Senior Product Manager, Payments Gateway

Versapay

. Own the gateway strategy and roadmap across card, bank, and alternative payment methods .

Posted 10/28/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $160,000 - $180,000 per yearWebsite

Core Competencies

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in payment gateway strategy, architecture, and compliance, with a strong focus on authorization flows, processing optimization, and cross-functional collaboration. Proven ability to lead engineering teams and drive measurable improvements in payment success metrics across global markets.

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Payment Gateway ManagementAuthorization Flow OptimizationPCI DSS ComplianceEngineering Team LeadershipGlobal Payments Experience

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Hard Skills

Payment ProcessingAPI DevelopmentTokenizationChargeback ManagementISO 8583Multi-Currency ProcessingLLM ApplicationMachine LearningSDK DevelopmentWebhooks

Soft Skills

Entrepreneurial MindsetAction-OrientedComfortable with AmbiguityCollaborationProblem-Solving

Tools & Technologies

Payment GatewaysERP SystemsPayment Orchestration PlatformsMerchant Configuration ToolsIncident Triage Systems

Industry Keywords

FintechPayment MethodsDecline AnalysisProcessing CostSettlementRegulatory ComplianceCard Brand RulesPSD2/SCATransaction Data HandoffRisk Management

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

ERPSDLC

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the gateway strategy and roadmap across card, bank, and alternative payment methods
Drive authorization and payment success rates, decline and retry performance, uptime, latency, and processing cost
Define gateway APIs, SDKs, hosted payment pages, webhooks, and merchant/MID configuration
Lead evaluation, certification, and launch of processor and acquirer integrations and network capabilities
Translate network specifications and mandates into requirements and maintain compliance with card brand rules, PCI DSS, and regional regulations
Own authorization, capture, refunds, voids, disputes, chargebacks, settlement, and transaction-data handoff to ledger and reconciliation
Partner with risk, compliance, and payment operations
Lead engineering teams and oversee execution across pods, including requirements, architecture, reliability, platform design, SDLC, and success measurement
Apply ML and agentic approaches to retry optimization, decline analysis, anomaly detection, incident triage, and partner integration support
Serve as the in-house authority on gateway architecture, payment processing, and network rules; educate teams, brief executives, and represent the platform externally
Collaborate with engineering, go-to-market teams, processing partners, developers, ERP partners, ledger teams, and finance teams

Requirements

What you’ll need

6+ years in payments or fintech product management, with at least 3 years owning a payment gateway, processing, orchestration, or PSP platform end to end
Built or significantly scaled a gateway; shipped gateway capabilities in production rather than only integrating a third-party gateway
Deep expertise in authorization flows, ISO 8583, tokenization, capture and settlement, chargebacks, interchange, and failover
Demonstrated measurable improvement in authorization rates, processing cost, uptime, or latency
Global payments experience across North America and international markets, including multi-currency processing and local payment methods
Knowledge of PCI DSS, PSD2/SCA, and card brand rules
Track record of leading engineering pods or squads as product owner, setting priorities, removing blockers, making architectural trade-offs, and shipping commitments
Hands-on experience applying LLMs, ML, or agentic systems to payment workflows
Entrepreneurial, action-oriented, comfortable with ambiguity, and energized by new initiatives