Staff Product Manager Payments
You will lead the programmable account-to-account payments area with Direct Debit as the primary focus. You will own product strategy, customer proposition, go-to-market execution, market expansion, and implementation quality; grow Direct Debit volume; define positioning and pricing inputs; create implementation-ready plans; improve payment exception workflows; and use customer, transaction, and operational data to drive product improvements.
Responsibilities
- Own the ICP, positioning, pricing inputs, go-to-market strategy, customer narrative, competitive intelligence, and growth plan.
- Partner with customers, Sales, Solutions, Account Management, and Product Marketing to drive adoption.
- Translate customer and product data into growth initiatives.
- Work across APIs, orchestration services, partner integrations, transaction states, compliance, reconciliation, and settlement.
- Create implementation-ready product plans, testing strategies, launch plans, and technical artifacts.
- Improve workflows for failed payments, returns, settlement delays, mandate issues, reconciliation gaps, compliance reviews, and exceptions.
- Identify opportunities for automation and product improvement.
- Grow Direct Debit volume across existing and new customers.
- Expand network coverage and accelerate integrations.
- Launch revenue-generating products for third-party collections and treasury-first money movement.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in product management, technical product management, payments infrastructure, fintech infrastructure, banking infrastructure, or related fields.
- Deep understanding of money movement, account-to-account payments, settlement, returns, reconciliation, risk, compliance, and payment partner ecosystems.
- Experience building API-first products, platform products, financial infrastructure products, or technically complex B2B solutions.
- Ability to work across customer conversations, market research, product analytics, technical documentation, logs, code, tickets, and partner documentation.
- Experience partnering with enterprise customers, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Support teams.
- Strong ownership mentality, written communication skills, and comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.
Benefits
- Performance bonuses
- Sales commissions
- Equity for specific roles
- Recognition programs
- Medical coverage
- 24/7 employee assistance program
- Generous vacation programs
- Year-end shutdown
- Flexible hybrid working environment with 3 days per week in the office
- Role-specific training
- Internal workshops
- Learning stipend
- Company-wide social events
- Team bonding activities
- Happy hours
- Team offsites