Staff Product Manager – Payments

Nium

Staff Product Manager leading programmable account-to-account payments at Nium. Owning product strategy and implementation quality needed to scale Direct Debit globally.

Posted 6/6/2026full-timeSan Francisco • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $154,000 - $205,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Lead one of Nium's most strategic product areas: programmable account-to-account payments.
Own product strategy, customer proposition, go-to-market execution, market expansion, and implementation quality needed to scale Direct Debit globally.
Create implementation-ready product plans, testing strategies, launch plans, and technical artifacts with minimal dependency on others.
Improve customer and internal workflows related to failed payments, returns, settlement delays, mandate issues, reconciliation gaps, compliance reviews, and exception handling.
Move from reactive escalation management to scalable, intelligent workflows.

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years of experience in Product Management, Technical Product Management, Payments Infrastructure, Fintech Infrastructure, Banking Infrastructure, or related fields.
Deep understanding of money movement, account-to-account payments, settlement, returns, reconciliation, risk, compliance, and payment partner ecosystems.
Experience building API-first products, platform products, financial infrastructure products, or technically complex B2B solutions.
Ability to work across customer conversations, market research, product analytics, technical documentation, logs, code, tickets, and partner documentation to drive high-quality decisions and execution.
Experience partnering with enterprise customers, Sales, Solutions Engineering, Engineering, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Support teams.
Strong ownership mentality and written communication skills.
Comfort operating in fast-moving, ambiguous environments.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Medical coverage
24/7 employee assistance program
Generous vacation programs
Year-end shutdown
Flexible hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office)
Role-specific training
Internal workshops
Learning stipend
Company-wide social events
Team bonding activities
Happy hours
Team offsites

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Hard Skills & Tools

Product ManagementTechnical Product ManagementPayments InfrastructureFintech InfrastructureBanking InfrastructureAPI-first productsPlatform productsFinancial infrastructure productsB2B solutionsMarket research

Soft Skills

Ownership mentalityWritten communication skillsAbility to work across teamsComfort in ambiguous environments