Senior Product Manager, Payments Processing

Caesars Entertainment•Jersey City, NJ

About The Position

We are seeking a highly technical, data‑driven Product Manager to lead the evolution of our Payment Routing, Intelligence Layer, and Platform Integration capabilities. This role focuses on building the smart infrastructure that powers routing logic, processor selection, failover flows, transaction optimization, and the foundational integration layer that connects to our payment's ecosystem. You will partner closely with Engineering, Payments, Risk, Fraud, Data Science, and Compliance to deliver a platform that maximizes payment success rates, reduces cost, expands reach, and ensures resilience at scale. This is a critical IC role within the Payments Product team focused on deep platform‑level capabilities, not just UI.

Requirements

4–6+ years in Product Management with strong experience in payments, fintech, platform infrastructure, or API products
Hands‑on experience with payment processors, routing logic, or backend payment platforms
Familiarity with API-driven integrations, service-oriented architectures, or platform engineering
Experience working with Engineering, Data Science, and Payments Operations
Strong technical fluency — able to collaborate deeply with architects and engineers
Highly analytical with expertise in funnel metrics, performance optimization, and root‑cause analysis
Excellent communication skills capable of translating technical concepts into business impact
Comfortable making trade‑offs between latency, cost, reliability, and complexity
Owned and delivered on product roadmap
Strong stakeholder management across Payments, Fraud, Risk, and Compliance
Customer‑obsessed with a passion for reliability and seamless payment experiences

Nice To Haves

Background in optimizing transactional systems or high-volume distributed systems a plus

Responsibilities

End-to-end ownership of the Payment Routing Engine and Intelligence Layer
Platform integration layer capabilities (API orchestration, connector framework, abstraction layers)
Routing logic based on cost, performance, user attributes, payment type, geography, and risk signals
Realtime failover and fallback capabilities to drive guaranteed payment completion
Partnering with Engineering to deliver a scalable, resilient, high availability payments platform
Ensure Payment Routing Engine and Intelligence Layer is compatible with the architecture and process flows with other areas including vendors, risk, intelligence and fraud
Own day‑to‑day product delivery for routing logic, processor integrations, and intelligence algorithms
Define the roadmap for the integration layer, routing engine, and optimization capabilities
Partner with Engineering on system design, architecture trade‑offs, and API requirements
Collaborate with Data Science to incorporate machine learning, scoring, or signal‑based routing
Conduct deep analysis on authorization declines, routing failures, and regional optimization gaps
Evaluate new payment processors, wallets, and banking partners for integration and remain an expert in the payments industry
Develop frameworks for routing experiments and multivariate routing logic
Ensure compliance and risk signals are embedded into routing and decision flows
Partner with internal teams to continuously refine routing rules, fallback paths, and error handling
Influence the platform strategy to enable scalability, global expansion, and modular payment integrations
Own the prioritization framework and process to balance business, engineering and stakeholder requirements