Principal Product Manager – Global Payments

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California.

📋 Description

• The Principal Product Manager - Global Payments will be responsible for owning the product roadmap and executing Veem’s global payment functionalities, which include pay-ins, payouts, money movement, partner integrations, and payment operations.

• This individual will determine how Veem can enhance and optimize payment rails, local market capabilities, partner coverage, reliability, cost, speed, and customer experience on a global scale.

• This is a senior-level strategic product position that necessitates extensive expertise in the payments domain, strong technical judgment, and the ability to collaborate closely with Engineering, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Sales, and external payment partners.

• Define and drive the roadmap and success metrics for global payment capabilities, covering aspects such as pay-ins, payouts, payment methods, payment routing, settlement, reconciliation, and partner integrations.

• Identify the market, customer, and operational needs across various regions and translate these into scalable product requirements and prioritized delivery plans.

• Assess, select, onboard, and manage payment partners and vendors based on their capabilities, geographic coverage, reliability, cost, compliance posture, technical compatibility, service levels, and long-term scalability.

• Lead the comprehensive product requirements and execution for pay-in and payout partner integrations, which includes APIs, payment method enablement, transaction status flows, webhooks, exception handling, reconciliation, reporting, and operational readiness.

• Enhance authorization/conversion rates, payout success rates, processing speed, cost-to-serve, transaction visibility, resilience, and customer experience across payment flows.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Data, Finance, Customer Success, and Sales to deliver high-quality global payment capabilities that are scalable, compliant, and operationally sustainable.

• Work alongside Risk, Compliance, and Legal teams to ensure payment products adhere to regulatory, licensing, AML, sanctions, fraud, data privacy, and partner obligations across global markets.

• Keep abreast of trends in the payments industry, including local payment methods, cross-border payment capabilities, regulatory updates, fintech infrastructure, and emerging partner solutions.

⛳️ Requirements

• 10+ years of project management experience, with substantial background in payments, fintech, financial services, or payment infrastructure; 3+ years in a senior or principal-level product role is preferred.

• Comprehensive understanding of global payments, encompassing pay-ins, payouts, payment methods, acquiring, bank rails, FX, settlement, reconciliation, payment operations, and cross-border money movement.

• Demonstrated experience in evaluating, negotiating with, integrating, and managing external payment partners, processors, banking partners, payment networks, or fintech infrastructure providers.

• Practical experience leading API-based partner integrations and collaborating closely with engineering teams on technical design, data flows, reliability, monitoring, and operational tools.

• Strong grasp of risk, fraud, AML/CFT, sanctions, KYC/KYB, data privacy, and regulatory aspects related to payment products.

• Experience with B2B payments, cross-border payments, payment orchestration, local payment methods, banking integrations, card acquiring, ACH/EFT, wires, RTP/faster payments, wallets, or payout networks.

• Robust analytical skills with a history of using data to assess partner performance, payment conversion, cost, reliability, and customer impact.

• Excellent communication skills, executive presence, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership abilities.

• Capability to operate strategically while also driving detailed execution in a fast-paced environment.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and equity packages

• Flexible working hours and a remote-friendly culture

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• Learning and development budget

• A collaborative, growth-oriented engineering culture