Product Manager, Payment Messaging

VGS

4d•$180,000 - $260,000•Hybrid

About The Position

We are seeking a Product Manager to help drive the evolution of our payments & banking technology. This is a role for a high-agency leader who thrives on technical complexity and demands perfection from their systems. You won't just build features; you will envision new ways of looking at decades-old problems, manage sophisticated relationships and product enhancements with industry experts, and help create the technical foundation on top of which the payments world is built. In this role, you will work across the payments and banking industry to deliver products in the service of technologists on both sides of the network. This includes creating products in the realm of payments messaging, processor integration management, legacy system modernization, security, and compliance. You will need to understand users, products, and business needs to define new capabilities in our payments messaging offerings. We seek a curious, tech-minded, and highly resourceful PM who can build and iterate solutions that are understood by both bankers and the engineers who build the system. You must be willing to drive technical rigor at the lowest level.

Requirements

10+ years of experience in payments technology as a software engineer, product manager, or related functions.
Must have experience launching new initiatives that involve designing and building APIs, O11y, private networking, enterprise authentication systems, and other software developer-related technologies.
Deep experience working in banking and/or payments gateways in a way that is either directly interacting with the networks or the acquirer/issuer processors.
Experience working with AS/400 servers, ISO8583, ISO20022, and similar technologies.
Broad proficiency across the payments ecosystem. This includes DUKPT encryption for terminal/ATM messages, EBCDIC encoding, ISO8583 messaging, observability, and modern software development.
Deep knowledge related to one of these technologies in a way that is pertinent to payments messaging.
Strong, well-founded opinions on software architecture.
Willingness to advocate for systems that can be operationalized via configuration by an implementation/product team such that software systems do not require engineers to make minor changes on a per-implementation basis.
Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills are required to be successful in this role.
Ability to write technical documentation that is ready to be published online and that can be included in technical RFP presentations.
Love designing and building.
Ability to break down problem sets into conceptual "building blocks" and solve the meta problem.
View technical blockers as the list of steps that need to be taken in order to accomplish the goal.
Energy and a "can-do" spirit to tackle difficult modernization challenges.

Nice To Haves

Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products
BA/BS degree
A knack for out-of-the-box thinking that thrives in a fast-paced startup environment
Experience working with GTM teams to bring new products to market.
Experience working in the payments/data tokenization space directly.

Responsibilities

Meet with banks, processors, customers, partners, and engineering leaders to map complex technical problems to business needs.
Define technical requirements, prioritize features, and create roadmaps that align with business objectives.
Manage complex implementation rollouts that span multiple continents to modernize banking, acquiring, and similar use-cases.
Ideate a sophisticated and configurable developer-friendly product interface that supports payments technologists, customer implementation specialists, and the business stakeholders that manage the finances. This interface will be used to interpret ISO8583, ISO20022, and similar messaging formats over a wide-array of protocols.
Understand, integrate with, and build on top of the pre-existing products, platforms, and concepts within the VGS ecosystem.