Vice President, Product – Payments, Money Movement

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

📋 Description

• Take charge of the strategy, roadmap, and execution for the Payments & Money Movement portfolio.

• Mentor, coach, and develop skilled product leaders and their respective teams.

• Manage immediate execution while simultaneously focusing on platform modernization and future growth.

• Collaborate closely with Engineering leadership to enhance and scale PayNearMe's transactional platform.

• Shape the future of Smart Switch and payment orchestration across various processors, rails, and payment methods.

• Generalize core platform functionalities to accommodate existing and future verticals without creating one-off solutions.

• Work in partnership with Finance, Accounting, Operations, Risk, and Compliance to address operational needs as transaction volume and complexity increase.

• Drive product decisions that enhance reliability, payment performance, operational efficiency, and economic viability.

• Identify opportunities to increase the commercial value of PayNearMe's payments and money movement offerings.

• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, and Revenue teams to convert platform investments into quantifiable client and business outcomes.

• Act as a vital member of the Product Leadership Team, contributing to the overarching product strategy and operating model.

• Oversee payment capture, routing/orchestration, risk decisioning, compliance, disbursements, settlement, reconciliation, billing, pricing, and APIs/access capabilities.

• Enhance execution, accountability, scalability, reliability, operational efficiency, reusability, risk/compliance support, and commercial value throughout the portfolio.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 12 years of product management experience, with substantial exposure to payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure.

• More than 7 years of progressive product leadership experience, including oversight of multiple product teams and senior product leaders.

• Extensive payments experience, showcasing a solid understanding of payment processing and money movement in areas such as gateways, acquiring, routing, card and ACH processing, settlement, reconciliation, or disbursements.

• Proven experience in scaling, modernizing, or transforming a complex, high-volume transaction platform.

• Background in leading products and teams through substantial growth, including increased transaction volume, expanded platform capabilities, entry into new markets, or support for new revenue streams.

• Strong history of collaboration with senior Engineering leaders on technically intricate platform investments and transformation projects.

• Demonstrated ability to balance the execution of a critical existing business with long-term platform investments and modernization efforts.

• Strong commercial acumen and business judgment, with experience linking product strategy and investment decisions to revenue growth, economics, and client value.

• Experience in cultivating strong product leaders and building teams that function with growing accountability and autonomy.

• Excellent executive communication skills and the ability to effectively collaborate across Product, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Revenue leadership.

• Familiarity with multi-processor or multi-rail payment orchestration.

• Experience in payment optimization, routing, or gateway products.

• Knowledge of both pay-in and pay-out/disbursement capabilities.

• Background in payment risk, compliance, or financial controls.

• Experience working within regulated financial services environments.

• Proven track record of leading products through periods of significant scale or platform modernization.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package with options for growth-company stock grants.

• Stock options featuring standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total.

• A $50 monthly stipend for communication expenses towards your phone/internet bill.

• A $250 stipend to enhance your work-from-home setup.

• Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard, and mouse (up to $200).

• Comprehensive medical benefits, including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees).

• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance.

• Paid parental bonding leave.

• Paid sick leave, jury duty, and bereavement leave.

• 401k plan.

• Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take around 3-4 weeks off annually).

• Volunteer Time Off.

• 13 scheduled holidays.