Staff Product Manager, Payments Orchestration & Intelligence

Responsibilities

• Lead Payment Orchestration: Define the roadmap for our AI Router and Grid Switch, building the intelligent pathfinding logic that optimizes for transaction success rates (TSR), latency, and cost.
• Scale Global Connectivity: Drive the expansion into domestic payment rails (e.g., SPEI, UPI, SEPA) and manage the technical and regulatory complexities of global interoperability.
• Own the "Closed Loop": Design the strategy for internal and customer-facing observability dashboards and automated reconciliation workflows to ensure institutional-grade financial integrity.
• Drive Vertical Innovation: Lead high-value customer engagements from initial scoping to deployment, owning the end-to-end delivery of feature sets like P2P/B2B payments and regional pay-in solutions.
• Negotiate Network Resilience: Partner with Business Development to engage with financial partners, negotiating limits and unlocking new feature expansions to ensure a robust, high-performance network.
• Future-Proof the Stack: Collaborate with Engineering to influence long-term architecture that supports emerging use cases, including Agentic Commerce and LLM-driven transaction flows.
• Maximize Impact with AI: Leverage AI and automation to accelerate product development lifecycles and enhance the efficiency of our ledger and routing capabilities.

Requirements

• Deep Payment Expertise: 7+ years of experience in global payment infrastructure. You have "under-the-hood" knowledge of funds flows and understand exactly how domestic rails settle.
• Technical & Strategic Fluency: You are equally comfortable collaborating with engineers on backend system architecture as you are navigating complex partner negotiations with Business Development.
• The "0 to 1" Mindset: You have a proven track record of bringing clarity to ambiguous environments and building scalable B2B solutions from scratch.
• AI-Native Builder: You effectively use AI tools to amplify your impact and possess a genuine curiosity for how rapidly changing technologies can be integrated into payment systems.
• Grit & Adaptability: You thrive in fast-paced startup environments and are ready to "roll up your sleeves" to solve detailed money movement challenges at scale.
• Systems Thinking: You obsess over edge cases, failure scenarios, and performance benchmarks (SLAs), ensuring our platform remains resilient under enterprise-grade volume.

Preferred: Familiarity with digital assets, the Lightning Network, or programmable money.