We are looking for a Senior Product Manager with deep expertise in global payments, card acquiring, banking, issuance, merchant onboarding, fraud, and risk management. The ideal candidate will have experience building products within complex payment ecosystems and will be comfortable working across acquiring, issuing, banking, compliance, risk, and engineering teams.
This role requires a technically strong product leader who can engage deeply with engineering teams, understand payment infrastructure, APIs, integrations, data flows, risk systems, and make informed product decisions in highly regulated environments.
Global Payments Expertise
Strong understanding of the global payments ecosystem, including:
Card acquiring
Card issuing
Payment processing
Banking infrastructure
Merchant services
Payment gateways
Card network operations (Visa, Mastercard, Amex, etc.)
Experience shipping products across multiple regions such as North America, Europe, APAC, or LATAM.
Understanding of regional payment regulations, compliance requirements, and market-specific onboarding requirements.
Proven experience working within acquiring platforms, merchant acquiring, payment facilitators (PayFac), or merchant services organizations.
Deep understanding of:
Merchant onboarding
Underwriting
KYB/KYC
Merchant activation
Transaction monitoring
Chargeback and dispute management
Experience supporting enterprise merchants, SMBs, and marketplace sellers.
Strong knowledge of banking products and financial services infrastructure.
Experience working on card issuance programs, banking integrations, ledger systems, settlement, reconciliation, or related financial products.
Understanding of issuer-acquirer interactions and transaction lifecycle management.
Ability to work effectively with engineering teams on highly technical products.
Comfortable discussing:
APIs and integrations
System architecture
Payment processing workflows
Fraud and risk engines
Data models and event flows
Platform scalability and reliability
Able to translate complex business requirements into detailed product specifications and user stories.
Experience working closely with engineering during design reviews, solution discussions, sprint planning, and production launches.
Direct ownership of fraud, risk, and operational metrics, including:
Chargeback rates
Fraud-to-sales ratio
False positive rates
Authorization and approval rates
Experience with both rule-based fraud systems and machine learning-driven fraud models.
Ability to define fraud controls, risk policies, thresholds, and monitoring frameworks.
The ideal candidate is someone who:
Has built products in global payments, card acquiring, banking, or issuance environments.
Understands how money moves across the ecosystem from merchant to acquirer, card network, issuer, and settlement.
Has strong technical depth and credibility with engineering teams.
Has direct ownership of onboarding, fraud, risk, and payment-related product outcomes.
Operates comfortably in globally distributed organizations and collaborates effectively across multiple time zones.
Is highly analytical, detail-oriented, proactive, and data-driven.
RequirementsExperience Required
- 8–10 years of Product Management experience, preferably in FinTech, Payments, Banking, or Financial Services.
- Proven experience owning and delivering products across payments, card acquiring, merchant onboarding, fraud, risk, banking, or card issuance domains.
- At least 4–5 years of direct experience working with payment infrastructure, acquiring platforms, merchant services, payment gateways, or financial platforms.
- Demonstrated experience partnering closely with Engineering, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Data Science teams.
- Experience managing products across global markets, including North America, Europe, and/or APAC regions.
- Track record of launching and scaling complex platform products in regulated environments.
Skills Required
- 8-10 years of Product Management experience, preferably in FinTech, Payments, Banking, or Financial Services.
- Proven experience owning and delivering products across payments, card acquiring, merchant onboarding, fraud, risk, banking, or card issuance domains.
- At least 4-5 years of direct experience working with payment infrastructure, acquiring platforms, merchant services, payment gateways, or financial platforms.
- Strong understanding of global payments ecosystem including card acquiring, card issuing, payment processing, banking infrastructure, merchant services, and card network operations (Visa, Mastercard, Amex).
- Demonstrated experience partnering closely with Engineering, Risk, Compliance, Operations, and Data Science teams.
- Direct ownership of fraud, risk, and operational metrics (chargebacks, fraud-to-sales, false positive rates, authorization rates).
- Experience with both rule-based fraud systems and machine learning-driven fraud models.
- Experience shipping products across multiple regions (North America, Europe, APAC, or LATAM) and understanding regional payment regulations and compliance.
- Ability to translate complex business requirements into product specifications, user stories, and work closely during design reviews and launches.
- Comfortable operating in globally distributed organizations and collaborating across multiple time zones.
- Highly analytical, detail-oriented, proactive, and data-driven.
Priority (prioritycommerce) Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Priority (prioritycommerce) and has not been reviewed or approved by Priority (prioritycommerce).
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Healthcare Strength — Core coverage includes medical, dental, and vision, with added mental‑health support via Lyra. Feedback suggests these elements create a solid baseline rather than a bare‑bones package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with company match is part of the offering. Feedback suggests confirming match formula and vesting to understand the plan’s full value.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time‑off policies include unlimited PTO after the first year in many roles. Feedback suggests this flexibility is valued even as usage norms can differ by team.
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What We Do
Priority is for leaders who want to challenge tradition and drive impact, no matter their title or industry. We combine payables, merchant services, and banking and treasury solutions into one unified commerce engine — so leaders are primed to accelerate cash flow and optimize working capital.
