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