# Staff Product Manager, Payments Orchestration & Intelligence
**Company:** [Lightspark](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/lightspark)
**Location:** Culver City, CA, Los Angeles, CA
**Salary:** $220K-$257K
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** Ai Routing, Payment Rails, Rtp, Spei, Upi, Sepa, Observability Dashboards, Reconciliation Workflows, P2P Payments, B2B Payments, Lightning Network, LLMs, Agentic Commerce, Backend Architecture, Global Payments
**Posted:** 2026-04-06
> Leads strategy and roadmap for AI-powered payments orchestration, routing transactions across global networks to optimize success, cost, and speed. Drives customer engagements, platform scalability, and AI integration in a fast-paced fintech environment, requiring 7+ years in payments infrastructure.
## Job Description
## 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.
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