# Senior Product Manager, Payments

**Company:** [Mercor](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/mercor)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $180k – $300k/yr
**Experience:** 6+ years
**Skills:** Payouts, Disbursements, Payment Rails, Ledger, Double-Entry Accounting, Reconciliation, Foreign Exchange, Kyc, Tax Compliance, Product Requirements Documents, Data Dashboards, User Research, SQL
**Posted:** 2026-08-25

> Own Mercor’s global payouts and disbursement platform, including ledger, reconciliation, payment rails, earnings, and operations tooling. The role requires 6+ years of product management experience, deep payout expertise, technical fluency, and strong cross-functional ownership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own the payout experience from contract terms and time capture through disbursement, retries, and support resolution.
- Partner with engineering on the ledger, reconciliation, and payout automation platform.
- Expand global payout rails, methods, and currencies while balancing cost, speed, reliability, and local regulations.
- Use payout cost, failure rates, support volume, and expert retention to prioritize product work.
- Write specifications and PRDs, build dashboards, investigate failed payouts, and make small code changes to unblock delivery.
- Collaborate with engineering, finance, compliance, operations, and support.

## Product Areas
- Global payouts and disbursement.
- Ledger and reconciliation.
- Contracts, rates, earnings, and expert payment visibility.
- Payments operations tooling.

## Requirements
- 6+ years of product management experience, including meaningful experience with payouts or disbursements.
- Working knowledge of payout rails, ledgers, double-entry accounting, reconciliation, foreign exchange, KYC, tax, and compliance requirements across markets.
- Strong ownership and accountability for outcomes.
- Ability to self-direct in ambiguous contexts.
- Technical fluency, including building scrappy MVPs, querying data, and reading code.
- Experience conducting user research with experts, operators, and finance partners.
- Ability to balance rigorous experimentation with long-term product vision.

## Nice-to-haves
- Prior software engineering, machine learning, or data science experience.

## Compensation & Benefits
- ATS salary range: $180000-$300000.
- Bi-annual performance bonus structure.
- Generous equity grant vested over 4 years.
- Up to $15k relocation bonus.
- $10K housing bonus for employees living within 0.5 miles of the office.
- $1.5K monthly meal stipend.
- Free Equinox membership.
- $200 monthly laundry reimbursement.
- $200 monthly personal wellness reimbursement.
- Health, dental, and vision insurance.

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