Step Up For StudentsRemote
Manager, Product (Spend)
United States of America
Full-time
2 weeks ago
H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
Product managementCommerce UX designPayments experienceAccounting knowledgeVendor integrationsAttention to detailDecision makingCommunication skills
About this role
Step Up For Students is dedicated to empowering families to pursue appropriate learning options for their children. The Product Manager will create product strategies, manage the product life cycle, and collaborate with various stakeholders to enhance user experiences related to fund usage for parents.
Responsibilities:
- Parent-facing commerce and spending experiences
- Marketplace and service provider integrations
- Reimbursements, direct pay, and purchase workflows
- Transaction lifecycle design (authorization → settlement → confirmation)
- UX flows that reduce friction while enforcing policy rules
- Partner and vendor enablement
Requirements:
- Demonstrated success and a proven track record of professional/life experience in specific job functions, projects, industries or military service can substitute for professional experience and/or formal education requirements
- Requires three to five years' experience as a full-time product manager, or equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
- Prior experience in accounting or finance roles
- Experience in commerce, payments, or spending platforms
- Strong understanding of purchase flows
- Strong understanding of authorization and settlement concepts
- Strong understanding of refunds, reversals, and exceptions
- Understand that every dollar spent maps to a PR, PO, and Invoice
- Understand that transactions must align to downstream accounting rules
- Understand that spending actions must be auditable and traceable
- Commerce UX and workflow design
- Transactional systems
- Vendor and provider integrations
- User-centered design balanced with financial constraints
- Comfortable with making decisions with some level of uncertainty
- Ability to maintain a keen attention to detail and work well under pressure and in a fast-changing environment
- Must be articulate, a good listener and have the ability to persuade teams to work to their highest potential
- Valid driver license with proof of insurance
- Must be able to lift up to fifteen (15) pounds
- Frequent use of office machines to include telephone, computer, and printer