Payments Product Manager

**This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Payments Product Manager based in the United States.** This role offers the opportunity to shape the future of payment technology by owning product strategy, integrations, and certification initiatives. You will serve as a key subject matter expert in payments infrastructure, bridging business goals, technical requirements, and engineering execution. The position combines deep payments expertise with product leadership, requiring strong understanding of transaction networks, compliance standards, and emerging payment technologies. You will help define roadmaps, translate complex specifications into actionable requirements, and enable teams to deliver reliable payment solutions. Working closely with engineering, operations, certification teams, and external partners, you will influence products that support seamless payment experiences for businesses and customers. This is an ideal opportunity for a product leader who thrives in technical complexity, values precision, and enjoys solving challenging problems in a rapidly evolving industry. ### Accountabilities: As the Payments Product Manager, you will own the strategy, requirements, and roadmap for payment infrastructure initiatives. You will act as the connection point between payments teams, engineering, and the broader product organization, ensuring complex technical requirements are translated into scalable solutions. - Provide product leadership for payment transaction components, processor integrations, certification processes, and platform evolution. - Own processor integration and certification initiatives from initial requirements through testing, validation, and delivery. - Manage relationships with processors and card networks, representing the organization in technical, compliance, and operational discussions. - Monitor payment industry standards, compliance updates, and emerging technologies to identify opportunities and product requirements. - Serve as an internal payments expert on topics including EMV standards, certification requirements, payment methods, and integration architecture. - Manage multiple certification projects, integrations, and compliance initiatives while maintaining attention to detail. - Review technical documentation, processor specifications, and card network requirements to create clear engineering-ready requirements. - Translate complex payment standards into product requirements, user stories, and documentation for engineering teams. - Identify dependencies between new product features, payment integrations, and certification requirements. - Advocate for improvements such as authentication standards, network tokenization, and emerging payment capabilities. - Maintain and execute product roadmaps balancing certifications, integrations, compliance requirements, and platform enhancements. - Communicate roadmap decisions and priorities clearly across engineering, operations, and partner teams. - Coordinate launch readiness by ensuring documentation, testing, certification approvals, and engineering activities are completed successfully. - Collaborate closely with engineering teams through development cycles, including planning, refinement, reviews, and release validation. - Partner with operations teams to support documentation, training, and successful adoption of new payment capabilities. **Requirements:** The ideal candidate is an experienced product professional with deep expertise in payments infrastructure, processor integrations, and payment technology ecosystems. You should be comfortable navigating technical complexity, managing external partnerships, and translating industry requirements into effective product solutions. - 3+ years of product management experience in payments, with 5–10+ years preferred. - Proven experience managing payment infrastructure products, processor integrations, and certific…