Product Leadership Profile

Matteo Polleschi

Entrepreneurial and delivery-driven product leader with an MBA and engineering background. End-to-end ownership across payments, travel, retail, and platform modernization.

Payments Strategy Platform Design Go-to-Market Delivery Cross-Border Operations

Services

How I can support your payments and product organisation

Payment Strategy & Architecture

Define scalable payment architecture aligned with business growth.

Flow Optimisation

Optimise checkout and payment journeys to improve conversion quality.

Provider Rationalisation

Simplify provider setups and configurations across channels and markets.

Settlement & Reconciliation Design

Design reliable settlement and reconciliation operating models.

Experience Highlights

Key impact across leadership roles and product domains

Senior Product Manager · NomuPay

Payments · EU/APAC · Remote

  • Designed a multi-country, multi-gateway PSP architecture across regions.
  • Bootstrapped reconciliation, billing, and settlement back-office systems in months.
  • Aligned acquired company components into a unified omnichannel platform.

Program / Solution Manager · Carrefour / Market Pay

Payments · Retail · France & Italy

  • Created end-to-end ecommerce and card-present offerings across markets.
  • Led provider selection, contracting, and delivery for a major payments spinoff.
  • Managed handover and production launch for high-volume transaction flows.

Senior Solutions Consultant · Branchspace

Travel · Payments · DACH

  • Defined payment architecture for airline ecommerce platform modernization.
  • Drove implementation with international stakeholders from design to rollout.
  • Delivered requirements to production for new payment methods and settlement flows.

Chief Product Officer · Feries SRL

Travel Marketplace · Italy

  • Owned the product portfolio for a vacation rental marketplace and booking engine.
  • Managed and mentored a team of junior product owners.

Product Manager · Ingenico ePayments

Payments · Financial Services

  • Built orchestration components opening group access to key travel platforms.
  • Scaled omnichannel financial products and drove strong revenue growth.
  • Expanded acquiring, card-present features, and settlement capabilities.

Product Manager · Amadeus

Travel Tech · Electronic Payments

  • Created Amadeus DCC product and integrated Ingenico/Ogone into Payment Hub.
  • Led presales, PSP integrations, and multi-PSP back-office evolution.

Payment Architect · British Airways

Airline Payments · Platform Redesign

  • Redesigned the airline payment platform with an initial focus on tokenisation.
  • Expanded the redesign to cover settlement and reconciliation flows.

Payment Manager · Outfittery

Ecommerce Payments · Operations

  • Optimised payment flows to improve conversion and reduce friction.
  • Rationalised payment configurations across providers and methods.
  • Supported chargeback management and related operational processes.

Education

  • Master of Business Administration (MBA), College des Ingenieurs
  • Master of Science, Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino
  • Bachelor Degree, Aerospace Engineering, Politecnico di Torino
  • Visiting student researcher, University of California at Berkeley

Other Projects

  • CTO for a FoodTech company, designing architecture and running full-tech operations.
  • Adaptive learning platform for corporate training with a large active user base.

Languages

  • Italian · Mother tongue
  • English · Fluent in international environments
  • French · Fluent in professional and daily settings

Technical Skills

  • Scripting & coding (Python), API integrations, data processing
  • Docker and cloud-native tooling enthusiast