# Senior Product Manager II

**Company:** [VSCO](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/vsco)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Role:** Product Management
**Salary:** $150k – $175k/yr
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Product Management, creator economy, monetization design, payout infrastructure, stripe connect, paypal payouts, kyc, payment infrastructure, AI Tools, Product Strategy, 0 to 1 product development
**Posted:** 2026-07-28

> Senior Product Manager responsible for building VSCO's Economy platform to help photographers monetize their work. Define strategy, validate opportunities, and deliver payout infrastructure and new business lines in the creator economy.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Set the strategic direction and roadmap for VSCO Economy
- Deeply understand the workflows, businesses, and economic needs of professional and aspiring photographers
- Oversee delivery of innovative products and workflows that ensure successful outcomes for our users and for VSCO
- Identify high-potential opportunities and lead discovery efforts to rapidly validate problems, willingness to pay, and business viability
- Regularly speak with existing and potential customers to gather insights and inform direction
- Actively uses AI tools to accelerate research, spec writing, data analysis, and decision-making
- Build lightweight prototypes or automations using AI-assisted no-code tools to quickly specify and test hypotheses
- Create clarity in ambiguous problem spaces and influence executive stakeholders through strong strategic thinking and communication
- Be ruthless about scope and priority, even when flooded from multiple angles
- Help shape future business lines for VSCO
- Collaborate with cross functional partners to ensure cohesion across the overall VSCO experience

## Requirements
- 5-8 years as a full-time Product Manager with experience building for the creator economy
- Strong systems thinking and 0 → 1 product experience that made a difference for your customer and drove business growth
- Strategic judgement on monetization design and can reason through take-rate tradeoffs
- Experience building payout infrastructure (Stripe Connect, PayPal Payouts, or similar), not just checkout
- Delivered infrastructure heavy work, not just UI-layer features, and can go deep with engineering on payment infra reliability requirements
- Previous exposure and understanding of KYC and the compliance side of payouts – you know what questions to bring to legal and finance and can deeply partner with them on possible solutions
- A strong grasp of product strategy. You can define it, get buy-in from leadership, and motivate cross-functional teams to make that strategy a success
- Superb spoken and written communication skills. You are a compelling storyteller that can digest a very complex product and problems and break them down to the entire company in easy to understand ways
- You move fast, have high level of personal ownership, and are a natural instigator
- You’re a strong partner to cross-functional teammates – understanding when it’s right to collaborate vs lead
- You’re a great prioritizer, have strong instincts when it comes to what matters, and have experience making tough but smart trade-offs. You care about outcomes and output
- You thrive in fast-paced startup environments where being comfortable with ambiguity and being resourceful are critical skills

## Nice-to-Haves
- A deep understanding of photography and/or creative tooling industries
- AI native product practices - You use AI tools by default in your own workflow
- Founder-like levels of accountability

## Compensation and Benefits
- Base salary range: $150,000 - $175,000
- Competitive equity (stock options)
- Bonuses
- Healthcare insurance, vision, dental insurance for employees and families
- Flexible Time Off
- Company-paid parental, medical and caregiver leave
- 401K retirement plan
- 11 paid holidays
- Paid sick time as required by state and local law
- Additional benefits and perks

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