity with payment technologies, compliance, and regulatory considerations across regions.* Experience with modern cloud-based, composable commerce, or headless POS architectures.* Service design or design thinking experience.* Advanced degree (MBA or equivalent).**Who You Are**You will thrive in this role if you:* Are energized by greenfield opportunities — you love defining a category-level platform from scratch rather than inheriting one.* Think globally but execute pragmatically across diverse markets and regulatory environments.* Are equally comfortable discussing technical architecture and customer experience design.* Obsess over speed, reliability, and simplicity at the moment of transaction.* Excel at rallying cross-functional teams around a bold, shared vision.* Communicate clearly and influence confidently at every level of the organization.* Thrive in ambiguity and bring structure and momentum to complex, evolving problem spaces.**Why Circle K*** Build something that matters: this is a net-new platform, not a feature — your fingerprints will be on the architecture that serves millions of customers globally.* Global scale from day one: your work will span markets across North America, Europe, Asia, and beyond.* Invest in transformation: Circle K is committed to building a world-class product and UX culture, and you will be central to that mission.* Collaborative and innovative culture: work alongside passionate, driven teams across digital, retail operations, payments, and engineering.## Our mission at Circle K is to make people's lives a little easier every day. Our global family of 150,000 people in over 17,300 stores and 27 countries makes that possible for our millions of clients worldwide, which is why we are committed to helping them achieve their goals and grow with us. We set ourselves apart by our culture and values: in our people and their development, in serving others, what we've built and what we are striving to achieve. No matter where you come from or where you are heading in your career, there is a place for you to grow at Circle K. When you grow, we grow - together. #J-18808-Ljbffr