Payments Lead

The role

The Payments Lead will own the full lifecycle of payments from strategy to hands-on execution. This role involves managing the roadmap for deposits, withdrawals, and PSP integrations while coordinating with product, operations, engineering, compliance, and growth.

What you will do

• Lead the payments roadmap and prioritize initiatives to improve success, speed, and user experience.
• Manage PSPs and financial partners by negotiating terms and overseeing performance.
• Optimize conversion and payouts through data-driven experimentation.
• Monitor and analyze payment health using dashboards and KPIs.
• Ensure compliance and regulatory alignment with Legal and Compliance.
• Manage fraud prevention and response tools and policies.
• Perform hands-on payment ops workflows, test integrations, and reconcile issues.

Required qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in payments, fintech, or product operations.
• Strong understanding of the payments ecosystem including PSPs, acquirers, processors, payment methods, fraud tools, and settlement processes.
• Experience leading cross-functional projects involving engineering, compliance, and growth.
• Proven negotiation and vendor management skills with PSPs and banks.
• Analytical and technical proficiency to model economics, analyze funnel data, and interpret API documentation.
• Bias toward action.
• Excellent communication and project management skills.

About the company

Kalshi has defined a new category of prediction markets. The company allows people to trade on the outcome of any events and turn questions about the future into financial assets.