Director of Product Management, Payments

The role

You will lead the team building the payment network infrastructure that funds education between employers, Guild, and learning providers. You will own the multi-year strategy for payment modalities and lead a team of product managers.

What you will do

• Own the multi-year strategy for Guild's payment network.
• Lead, coach, and grow a team of product managers.
• Guide the team from concept through vendor selection, pilot, and scale.
• Set the expectation that the team builds and operates with AI where appropriate.
• Facilitate relationships with processors, card networks, and money movement partners.
• Partner with stakeholders on pricing, packaging, and business cases.
• Represent payments strategy in executive and leadership-level conversations.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Finance to set the governance framework.
• Drive the strategy for Guild's funding service.

Required qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience, including building payments products like card issuing, virtual cards, money movement, or B2B payment flows at a fintech, payments company, or platform comp
• 5+ years managing product managers.
• Fluency in the mechanics of card issuing and money movement and the vendor ecosystem.
• Demonstrated success setting and executing a multi-year payments strategy.
• Experience facilitating third-party vendor and network partnerships end to end.
• Comfort building and defending financial models.
• Ability to work with engineers on API design, integration architecture, and build-vs-buy trade-offs.
• Daily use of AI tools and a point of view on how they change product operations.

Nice to have

• Experience on a global scale.
• Experience with cross-border payments.

Benefits

• Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser
• Access to a 401k
• Vacation policy
• 8 days of fully-paid sick leave
• 12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents
• 18-20 weeks of parental leave for birthing parents
• 2-week ramp-up period for return from leave of 6 weeks or more
• Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability
• Employer-sponsored life insurance
• Fertility and caregiving benefits
• Free and low cost mental health resources and financial wellbeing support services
• Education benefits and tuition assistance

About the company

Guild is a female-founded, certified B Corp that helps employers identify, develop, and mobilize internal talent. The company partners with innovative employers to build a resilient workforce.