Director, Product Management - Payment Application Solutions

The role

The Director, Product Management owns the semi-integrated and fully integrated payment application portfolio for the North America region. This individual contributor role combines product management, product ownership, technical program management, and product commercialization.

What you will do

• Own the North America semi-integrated and fully integrated payment application portfolio and planning
• Organize and triage all demand intake into the portfolio
• Build and publish prioritized roadmaps each fiscal quarter
• Identify and escalate conflicts between competing commitments
• Maintain the operational plan and reporting apparatus for payment applications
• Partner with the L3 certification team to drive certification-impacting initiatives
• Write and own PRDs for material initiatives
• Support business analysts throughout the BRD process
• Serve as product owner for the payment application backlog
• Partner with engineering to define scope, requirements, milestones, and delivery sequencing

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in product management, technical program management, or a closely related technical product role within payments; Senior Director level or equivalent scope
• Hands-on expertise in card-present, in-store payment environments
• Deep working knowledge of both semi-integrated and fully integrated payment application architectures
• Direct experience with EMV certification
• Working knowledge of the processor and acquirer certification ecosystem
• Working familiarity with payment security and compliance frameworks relevant to in-store applications: PCI PTS, PCI DSS, P2PE, tokenization, and key management
• Experience with Android-based payment device platforms and the migration of legacy terminal application estates onto them
• Able to read and interrogate a technical specification, API contract, or integration guide
• Comfortable with API-level integration concepts, terminal SDKs, host/processor message specifications, and estate/device management tooling
• High fluency in Jira and Confluence
• Comfortable working with Salesforce pipeline data
• Strong Agile/Scrum experience operating as product owner across multiple concurrent scrum teams

Nice to have

• Direct familiarity with Verifone's payment application and platform portfolio
• Experience spanning payment gateway products and their interlock with terminal-resident applications
• Experience serving ISV and VAR channels alongside direct enterprise retail, QSR, and financial institution customers
• Experience managing product-side strategic partnerships with processors, acquirers, or platform partners
• Background in New Product Introduction and hardware/software readiness sequencing for regional launches
• Familiarity with cellular carrier certification for payment devices
• Exposure to MPoC/SoftPOS, mobile acceptance, or unattended and self-checkout payment environments
• Prior experience operating in a global product organization with regional go-to-market accountability
• Experience establishing product operations discipline

About the company

Verifone is one of the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide. The company has established a record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry for more than 30 years.