Sr. Product Manager, Embedded Payments

WEX•Chicago, IL

1d•$125,300 - $154,100

About The Position

WEX is seeking a Senior Product Manager with technical fluency and payments expertise to own execution and delivery of its embedded payments product roadmap. The role focuses on simplifying and reimagining customer experiences while advancing a unified user experience across WEX products and services. The Product Manager will work with the Product Management team on its strategic roadmap and partner closely with engineering on payment APIs and infrastructure. The role owns strategy, roadmap, discovery, and end-to-end delivery for an embedded payments product or core payment platform capability. It combines customer and market research, product prioritization, technical partnership, iterative delivery, and measurement of product and business outcomes. The position also contributes to modernization of payment infrastructure and supports broader Corporate Payments and Mobility use cases. It requires a collaborative, data-driven, risk-aware approach, including thoughtful use of AI tools and attention to due diligence, compliance review, and confidential information.

Requirements

5+ years of product management experience.
2+ years of experience in payments, fintech, or embedded finance.
Undergraduate degree required; an advanced degree is a plus.
2+ years of experience building payments products, ideally embedded payments or payments APIs, such as payment processing, disbursements, card issuing, or money movement platforms.
Experience building self-service products from scratch, including data definition, SDKs, and APIs consumed by software developers.
Deep understanding of payments infrastructure, including authorization and settlement flows, card networks, ACH/wire rails, or embedded finance patterns.
Experience partnering with engineering on API design, including REST/webhooks and trade-offs around latency, idempotency, and compliance/PCI considerations.
Ability to think through unifying elements and common denominators and conceive user workflows and interfaces.
Familiarity with big data frameworks.
Data-driven approach to understanding customers, prioritizing roadmaps, and measuring success.
Ability to work agilely with teams, broaden exploration before narrowing, and build, test, and iterate.
Ability to manage multiple projects in parallel at different stages of maturity and velocity.
Learning mindset and ability to develop hypotheses that are tested and iterated.

Nice To Haves

Experience in embedded payments, fintech, or developer-first platform products.
Experience with payment APIs, developer portals, sandbox environments, partner integrations, or data and event streams.
Experience modernizing payment infrastructure or closing gaps between existing platform capabilities and market expectations.
Familiarity with payments-adjacent regulatory or risk considerations, including KYC/KYB, fraud, and chargebacks.
Advanced degree.

Responsibilities

Own the strategy, roadmap, discovery, and end-to-end delivery for an embedded payments product or core payment platform capability.
Translate customer and business problems into clear product priorities.
Build understanding of embedded payments customers, partners, market dynamics, and competitive offerings to identify opportunities and guide product decisions.
Lead customer-centric discovery and translate insights into product requirements, hypotheses, and prioritized roadmaps with engineering and cross-functional teams.
Partner with engineering on payment APIs, platform capabilities, and architecture trade-offs to deliver scalable product experiences.
Lead product delivery with 1–2 Scrum teams, align teams around problems to solve, sequence work, and deliver value iteratively.
Use qualitative and quantitative data to assess product performance, define success measures, inform prioritization, and evaluate adoption and business outcomes.
Collaborate with product, engineering, analytics, UX, and business partners to create a cohesive end-to-end customer experience.
Identify opportunities to modernize payment infrastructure and close capability gaps, including those supporting Corporate Payments and Mobility use cases.
Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve productivity and explore product opportunities, critically validating outputs.
Apply a risk-aware approach to product decisions, including due diligence, compliance review processes, and protection of confidential or proprietary information.
Understand how individual features interface with the overall product vision.
Develop hypotheses, test them, and iterate; work in an agile fashion and manage projects in parallel at different stages and velocities.

Benefits

Health insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Retirement savings plan
Paid time off
Health savings account
Flexible spending accounts
Life insurance
Disability insurance
Tuition reimbursement
Quarterly or annual bonus eligibility for non-sales roles, subject to role and applicable plan