Product Manager (Payments)

Solidgate

About The Position

Solidgate is seeking a Product Manager to own backend-driven products within the Payments direction. This role involves taking full ownership of products such as the Tokenization system, Payment processing and orchestration, MPI / payment authentication, or Payment method and bank orchestration. The Product Manager will be responsible for driving execution, running discovery, owning planning and prioritization, leading cross-functional teams, setting standards for product craft, and measuring and improving product outcomes. This role is described as a career accelerator, offering the opportunity to own critical infrastructure, compete with global players, and pursue a Lead PM, Principal PM, or CPO track. The position is at a foundational stage of team formation, allowing the individual to shape product work processes. The role offers the chance to develop deep expertise in the complex fintech domain.

Requirements

4+ years as a Product Manager with a proven delivery track - shipped products, not just managed roadmaps
Experience leading cross-functional teams and driving execution without direct authority
Strong prioritization skills grounded in business goals, not stakeholder noise
Able to navigate complex, multi-layered problems - this domain has many edge cases and no shortcuts
Systematic thinker who finds structure in ambiguity and communicates it clearly
Already using AI to optimize how you and your team work

Nice To Haves

Experience in payments - 3DS, acquirer routing, tokenization - you know the domain
Technical background - enough to read architecture docs and earn engineering trust
Hands-on with data - SQL or BI tools, you go to the source yourself
Experience building interfaces or embedding AI into the product

Responsibilities

Drive execution - ship projects and features that move the product forward, hit commitments, and unblock the team
Run discovery - identify growth opportunities, structure ideas, and conduct research to validate what to build next
Own planning and prioritization - build and maintain a clear roadmap, make trade-off calls grounded in business goals, and keep the team focused on what matters most
Lead your cross-functional team - connect engineering, design, data, and business stakeholders into a coherent delivery machine
Set the standard - bring the craft: structured thinking, clear documentation, sharp prioritization, and a culture of shipping with quality
Measure and improve - define success metrics, track outcomes, and use data to course-correct fast