Principal Payments Product Architect

Role Overview

• Serve as an internal expert on the payments systems
• Partner on the payment’s product strategy
• Unlock opportunities for Versapays customers with payments partners
• Create reference architectural designs and custom solutions that develop and employ our payments platforms in ways that uplevel and inform while delivering on Customer/partner needs
• Assess partners and vendors for customer needs and product roadmap
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of internal invoice to cash and payments applications, articulating designs that create a compounding platform value for our users. Lead forward-looking design and investment in those to evolve those platforms
• Use that understanding to write detailed requirements and lead the execution of payments platform initiatives
• Review partner and vendor API documentation and functional specs to translate to the Versapay ecosystem
• Act as a trusted advisor to Product Management, Engineering, and external teams on complex solution design and implementation best practices.
• Work directly with Customers and partners to guide design decisions, to develop creative technical solutions, and to lead execution of those solutions
• Educate our product and engineering teams on market trends and strongly influence the product roadmap
• Be outside in: Serve as an internal “voice of the Customer” and provide critical insights into market trends, technologies, and money movement trends.

Requirements

• 8+ years in business payments product or strategy experience
• 5+ years working with cross functional teams as a technical product owner in an agile development process
• Possess deep analysis thinking and proven ability to interpret information to inform decision-making
• Fintech and identity vendor partner experiences
• Deep expertise on the payment rail systems and messaging systems
• Knowledge of machine learning models & credit decisioning frameworks
• Knowledge of API specifications, file formats and messaging systems
• Operate in a complex cross-functional environment, leading and influencing others, ultimately resulting in timely tactical decision-making to advance our objectives
• Ability to connect to databases to inspect/change data
• Excellent communication skills to articulate complex payments operations, flows and data concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Strong ability to present to C-level leadership and managing stakeholders.
• “Builder” Mentality: Entrepreneurial and scrappy mindset. Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments with a track record of defining and executing net new initiatives. A desire to solve problems with no obvious path forward.

Benefits

• We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.