Aperia Solutions is a leader in SaaS solutions for the Payments and Compliance industries, and they are seeking a Principal Product Manager to drive enterprise-critical product initiatives. This role involves defining product vision, guiding teams to deliver innovative payment solutions, and ensuring alignment across multiple product lines.
Responsibilities:
- Own the long-term strategy for a major platform capability, cross-product domain, or enterprise-level initiative
- Build and champion a clear vision that aligns to our clients multi-year business goals
- Identify market shifts, emerging technologies, and regulatory trends to shape proactive product evolution
- Develop high-impact business cases to secure executive alignment and investment
- Act as a senior partner to Engineering, Architecture, Compliance, Risk, Operations, and Commercial Leadership
- Drive alignment across multiple product lines, ensuring cohesive prioritization and technical direction
- Present strategy, progress, and recommendations to senior leadership and executive teams
- Break down large, ambiguous problem spaces into clear, actionable initiatives for multiple teams
- Guide PMs and POs in defining epics, features, goals, and dependencies
- Anticipate organizational, technical, regulatory, and operational challenges early and create mitigation strategies
- Ensure cross-team delivery success for mission-critical initiatives
- Deeply understand customer needs, competitive dynamics, partner ecosystems, and payment industry trends
- Establish the problem definition and strategic framing for entire product domains
- Represent our client externally with partners, clients, and industry groups as a domain expert
- Partner with engineering and architecture to define and evolve platform capabilities, integration strategies, and technical roadmaps
- Ensure long-term scalability, reliability, and compliance considerations are embedded in product direction
- Challenge technical and business assumptions to guide sustainable solutions
- Mentor and coach PMs, Senior PMs, and POs across the organization
- Elevate product management standards, tools, and processes
- Contribute to product culture, organizational development, and strategic planning
Requirements:
- Must be willing to submit to a background investigation and drug test as part of the selection process
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must have authorization to work in the country without the need for sponsorship