The Role
The Senior Director will drive product innovation and market expansion for Nium's global payments platform, leading product managers and collaborating across teams to ensure growth and adoption.
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About Nium
Nium is the leading global infrastructure for real-time cross-border payments. We were founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today. Our platform enables banks, fintechs, and global businesses to move money instantly, everywhere.
Co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore with offices in 14 markets worldwide, we are entering one of the most exciting chapters in our journey. In July 2025, we delivered the largest month in our 10-year history with record revenue, record volumes, and EBITDA profitability. Today, Nium moves nearly $50B in payments annually, almost entirely for enterprises, while continuing to strengthen an already healthy balance sheet.
It is an incredible time to join us, and we are only just getting started.
Our payout network spans 190+ countries and 100 currencies, with 100 corridors in real time. We power seamless transfers to accounts, wallets, and cards, support local collections in 35 markets, and run a card issuance business live in 34 countries. Backed by regulatory licenses in more than 40 markets, we make it simple for our partners to onboard, integrate, and scale globally. This scale and innovation have earned us recognition as one of CNBC’s World’s Top Fintech Companies 2025, winner of Best Cross-Border Payments Solution at the PayTech Awards, and inclusion in FXC Intelligence’s Top 100 Cross-Border Payments Companies list.
In 2024, we raised US$50 million in Series E funding at a US$1.4 billion valuation to accelerate network expansion, product innovation, and talent growth. With the B2B payments market projected to hit US$175 trillion by 2030, Nium offers ambitious builders the chance to shape the future of global money movement with the scale of a leader and the energy of a high-growth company.
About the role
We are seeking a Senior Director of Product Management – Americas & Strategic Segments to drive product innovation, market expansion, and adoption for our global payments platform. This role blends hands-on product ownership with leadership across global teams, ensuring our platform delivers for both strategic customer segments (banks, payroll providers, AP platforms, marketplaces, gig economy) and priority markets (Brazil, Mexico, US, Canada).
As a senior leader, you will guide a team of product managers while working closely with engineering, compliance, operations, and commercial teams across multiple regions. Success in this role means setting clear priorities, building scalable solutions, and delivering measurable adoption and growth — while ensuring alignment across product and tech teams globally.
Responsibilities
- Own product strategy & roadmap for strategic customer segments and Americas markets, balancing global vision with local execution.
- Guide and develop product managers, fostering a culture of accountability, collaboration, and delivery.
- Deliver segment-ready solutions by combining APIs, compliance features, network coverage, and UI components (e.g., hosted onboarding, split payments, direct rails).
- Shape market entry & expansion across Brazil, Mexico, US, and Canada, working closely with engineering, compliance, and partnerships to launch new rails and meet regulatory requirements.
- Drive adoption & measurable impact: deliver segment growth, client activation on new features, and revenue/volume expansion in the Americas.
- Champion client needs: represent the product with Americas clients, ecosystem partners, and regulators, while ensuring feedback is embedded into the global roadmap.
- Align global teams around outcomes: ensure product, tech, and regional stakeholders are working toward shared goals and execution milestones.
- Track and report progress: maintain clear visibility on adoption, market penetration, and delivery of high-priority initiatives.
Requirements
- 12–18 years in fintech, payments, or B2B platforms, with proven leadership in product management.
- Experience leading teams of product managers and influencing engineering and commercial counterparts across multiple regions.
- Strong record of delivering end-to-end product lifecycles for payments/APIs across banks, payroll, AP platforms, or marketplaces.
- Deep understanding of Americas payments infrastructure & regulatory frameworks (e.g., Brazil PIX, Mexico SPEI/Cobre, US/Canada rails).
- Skilled at operating in a matrixed global environment, aligning product and tech teams toward shared outcomes.
- Executive communicator, trusted to represent product with clients, regulators, and C-suite stakeholders.
What we offer at Nium
We Value Performance: Through competitive salaries, performance bonuses, sales commissions, equity for specific roles and recognition programs, we ensure that all our employees are well rewarded and incentivized for their hard work.
We Care for Our Employees: The wellness of Nium’ers is our #1 priority. We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down. We also provide a flexible working hybrid working environment (3 days per week in the office).
We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves. We provide role-specific training, internal workshops, and a learning stipend.
We Celebrate Together: We recognize that work is also about creating great relationships with each other. We celebrate together with company-wide social events, team bonding activities, happy hours, team offsites, and much more!
We Thrive with Diversity: Nium is truly a global company, with more than 33 nationalities, based in 18+ countries and more than 10 office locations. As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.
For more detailed region specific benefits : https://www.nium.com/careers#careers-perks
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The Company
What We Do
Nium is an advanced payments platform redefining the way consumers and businesses send, spend, and receive funds across borders. Nium’s goal is to make the movement of money seamless through being a universal plug for financial services. The company uses agile, elegant, and modular solutions for complex business problems. Be it an Individual, new-age digital bank, or a traditional industry behemoth, Nium prides itself on creating financial infrastructure for every level of sophistication.
Nium’s key solutions:
• Pay-ins
• Pay-outs
• Card issuance
• Banking-as-a-service
• Crypto-as-a-service
We are a global leader in B2B modern money movement
• Launched the world’s first global platform for crypto-as-a-service
• $280M Funding
• Series D
• $2B Valuation
o 130+M End customers
o 190+ Payout markets
o 100+ Supported currencies
• Named on CB Insight’s Fintech 250 List
• Financial Times’ List of Asia-Pacific High-Growth Companies 2021
• Fintech Employer of the Year’ at the 2021 Singapore Fintech Festival
• Best B2B Payment Platform’ at the 2021 Future Digital Awards
Why Work With Us
We, at Nium, are on a mission to transform modern money movement. We are driven by our co-created values of "seek the simple", "make it better" and "win it together".
These aren't just buzzwords; they're how we do business every day and owned by each and every employee at Nium. We create new rules and new possibilities for a world of open money.
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