Senior Product Manager, Payments

🇺🇸In-Person - San Francisco1mo ago

K-12 Product Product Management Payments Fintech Platform Development Customer Discovery

Role Snapshot

Own the payments product for a Series B fintech platform processing $3B+ annually, consolidating legacy integrations into a clean, reliable system while working closely with customers and engineering. This role combines product strategy, fintech partnership management, and hands-on customer collaboration at a high-growth edtech/marketplace company backed by a16z and Goldman Sachs.

Key Responsibilities: Lead the payments product roadmap across banking, cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, payroll, and billing platforms; manage integrations and reconciliation across fintech partners; spend significant time with customers understanding payment workflows; partner daily with engineering to build and iterate; own metrics from integration reliability to customer outcomes.

Skills & Tools: Strong payments and fintech background with exceptional attention to detail and finance acumen; comfortable with regulatory compliance around payments and banking; hands-on approach with bias toward action; ability to work independently with AI tools and navigate complex technical integrations.

Qualifications: Senior PM with proven payments product experience; background in fintech or financial services strongly preferred; comfortable working in regulated environments and managing complex system integrations.

Location: In-Person - San Francisco

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation for this role is $180,000 – $240,000/year based on senior product manager title, payments/fintech specialization, Series B stage, and San Francisco location.

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Job Description

Senior Product Manager, Payments

Location: San Francisco (Rincon Hill)

Company Overview

Mission: Make high-quality early childhood education accessible to all by empowering childcare providers with tools and support while helping parents find quality learning environments.

What We're Building: A category-defining platform at the intersection of marketplace, SaaS, and public sector systems, increasingly powered by AI. Series B backed by a16z, Goldman Sachs, and First Round.

The Role

Own our payments product alongside a small, dedicated team. Our platform processes at least $3 billion in payment volume. We move money across a lot of surfaces (banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, and payroll), we run our own billing platform, and we lean on third-party partners for most of our fintech capabilities, so much of this is integration, orchestration, and tracking work. There is a lot to build here. You will consolidate a system built across many legacy integrations into something clean, reliable, and fast, and you will spend a lot of time directly with customers.

What You'll Do

Own the payments product roadmap with a dedicated payments team: banking, cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, payroll, and our billing platform
Consolidate and simplify a payments platform assembled from many legacy system integrations
Work hands-on with the fintech partners who power most of our payment capabilities, and own the integration and reconciliation/tracking layer across them
Spend significant time with customers to understand how money actually moves for them and where it breaks
Partner daily with engineering to build, ship, measure, and iterate
Navigate the laws and regulations governing payments and financial services
Own your metrics end to end, from integration reliability to customer outcomes

Who You Are

Senior PM with a strong payments background (fintech a plus)
Exceptionally high attention to detail; strong finance background is a plus
Excited to be close to the build and close to customers, not managing from a distance
Likes working on a small team and moving fast; bias toward action
Comfortable with the regulatory landscape around payments, banking, and cards
Uses AI tools and figures things out independently