Senior Product Manager, Payments

Versapay is a company that transforms accounts receivable into a competitive advantage. As a Senior Product Manager for Payments, you will own the end-to-end payments product experience, focusing on strategy, development, and collaboration to deliver innovative payment solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Own and articulate a clear product vision and strategy for payments, aligned with company objectives and growth plans
• Take a holistic view of the end-to-end payments experience, ensuring customer, operational, and platform considerations are tightly integrated
• Define and evolve the payments roadmap, balancing customer needs, regulatory requirements, operational scalability, and commercial outcomes
• Stay current on industry trends, emerging payment methods, and competitive offerings to inform strategy and prioritization
• Identify opportunities for cross-product alignment, standardization, and platform unification across the broader product portfolio
• Lead payments products through the full product development lifecycle, from discovery and ideation through launch and continuous improvement
• Partner closely with engineering and design to translate customer problems into well-defined requirements, epics, and user stories
• Prioritize the product backlog based on customer impact, business value, and technical feasibility
• Drive high-quality execution across multiple workstreams while maintaining a strong bias toward action
• Serve as the subject-matter expert for payments, including payment gateways, processors, payment facilitators, settlement, and funding flows
• Own integrations and relationships with major processors and partners (e.g., Adyen, Fiserv, Global Payments)
• Ensure products are built with a strong understanding of payments operations, risk, compliance, and scalability
• Help shape the future of our payments infrastructure to support global growth
• Be the expert on the customer: deeply understand who is using our payments products, what problems they are trying to solve, and how success is measured
• Conduct market research, customer interviews, and data analysis to identify opportunities and validate solutions
• Design hypotheses and experiments to test assumptions and drive learning
• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success across adoption, revenue, reliability, and customer outcomes
• Use product analytics, customer feedback, and operational data to inform prioritization and identify areas for improvement
• Present product strategy, progress, and performance to senior leadership and executive stakeholders
• Lead and influence cross-functional teams across engineering, design, sales, marketing, professional services, and customer success
• Act as the primary point of contact for payments products, aligning internal teams and external partners around shared goals
• Facilitate agile ceremonies and ensure teams are focused on delivering the highest-impact outcomes
• Partner with go-to-market teams to define value propositions, pricing inputs, and launch strategies for payments capabilities
• Create internal and customer-facing documentation, training materials, and presentations to support successful launches
• Drive adoption and ongoing success of payments products post-launch
• Foster a high-performance, collaborative culture focused on customer value and continuous improvement
• Mentor and influence other product managers, helping elevate the craft of product management across the organization
• Operate effectively in a complex environment, making timely decisions while managing tradeoffs

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience in product management, including ownership of complex, user-facing digital products
• Proven experience building, launching, and scaling payments or fintech products
• Strong understanding of payments ecosystems, including gateways, processors, payment facilitators, and settlement flows
• Demonstrated ability to communicate product strategy and results to senior leadership, including experience presenting to executive audiences
• Experience working with cross-functional teams in an agile development environment
• Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into clear product direction and execution
• Strong analytical mindset with experience using data to inform decisions
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity for technical and non-technical audiences
• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with product and delivery tools such as Jira and product analytics platforms (e.g., Heap, Mixpanel, Amplitude)
• Comfort working with APIs, data, and complex systems at scale
• MBA or advanced degree is a plus
• Experience with ISO standards and payment facilitator operations
• Technical understanding of payment frameworks and data models
• Experience operating in highly regulated or global payments environments
• Builder mentality: entrepreneurial, adaptable, and comfortable defining net-new initiatives in ambiguous spaces