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Salary: USD 275,000 - 325,000 / annual
PayNearMe is seeking a Vice President of Product Management to lead the Payments & Money Movement portfolio, a critical business unit spanning payment acceptance and orchestration, risk and compliance, money movement and disbursements, settlement and reconciliation, and APIs that expose these capabilities to clients and partners.
Reporting to the Chief Product Officer, this leader will oversee multiple product teams responsible for Payments & Trust, Money Movement, and API capabilities. The mandate is both operational and transformational: drive execution across the existing portfolio while evolving the underlying payments platform to support PayNearMe's next stage of growth.
As the company scales, core capabilities must become increasingly reusable, configurable, and extensible across existing verticals, new markets, and future products without requiring one-off solutions. The portfolio also powers critical internal operations across Finance, Accounting, Risk, Compliance, and Operations, making strong cross-functional partnership essential as transaction volume and complexity grow.
Key responsibilities include:
- Own strategy, roadmap, and execution of the Payments & Money Movement portfolio
- Lead, coach, and develop experienced product leaders and their teams
- Balance near-term execution with investments in platform modernization and future growth
- Partner closely with Engineering leadership to scale and evolve PayNearMe's transactional platform
- Define the future of Smart Switch and payment orchestration across processors, rails, and payment methods
- Generalize core platform capabilities to support existing and future verticals
- Partner deeply with Finance, Accounting, Operations, Risk, and Compliance on operational needs at scale
- Drive product decisions that improve reliability, payment performance, operational efficiency, and economics
- Bring commercial perspective to platform strategy and identify expansion opportunities
- Serve as key member of Product Leadership Team and help shape broader product strategy
Success will be measured by improved execution and accountability across the portfolio, building a strong product leadership team, establishing a clear roadmap for platform scaling and modernization, advancing Smart Switch as a strategic capability, improving platform reliability and scalability, making core capabilities more reusable across products and verticals, strengthening Finance and Operations systems, advancing Risk and Compliance products, enabling faster introduction of new payment methods and verticals, and identifying opportunities that improve commercial value and economics.
PayNearMe is a payments platform company that has raised $50 million in Series E funding (September 2025) and operates with 300+ employees across 41 states, headquartered in Silicon Valley with offices in Dallas, TX and Holmdel, NJ. The platform handles cards, ACH, digital wallets (PayPal, Venmo, Cash App Pay, Apple Pay, Google Pay), and cash payments at 62,000+ retail locations nationwide, serving consumer lending, iGaming, online sports betting, property management, and tolling verticals.
REQUIREMENTS:
- 12+ years of product management experience, including significant experience in payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure
- 7+ years of progressive product leadership experience, including responsibility for multiple product teams and senior product leaders
- Deep payments experience with strong understanding of payment processing and money movement (gateways, acquiring, routing, card and ACH processing, settlement, reconciliation, disbursements)
- Demonstrated experience scaling, modernizing, or transforming a complex, high-volume transaction platform
- Experience leading products and teams through significant growth (increasing transaction volume, expanding platform capabilities, entering new markets, supporting new revenue streams)
- Strong track record partnering with senior Engineering leaders on technically complex platform investments and transformation efforts
- Demonstrated ability to balance execution of critical existing business with longer-term platform investment and modernization
- Strong commercial and business judgment, connecting product strategy and investment decisions to revenue growth, economics, and client value
- Experience developing strong product leaders and building teams that operate with increasing accountability and autonomy
- Strong executive communication and ability to operate effectively across Product, Engineering, Finance, Accounting, Operations, Risk, Compliance, and Revenue leadership
PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:
- Experience with multi-processor or multi-rail payment orchestration
- Experience with payment optimization, routing, or gateway products
- Experience with both pay-in and pay-out/disbursement capabilities
- Experience with payment risk, compliance, or financial controls
- Experience operating in regulated financial services environments
- Experience leading products through periods of significant scale or platform modernization
