Product Manager

TabaPay • Palo Alto, CA

42d • Hybrid

About The Position

The world is moving towards instant digital payments and TabaPay is leading the way. We help thousands of Fintechs in the US and Canada instantly move money in and out of accounts and we are actively expanding into other countries. Our customers represent the hottest verticals in the financial service industry such as neobanks, challenger brokers, gaming and wallets. TabaPay is a highly profitable rocketship that processes billions of dollars each year. To learn more visit www.tabapay.com.

Requirements

• Five to seven years of overall professional experience, including two to three years working with financial or payments products.
• Experience owning a product roadmap and managing work from initial requirements through engineering delivery.
• Strong experience maintaining and prioritizing product backlogs in Jira.
• Experience working in an Agile product-development environment, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, standups, retrospectives, and release planning.
• Experience partnering closely with engineering teams and managing sprint execution and delivery.
• Ability to translate complex business, operational, and financial needs into clear product requirements.
• Ability to operate effectively in a nuanced and ambiguous environment.
• Demonstrated initiative and the ability to work independently with limited guidance once trained.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• High attention to detail, particularly when working with financial and transaction-level data.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with payment reconciliation, settlement, transaction reporting, financial reporting, exception management.
• Experience with credit cards, debit cards, instant payments, money movement, or payment processing.
• Familiarity with transaction lifecycles, settlement files, processor reports, bank reports, ledgers, fees adjustments, returns, and chargebacks.
• Experience at a FinTech, payments company, bank, financial institution, or high-growth technology company.

Responsibilities

• Own and drive a portfolio of products and enhancements focused on payment reconciliation, settlement, and reporting.
• Translate business and operational needs into a clear product roadmap.
• Maintain and prioritize the Jira backlog.
• Manage work through engineering delivery.
• Develop new and enhanced transaction reporting, settlement-related processes, and capabilities that help identify and resolve reconciliation issues.
• Partner with product leadership to align on priorities.
• Independently manage planning and execution.
• Stay closely connected with engineering, lead regular check-ins, monitor sprint progress, address open questions and dependencies, and keep initiatives moving through completion.
• Operate independently with limited guidance, recognize what needs attention, and proactively take action to move it forward.
• Own the roadmap for products and enhancements related to reconciliation, settlement, and reporting.
• Own the intake, definition, organization, and prioritization of product requests, enhancements, and engineering tickets in Jira.
• Create clear product requirements, user stories, workflows, and acceptance criteria.
• Manage backlog refinement, sprint planning, regular engineering standups, and delivery-status updates.
• Coordinate with engineering to answer questions, manage dependencies, remove blockers, and keep work on track.
• Communicate priorities, timelines, tradeoffs, risks, and progress to product leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Investigate and improve transaction-reporting gaps, settlement processes, reconciliation issues, and operational inefficiencies.
• Conduct product testing, data validation, launch readiness, documentation, and post-launch follow-up.

Benefits

• 100% employer-paid health care insurance including medical, dental, vision, and life insurance (for employee only)
• Employer 401K Matching
• Generous and Flexible PTO

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed