Senior Product Manager, Payments

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Senior Product Manager building payments and money-movement infrastructure for Tapcheck’s on-demand pay platform. Driving payment rails, payouts, reconciliation, risk, and fraud initiatives.

Responsibilities:

  • Own product definition for money-movement capabilities from problem definition through requirements, technical design, launch, and iteration
  • Pressure-test requirements and designs across Payments, Repayments, Card, Orchestration, Payouts, Settlements/Reconciliation, and Risk & Fraud
  • Identify missing requirements, edge cases, conflicting assumptions, and unresolved product decisions
  • Partner with Engineering to create PRDs, functional requirements, workflows, state transitions, API requirements, acceptance criteria, and launch criteria
  • Analyze transaction-level payment states, processor responses, retries, returns, failures, reconciliation issues, and operational exceptions
  • Define platform flows across funding, authorization, debit/credit, processing, settlement, payout, recovery, and exceptions
  • Collaborate with Risk, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Data, Operations, and Engineering on product decisions
  • Drive Risk, Payouts, and related Money Movement initiatives
  • Use data and operational signals to measure payment success/failure, loss, recovery, payout performance, reconciliation breaks, cost, and operational volume
  • Surface risks and unresolved decisions, make recommendations, and drive issues to resolution
  • Manage backlog refinement, requirements reviews, prioritization, stakeholder alignment, launch readiness, and post-launch iteration
  • Flex across Platform workstreams as priorities evolve
  • Report to the Senior Director of Product, Platform

Requirements:

  • 8+ years in product management
  • Substantial hands-on experience in payments, money movement, financial infrastructure, fintech, or risk
  • Direct ownership and shipment of payment or money-movement products and flows
  • Deep expertise in at least one payments or money-movement domain
  • Experience with payment rails, processors, banks, or PSPs such as ACH, RTP, card networks/processors, or bank payment infrastructure
  • Ability to translate ambiguous problems into engineering-ready product requirements and work closely with engineers through implementation
  • Strong technical fluency in transaction lifecycles, state machines, APIs, events/webhooks, retries, idempotency, processor integrations, reconciliation, settlement, and failure handling
  • Experience using payment, risk, financial, or operational metrics for product decisions
  • Ability to operate with high autonomy and incomplete information
  • Effective written and in-person communication across Engineering, Risk, Legal/Compliance, Finance, Data, and Operations
  • Candidates must already have the right to work in the United States without current or future employment-based visa sponsorship
  • Remote availability in Central or Pacific time zones
  • Agency and third-party staffing submissions will not be considered

Benefits:

  • Competitive contract rate commensurate with experience
  • Option to extend the initial 90-day contract based on performance and business need
  • Mission-driven work improving financial wellness and access to earned wages
  • Professional and personal growth environment
  • Equal employment opportunity and non-discrimination protections