Vice President, Product (Payments & Money Movement)

The role

The Vice President of Product will lead the Payments & Money Movement portfolio. This leader will oversee product teams responsible for payments, risk, compliance, money movement, and APIs to drive execution and platform modernization.

What you will do

• Own the strategy, roadmap and execution of the Payments & Money Movement portfolio.
• Lead, coach and develop experienced product leaders and their teams.
• Drive near-term execution while balancing investments in platform modernization and future growth.
• Partner closely with Engineering leadership to scale and evolve the transactional platform.
• Define the future of Smart Switch and payment orchestration.
• Generalize core platform capabilities for existing and future verticals.
• Partner with Finance, Accounting, Operations, Risk and Compliance to support operational needs.
• Drive product decisions to improve reliability, performance, efficiency and economics.
• Bring a commercial perspective to platform strategy.
• Partner across Product, Engineering and Revenue teams to translate investments into outcomes.

Required qualifications

• 12+ years of product management experience, including significant experience in payments, fintech or financial infrastructure.
• 7+ years of progressive product leadership experience, including responsibility for multiple product teams and senior product leaders.
• Deep payments experience with a strong understanding of payment processing and money movement.
• Demonstrated experience scaling, modernizing or transforming a complex, high-volume transaction platform.
• Experience leading products and teams through significant growth.
• Strong track record partnering with senior Engineering leaders on technically complex platform investments.
• Demonstrated ability to balance execution of a critical existing business with longer-term platform investment and modernization.
• Strong commercial and business judgment.
• Experience developing strong product leaders and building teams.
• Strong executive communication and ability to operate effectively across multiple leadership functions.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-processor or multi-rail payment orchestration.
• Experience with payment optimization, routing or gateway products.
• Experience with both pay-in and pay-out / disbursement capabilities.
• Experience with payment risk, compliance or financial controls.
• Experience operating in regulated financial services environments.
• Experience leading products through periods of significant scale or platform modernization.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits with growth-company options grant
• Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total
• $50 monthly communication expense stipend
• $250 stipend to enhance WFH setup
• Premium 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, bereavement
• 401k plan
• Flexible Time Off
• Volunteer Time Off
• 13 scheduled holidays

About the company

PayNearMe builds technology to simplify paying and getting paid through its PayXM platform. The company has over 300 employees and is headquartered in Silicon Valley.