Senior Product Manager, Payments

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. Define and communicate product vision, strategy, value proposition, market positioning, and multi-year roadmap.

Posted 10/23/2026full-timeVancouver • CanadaSenior💰 CA$105,000 - CA$120,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product management within the payments industry, focusing on strategic vision, financial modeling, and stakeholder engagement. Capable of leading cross-functional teams to deliver customer-centric solutions while ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements.

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Product Management ExperiencePayments Industry KnowledgeExecutive Communication SkillsFinancial Analysis and ModelingCross-Functional Leadership

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Hard Skills

Product Strategy DevelopmentBusiness Case CreationPricing StrategyRisk ManagementData-Driven Decision MakingPortfolio ManagementVendor NegotiationSaaS Model ExperienceRegulatory ComplianceCustomer Adoption Strategies

Soft Skills

Influencing Without AuthorityNegotiation SkillsConflict ResolutionFacilitation SkillsCustomer Relationship Management

Industry Keywords

Payments EcosystemFinancial ServicesModernizationEmerging TechnologiesCustomer ExpectationsGovernance RequirementsCommercialization PlansOperational InsightsStrategic PartnershipsMarket Positioning

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and communicate product vision, strategy, value proposition, market positioning, and multi-year roadmap.
Translate corporate priorities, customer needs, payments industry developments, and regulatory requirements into product priorities and investment decisions.
Build and maintain integrated roadmaps connecting customer outcomes, capabilities, dependencies, funding, and delivery milestones.
Lead prioritization across initiatives and guide products through their full lifecycle.
Coordinate priorities and dependencies across products, platforms, programs, and strategic partners.
Build relationships with customers, credit unions, industry participants, vendors, networks, and strategic partners.
Lead customer discovery and use research, analytics, feedback, user testing, and operational insights to shape product direction.
Represent the organization in executive customer conversations, industry forums, conferences, advisory groups, and strategic partnerships.
Develop business cases, investment proposals, pricing strategies, commercialization plans, and funding recommendations.
Define and monitor product outcomes including revenue, cost-to-serve, margin, adoption, customer satisfaction, service performance, and ROI.
Partner with Finance and commercial teams on budgeting, forecasting, pricing, contract economics, and strategic planning.
Influence senior leaders and governance groups on product direction, priorities, investments, risks, and trade-offs.
Present strategies, roadmaps, business cases, performance insights, and recommendations to executive audiences.
Establish governance, decision rights, escalation paths, and outcome reporting.
Partner with Product Managers, Product Owners, architects, engineering, operations, and delivery teams to turn strategy into executable plans.
Guide scope, sequencing, feature priorities, minimum viable products, and customer or operational trade-offs.
Ensure solutions meet customer, business, operational, security, resilience, legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements.
Lead launch, migration, customer adoption, commercialization, and post-launch optimization readiness.
Track product and delivery outcomes and address issues when objectives or benefits are at risk.
Manage product risks and strategic vendor and partner relationships.
Evaluate build, buy, partner, managed service, and platform options.
Mentor Product Managers and Product Owners and strengthen outcome-focused product practices.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Significant product management experience within payments or financial services, with a strong understanding of payment products, platforms, industry participants, and the broader payments ecosystem.
Experience navigating change within the payments industry, including modernization, emerging technologies, evolving customer expectations, and regulatory requirements.
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional initiatives and influencing senior stakeholders without direct authority.
Experience developing and presenting business cases, investment proposals, financial models, and executive recommendations.
Strong commercial, financial, analytical, and data-driven decision-making skills.
Ability to connect enterprise strategy and customer needs with commercial considerations, technical constraints, and delivery execution.
Strong executive communication, presentation, negotiation, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills.
Experience managing complex product risks, dependencies, vendors, partners, and governance requirements.
Experience managing a portfolio of products or services through legacy modernization and future-state transformation.
Experience with pricing strategy, go-to-market planning, vendor selection, commercial negotiations, and managed service or SaaS models.
Post-secondary education in business, technology, finance, engineering, or a related discipline, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Work-life flexibility
Hybrid work environment
Variable annual incentive plan
Generous annual vacation allotment
Top-notch flexible benefits plan including family building and gender affirmation
Retirement Plan, matched contributions at 6%
Access to a learning platform and educational assistance support
Access to a virtual wellness platform
Career development opportunities
Wellness Flex Fund to support personal interest and activities
Day off to volunteer in your community and other paid time off options
Corporate discounts