Versapay

Senior Product Manager, Payments

Versapay

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Canada

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Salary

💰 CA$160,000 - CA$190,000 per year

Job Level

Senior

About the role

  • Own and articulate a clear product vision and strategy for payments, aligned with company objectives and growth plans.
  • Take a holistic view of the end-to-end payments experience, ensuring customer, operational, and platform considerations are tightly integrated.
  • Define and evolve the payments roadmap, balancing customer needs, regulatory requirements, operational scalability, and commercial outcomes.
  • Stay current on industry trends, emerging payment methods, and competitive offerings to inform strategy and prioritization.
  • Identify opportunities for cross-product alignment, standardization, and platform unification across the broader product portfolio.
  • Lead payments products through the full product development lifecycle, from discovery and ideation through launch and continuous improvement.
  • Partner closely with engineering and design to translate customer problems into well-defined requirements, epics, and user stories.
  • Prioritize the product backlog based on customer impact, business value, and technical feasibility.
  • Drive high-quality execution across multiple workstreams while maintaining a strong bias toward action.
  • Serve as the subject-matter expert for payments, including payment gateways, processors, payment facilitators, settlement, and funding flows.
  • Own integrations and relationships with major processors and partners (e.g., Adyen, Fiserv, Global Payments).
  • Ensure products are built with a strong understanding of payments operations, risk, compliance, and scalability.
  • Help shape the future of our payments infrastructure to support global growth.
  • Be the expert on the customer: deeply understand who is using our payments products, what problems they are trying to solve, and how success is measured.
  • Conduct market research, customer interviews, and data analysis to identify opportunities and validate solutions.
  • Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success across adoption, revenue, reliability, and customer outcomes.
  • Use product analytics, customer feedback, and operational data to inform prioritization and identify areas for improvement.
  • Present product strategy, progress, and performance to senior leadership and executive stakeholders.
  • Lead and influence cross-functional teams across engineering, design, sales, marketing, professional services, and customer success.
  • Act as the primary point of contact for payments products, aligning internal teams and external partners around shared goals.
  • Facilitate agile ceremonies and ensure teams are focused on delivering the highest-impact outcomes.
  • Partner with go-to-market teams to define value propositions, pricing inputs, and launch strategies for payments capabilities.
  • Create internal and customer-facing documentation, training materials, and presentations to support successful launches.
  • Drive adoption and ongoing success of payments products post-launch.
  • Foster a high-performance, collaborative culture focused on customer value and continuous improvement.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in product management
  • Proven experience building, launching, and scaling payments or fintech products.
  • Strong understanding of payments ecosystems, including gateways, processors, payment facilitators, and settlement flows.
  • Demonstrated ability to communicate product strategy and results to senior leadership, including experience presenting to executive audiences.
  • Experience working with cross-functional teams in an agile development environment.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate business strategy into clear product direction and execution.
  • Strong analytical mindset with experience using data to inform decisions.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to distill complexity for technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent practical experience.
  • MBA or advanced degree is a plus.
  • Experience with product and delivery tools such as Jira and product analytics platforms (e.g., Heap, Mixpanel, Amplitude).
  • Comfort working with APIs, data, and complex systems at scale.
Benefits
  • Health insurance
  • 401(k) matching
  • Flexible work hours
  • Paid time off
  • Remote work options
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
product managementpayments product developmentdata analysisagile methodologiesproduct strategyKPI trackingAPI integrationpayments ecosystemcustomer feedback analysismarket research
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationleadershipanalytical mindsetproblem-solvingpresentation skillscustomer focusstrategic thinkingadaptabilityteam facilitation
Certifications
Bachelor's degreeMBA or advanced degree