Full-Time

Senior Product Manager

Updated on 9/3/2026

Blackthorn

Blackthorn

51-200 employees

Salesforce-native event management and payments

Compensation Overview

$6k - $8k/mo

+ Stock options + $400 office stipend

Remote in USA

Remote

Remote within the listed U.S. states.

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
Product Management
Salesforce

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Requirements
  • Solid experience as a Product Manager in a SaaS product environment, with a track record of owning and delivering complex product areas.
  • Strong strategic thinking combined with the ability to drive execution through cross-functional teams.
  • Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, including presenting to executives and engaging with customers.
  • Experience using product analytics to inform decisions and measure outcomes.
  • Fluency in AI and a proactive approach to finding ways AI can improve products and processes.
  • Proven ability to maintain high delivery velocity within a dedicated squad in an iterative, AI-assisted engineering environment.
Responsibilities
  • Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery for one or more significant product areas within the company’s suite.
  • Define and prioritize outcomes by understanding customer needs, market trends, and business goals.
  • Develop and maintain a clearly communicated product roadmap aligned with company priorities.
  • Lead cross-functional squads through discovery, definition, and delivery of complex product initiatives.
  • Write product requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria for engineering and quality assurance teams.
  • Drive engineering-team alignment and keep the team focused, unblocked, and progressing toward meaningful outcomes.
  • Own the squad’s delivery cadence, track commitments, stay close to the work, and remove blockers.
  • Use AI tooling in the AI-first development environment to accelerate discovery, documentation, and delivery.
  • Use product analytics and qualitative research to validate decisions and improve shipped products.
  • Act as the primary product voice for the domain in conversations with Sales, Marketing, Support, and Customer Success.
  • Lead customer discovery interviews and synthesize insights into actionable product direction.
  • Communicate with senior leadership about roadmap, tradeoffs, and progress.
  • Represent the company’s product perspective with external partners and customers as needed.
  • Champion AI tooling and experimentation to improve internal workflows and customer-facing experiences.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with payments, events, or communications products.
  • Familiarity with the Salesforce ecosystem, including platform capabilities, AppExchange dynamics, and customer expectations.
  • Deep knowledge of higher education, healthcare, or nonprofit verticals.
  • Experience mentoring or leading other Product Managers.
  • Experience with mobile applications or event check-in technology.
  • Background in user experience, engineering, or consulting that informs collaboration with technical teams.

Blackthorn.io builds Salesforce-native software for event management and payment processing. Its products fit inside the Salesforce ecosystem to automate and streamline tasks around events and payments. Blackthorn Events connects with Salesforce to handle registration, attendee management, and post-event analytics, letting users automate workflows and track outcomes without leaving their CRM. Blackthorn Payments creates configurable payment workflows inside Salesforce, enabling secure transaction processing and custom payment processes tailored to each client. The company differentiates itself by delivering tightly integrated, customizable solutions within Salesforce, designed for organizations such as schools, consulting firms, and businesses that run frequent events, all offered on a subscription basis. Overall, its goal is to help organizations run events and handle payments more efficiently by embedding these capabilities directly into Salesforce.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Early VC

Total Funding

$16M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2015

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What believers are saying

  • Blackthorn shipped August 2026 block ticketing and one-click invitation declines.
  • June 2026 releases added FMV tracking, ROI dashboards, and Authorize.Net hosted checkout.
  • AppExchange pricing shows recurring revenue at $4,800 per org yearly, with nonprofit discounts.

What critics are saying

  • Blackthorn depends on Salesforce AppExchange; Salesforce platform changes can break distribution overnight.
  • August 2026 releases still fixed Stripe webhooks, double-charges, and cloning regressions.
  • Salesforce can bundle events and payments features into core products, commoditizing Blackthorn by 2027.

What makes Blackthorn unique

  • Blackthorn keeps events, payments, and SMS inside Salesforce records without middleware.
  • Its 2026 planner moves event work outside Salesforce while syncing to Salesforce data.
  • Payments supports 120-plus gateways, including Stripe and Authorize.net, plus mobile Field Service tools.

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Benefits

Stock Options

Flexible Work Week

Maternity/Paternity leave

Student loan debt assistance

Pledge 1% - time off during the year for helping nonprofits

Health insurance contribution (if in the US)

Children's 529 college fund assistance (if in the US)

Fully remote global team working from home

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

2%

1 year growth

3%

2 year growth

7%
Business Wire
Nov 17th, 2022
Rf Invests In Event Management Software Leader Blackthorn.Io, Underscoring Expanded Software Focus

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RF Investment Partners (“RF”), a provider of structured capital, is pleased to announce a recent growth capital co-investment with Level Structured Capital in Blackthorn.io, an award-winning provider of a fully integrated, Salesforce-native event management and payments software platform. The investment represents the evolution of RF’s focus and expertise in the software industry and the continuation of a proven track record of investing in the sector through multiple funds. With Blackthorn as the 11th addition to RF’s tech-focused platform, the firm is proud to continue to uphold its partnership-led approach built on active engagement, empathy, and infusing best practices around go-to-market, product, and strategy

FinSMEs
Jun 29th, 2022
Blackthorn.io Raised $16M in Funding

Blackthorn.io, a NY-based provider of event management, payment processing, and SMS apps on Salesforce, raised $16m in funding

PR Newswire
Jun 29th, 2022
Blackthorn.io Secures $16 Million in Structured Capital to Drive Product and Engineering Development and Enhance Risk Mitigation Efforts

/PRNewswire/ -- Blackthorn.io, the wizard of event management, payment processing, and SMS apps on Salesforce, today announces $16 million in funding — $15M in...

PR Newswire
Jun 29th, 2022
Blackthorn.Io Secures $16 Million In Structured Capital To Drive Product And Engineering Development And Enhance Risk Mitigation Efforts

Salesforce appexchange provider leverages capital infusion to expand event management and payments processing platform and double down on employee retention and growth. NEW YORK , June 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Blackthorn.io , the wizard of event management, payment processing, and SMS apps on Salesforce, today announces $16 million in funding — $15M in debt financing with nearly $1M in primary financing. Fueled by its capital raise, Blackthorn.io expects to grow its customer base by 40% by the end of the year

Destination CRM
Mar 29th, 2022
Blackthorn Payments launches product features to Salesforce apps

Blackthorn.io, a provider of of event management, payment processing, and compliance apps on Salesforce, has added product features to its Salesforce apps.