Group Product Manager, Payments Core

What you'll do

• Own the multi-year product vision and strategy for Payment Core, encompassing core payment processing, payment method integrations (ACH, cards, bank transfers), multi-partner infrastructure, and payment lifecycle management.
• Drive optimization of core payment funnels to improve success rates, reduce transaction costs, and increase the percentage of transaction-ready payment methods across Coinbase's global footprint.
• Lead the strategy and execution for multi-partner payments infrastructure, enabling processing partner routing, redundancy, and failover to maximize reliability and cost efficiency.
• Partner with Engineering to shape system architecture, API design, and technical roadmap for payment processing systems at scale, while collaborating cross-functionally with Finance, Treasury, Compliance, Legal, and adjacent platform teams.
• Build self-serve capabilities that enable Product Groups to leverage Payment Core without heavy integration overhead, unblocking growth across Coinbase's product surface.
• Shape Payment Core's response to evolving regulatory requirements and emerging payment rails (real-time payments, open banking, FedNow), ensuring compliant-by-default systems that keep pace with industry dynamics.

Required Skills and Experience

• 10+ years of product management experience, with deep expertise in payments infrastructure, payment processing, or fintech platforms.
• Track record of owning and driving product strategy for large-scale payment processing systems, including building or scaling payment rails, bank/network integrations, routing/processing systems, or payment method platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to lead complex, cross-functional initiatives in highly regulated environments, with fluency across the intersection of product, engineering, finance, compliance, and operations.
• Proven ability to engage deeply with engineering on system architecture, APIs, reliability engineering, and distributed systems for payment processing at scale.
• Experience leading through influence, driving alignment across engineering, finance, compliance, and business stakeholders, and articulating complex platform strategy and investment tradeoffs to senior and executive leadership.
• Utilizes generative AI responsibly, maintaining human oversight to deliver business-ready outputs and drive measurable improvements in workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.