Caesars Entertainment

Senior Product Manager, Payments Processing

Caesars Entertainment

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Jersey City • New Jersey • United States

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

Distributed Systems

About the role

  • End-to-end ownership of the Payment Routing Engine and Intelligence Layer
  • Platform integration layer capabilities (API orchestration, connector framework, abstraction layers)
  • Routing logic based on cost, performance, user attributes, payment type, geography, and risk signals
  • Realtime failover and fallback capabilities to drive guaranteed payment completion
  • Partnering with Engineering to deliver a scalable, resilient, high availability payments platform
  • Ensure Payment Routing Engine and Intelligence Layer is compatible with the architecture and process flows with other areas including vendors, risk, intelligence and fraud
  • Own day‑to‑day product delivery for routing logic, processor integrations, and intelligence algorithms
  • Define the roadmap for the integration layer, routing engine, and optimization capabilities
  • Partner with Engineering on system design, architecture trade‑offs, and API requirements
  • Collaborate with Data Science to incorporate machine learning, scoring, or signal‑based routing
  • Conduct deep analysis on authorization declines, routing failures, and regional optimization gaps
  • Evaluate new payment processors, wallets, and banking partners for integration and remain an expert in the payments industry
  • Develop frameworks for routing experiments and multivariate routing logic
  • Ensure compliance and risk signals are embedded into routing and decision flows
  • Partner with internal teams to continuously refine routing rules, fallback paths, and error handling
  • Influence the platform strategy to enable scalability, global expansion, and modular payment integrations
  • Own the prioritization framework and process to balance business, engineering and stakeholder requirements

Requirements

  • 4–6+ years in Product Management with strong experience in payments, fintech, platform infrastructure, or API products
  • Hands‑on experience with payment processors, routing logic, or backend payment platforms
  • Familiarity with API-driven integrations, service-oriented architectures, or platform engineering
  • Experience working with Engineering, Data Science, and Payments Operations
  • Background in optimizing transactional systems or high-volume distributed systems a plus
  • Strong technical fluency — able to collaborate deeply with architects and engineers
  • Highly analytical with expertise in funnel metrics, performance optimization, and root‑cause analysis
  • Excellent communication skills capable of translating technical concepts into business impact
  • Comfortable making trade‑offs between latency, cost, reliability, and complexity
  • Owned and delivered on product roadmap
  • Strong stakeholder management across Payments, Fraud, Risk, and Compliance
  • Customer‑obsessed with a passion for reliability and seamless payment experiences
Benefits
  • medical, vision, and dental insurance
  • life insurance
  • disability insurance
  • a 401(k)-matching program
  • paid Flexible Time Off
  • paid company holidays
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
API orchestrationconnector frameworkrouting logicpayment processorsbackend payment platformsmachine learningperformance optimizationroot-cause analysistransactional systemshigh-volume distributed systems
Soft Skills
analytical skillscommunication skillsstakeholder managementcollaborationcustomer obsessiontrade-off decision makinginfluenceproblem-solvingstrategic thinkingadaptability