Vice President of Product Management (Payments & Money Movement) at PayNearMe

What You’ll Lead

Payments & Orchestration

Capabilities that enable clients and consumers to securely accept and process payments across multiple payment methods, processors, and rails, including:

• Payment capture across card, ACH, digital wallets, cash and emerging rails
• Smart Switch and payment routing/orchestration
• Payment performance and optimization

Risk & Compliance

Products that help clients and PayNearMe safely manage payment risk and regulatory requirements, including:

• Risk decisioning and controls
• Compliance capabilities
• Configurable operational and business rules

Money Movement & Disbursements

Capabilities responsible for moving, settling, and accounting for funds across the platform, including:

• Disbursements and funding
• Clearing and settlement
• Client and collector reconciliation
• Billing and pricing capabilities

APIs & Access

APIs and related platform capabilities that allow clients, partners, and PayNearMe products to securely integrate with and extend the payments platform.

What You’ll 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 PayNearMe’s transactional platform.
• Define the future of Smart Switch and payment orchestration across processors, rails, and payment methods.
• Generalize core platform capabilities so they can support existing and future verticals without requiring one-off solutions.
• Partner deeply with Finance, Accounting, Operations, Risk and Compliance to ensure the platform supports the operational needs of the business as we scale.
• Drive product decisions that improve reliability, payment performance, operational efficiency, and economics.
• Bring a commercial perspective to platform strategy, identifying opportunities to expand the value of PayNearMe’s payments and money movement capabilities.
• Partner across Product, Engineering, and Revenue teams to translate platform investments into measurable client and business outcomes.
• Serve as a key member of the Product Leadership Team and help shape PayNearMe’s broader product strategy and operating model.

What Success Looks Like

• Improve execution and accountability across the Payments & Money Movement portfolio.
• Build and develop a strong product leadership team capable of operating with increasing autonomy.
• Establish and execute a clear roadmap for scaling and modernizing the transactional platform.
• Advance Smart Switch as a strategic payment orchestration capability.
• Improve platform reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Make core capabilities more reusable across products and verticals, reducing the need for bespoke development as PayNearMe grows.
• Strengthen the products and systems Finance, Accounting and Operations rely on to manage money movement at scale.
• Advance our Risk and Compliance products to support clients, protect the platform, and enable growth.
• Enable faster introduction of new payment methods, products, capabilities, and verticals.
• Identify and advance opportunities that improve the commercial value and economics of the payments platform.

What We’re Looking For

• 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 across areas such as gateways, acquiring, routing, card and ACH processing, settlement, reconciliation, or disbursements.
• Demonstrated experience scaling, modernizing, or transforming a complex, high-volume transaction platform.
• Experience leading products and teams through significant growth, including increasing transaction volume, expanding platform capabilities, entering new markets, or supporting new revenue streams.
• Strong track record partnering with senior Engineering leaders on technically complex platform investments and transformation efforts.
• Demonstrated ability to balance execution of a critical existing business with longer-term platform investment and modernization.
• Strong commercial and business judgment, with experience connecting product strategy and investment decisions to revenue growth, economics, and client value.
• Experience developing strong product leaders and building teams that operate with increasing accountability and autonomy.
• Strong executive communication and ability to operate effectively across Product, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Revenue leadership.

Preferred Qualifications

• 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.