Vice President Product Manager - Payments Platform

Join our Payments team to shape reusable, resilient platform services that power high-value customer and partner journeys. This is a hands-on product leadership role for builder-operators who combine product judgment, technical fluency, operational rigor, and the drive to create lasting change.

As a Vice President, Product Manager in Payments, you will lead cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle — from shaping and challenging requirements, to shipping on time, to operating and evolving resilient services in production. You'll work across product, engineering, architecture, design, analytics, and risk partners to build capabilities that are scalable, well-controlled, and designed for reuse across multiple journeys and partners. We're looking for product owners who thrive in ambiguity, challenge assumptions, communicate clearly at every level, and can move seamlessly from API-level detail to executive-level discussion.

Job responsibilities

• Partner with product, technology, design, and analytics teams to define and deliver customer journeys and platform strategies, including zero-to-one initiatives
• Own the product lifecycle from discovery through launch, stabilization, adoption, and continuous improvement in production
• Translate customer, business, and platform outcomes into clear requirements, KPIs, and success metrics implemented as user stories and workflows
• Shape and challenge requirements by asking the right questions, aligning stakeholders, and ensuring solutions are scalable, reusable, and consistent with platform patterns
• Collaborate deeply with engineering to influence technical design, validate readiness, and ensure solutions meet functional, resiliency, performance, observability, and control expectations
• Own roadmap sequencing, prioritization, trade-offs, dependencies, and agile execution to deliver measurable customer and platform outcomes
• Establish strong production ownership, including monitoring, incident response partnership, defect prioritization, root-cause remediation, and operational excellence improvements
• Drive platform adoption and partner enablement by simplifying integration, onboarding, and downstream operational processes
• Ensure a strong risk and controls environment by partnering with risk, controls, legal, compliance, and governance teams
• Lead, coach, and raise the bar for a small, high-performing product team centered on accountability, clarity, and outcomes

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 7 years of experience in product management, payments, financial services, or related technology-led roles
• Demonstrated ability to deliver complex products in large, matrixed organizations with multiple stakeholders and dependencies
• Strong product mindset with customer-first thinking, crisp problem definition, principled prioritization, and measurable outcomes
• High technical fluency, including the ability to discuss APIs, service-based architectures, integration patterns, and the end-to-end product development lifecycle using Agile methodologies
• Proven execution rigor with strong attention to detail, self-organization, and comfort operating in ambiguity with minimal oversight
• Strong operational and risk orientation, with an understanding of what it takes to run reliable services and manage controls in production
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to simplify complex topics for executive audiences
• High judgment and ownership with the ability to raise the standard for how product teams operate
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, or a comparable field, or equivalent practical experience

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Experience in money movement and digital payments, including account-to-account transfers, funding and payouts, digital wallets, card-related payments, or payment processing
• Experience building and scaling platform capabilities and reusable services used by multiple products, journeys, or partners
• Prior zero-to-one build experience in modern architectures, such as cloud-native microservices and high-throughput, high-availability systems
• Demonstrated strength in partner enablement and integrations, including simplifying onboarding and improving downstream operational outcomes
• Fintech, payments platform, or large-scale consumer payments experience

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We are not able to provide immigration sponsorship or take over sponsorship of an employment visa at this time. Final job grade level and corporate title will be determined at time of offer and may differ from this posting.

Base Pay/Salary: New York,NY $133,000.00-$215,000.00