Principal Product Manager, Core Network

Role Overview

• Define and drive the long-term product strategy for the CPN Payments Engine
• Operate as the end-to-end owner of payment execution across corridors and rails
• Shape how the system evolves to support scale, resilience, and new financial use cases
• Set the vision for reliability, performance, and extensibility
• Lead cross-functional efforts to translate that vision into measurable improvements in throughput, latency, and network success rates
• Influence adjacent systems and partner integrations to ensure the Payments Engine operates as a cohesive, high-performing platform across the ecosystem

Requirements

• 8+ years of Product Management experience in payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure
• Experience owning complex platform or infrastructure products such as payment engines, settlement systems, or distributed processing systems
• Demonstrated ability to define and drive strategy for ambiguous, high-impact problem spaces with company-level implications
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to diagnose systemic issues in payment flows and drive data-informed decisions; proficiency with SQL or equivalent
• Track record of delivering step-function improvements in system reliability, performance, or scalability
• Experience influencing architecture and working deeply with Engineering on trade-offs and system design
• Proven ability to lead cross-functional initiatives across Engineering, Compliance, Operations, and external partners
• Ability to operate seamlessly from strategic vision to hands-on execution, including writing detailed product and technical specifications
• Clear and structured communicator, capable of aligning senior stakeholders and driving decision-making
• Experience with global payments networks, settlement systems, or financial infrastructure (e.g., cross-border payments, correspondent banking, stablecoins) (preferred)
• Deep understanding of two-sided network dynamics and marketplace liquidity challenges (preferred)
• Experience building compliance-forward systems where regulatory requirements shape product and system design (preferred)
• Expertise in API product management for enterprise or developer-facing platforms (preferred)
• Familiarity with payment lifecycle events, failure taxonomy, and large-scale operational tooling for monitoring and exception handling (preferred)

Tech Stack

• Ruby on Rails
• SQL

Benefits

• Flexible work environment
• Remote work options