Sr. Product Manager, Embedded Payments

WEXWEXUS•Remote, OH

5h•$125,300 - $154,100

About The Position

WEX is seeking a Sr. Product Manager with technical fluency and payments expertise to own the execution and delivery of its embedded payments product roadmap. The role focuses on simplifying and reimagining customer experiences, working closely with engineering on payment APIs and infrastructure, and supporting the Product Management team’s strategic roadmap. The product manager will build understanding of customer needs, market trends, and competitive offerings; use insights and data to guide product decisions; and collaborate across teams to deliver customer-driven innovation. Embedded payments is a growth area for WEX, with investment focused on strengthening core payment platform capabilities and making it easier for partners to integrate WEX payments into their experiences. The role offers the opportunity to shape product direction, modernize platform capabilities, and contribute to solutions for Corporate Payments customers in an evolving environment that combines the scale of an established company with a startup-like setting and opportunities for visible impact.

Requirements

5+ years of product management experience, including 2+ years in payments, fintech, or embedded finance.
Undergraduate degree required.
2+ years of experience building payments products, ideally embedded payments or payment 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 involving latency, idempotency, and compliance/PCI considerations.
Ability to understand how individual features relate to the overall product vision.
Learning mindset and ability to develop hypotheses that are tested and iterated.
Ability to identify common elements, envision user workflows and interfaces, and think through product experiences.
Familiarity with big data frameworks.
Data-driven approach to understanding customers, prioritizing roadmaps, and measuring success.
Ability to work in an agile fashion with teams, build broadly and narrowly, test, and iterate.
Ability to manage multiple projects in parallel at different stages of maturity and velocity.

Nice To Haves

Advanced degree.
Familiarity with payments-adjacent regulatory or risk considerations, such as KYC/KYB, fraud, and chargebacks.
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-related risk, regulatory, or compliance considerations.

Responsibilities

Own strategy, roadmap, discovery, and end-to-end delivery for an embedded payments product or core payment platform capability, translating customer and business problems into product priorities.
Develop 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, prioritize work, and evaluate customer adoption and business outcomes.
Collaborate with product, engineering, analytics, UX, and business partners to create a cohesive end-to-end customer experience across products and platforms.
Identify opportunities to modernize payment infrastructure and close capability gaps, including opportunities for Corporate Payments and Mobility use cases.
Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve productivity and explore product opportunities, applying judgment to validate outputs and avoid unsupported or inappropriate solutions.
Apply a risk-aware mindset to product decisions, including due diligence, compliance review processes, and protection of confidential or proprietary information.

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, depending on role and applicable plan