Sr. Product Manager, Embedded Payments
About The Position
WEX is seeking a Sr. Product Manager to own the execution and delivery of its embedded payments product roadmap. The role focuses on simplifying and reimagining customer experiences and delivering a unified, customer-driven product experience. The Product Manager will work across the business, learn the end-to-end customer experience, support the Product Management team’s strategic roadmap, and partner closely with engineering on payment APIs and infrastructure. The position combines strategic product direction with hands-on discovery and delivery. The Product Manager will develop a strong understanding of customers, partners, market trends, competitive offerings, and payment technologies; turn customer and business problems into product priorities; and use qualitative and quantitative insights to inform decisions. The role leads delivery with one or two Scrum teams and collaborates with product, engineering, analytics, UX, and business partners to deliver scalable capabilities and cohesive customer experiences. Embedded payments is a growth area for WEX, offering an opportunity to shape product direction, modernize platform capabilities, and support Corporate Payments customers in an evolving, startup-like environment within an established company.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of product management experience, including at least 2 years in payments, fintech, or embedded finance.
- Undergraduate degree required.
- At least 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 or wire rails, or embedded finance patterns.
- Experience partnering with engineering on API design, including REST or webhooks and trade-offs involving latency, idempotency, and compliance or PCI considerations.
- Ability to understand how individual features connect to the overall product vision.
- Learning mindset and ability to develop hypotheses that are tested and iterated.
- Strong ability to identify common elements, develop user workflows, and design interfaces.
- Familiarity with big data frameworks.
- Data-driven approach to understanding customers, prioritizing roadmaps, and measuring success.
- Ability to work in an agile manner, moving from broad exploration to focused execution and building, testing, and iterating.
- Ability to manage multiple projects in parallel at different stages of maturity and velocity.
Nice To Haves
- Advanced degree.
- 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, chargebacks, or compliance.
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, technically sound product experiences.
- Lead product delivery with one or two Scrum teams, align teams around problems, sequence work, and deliver value iteratively.
- Use qualitative and quantitative data to assess product performance, define success measures, inform prioritization, 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.
- Identify opportunities to modernize payment infrastructure and close capability gaps, including capabilities for Corporate Payments and Mobility use cases.
- Use AI tools thoughtfully to improve productivity and explore product opportunities, validating outputs and avoiding unsupported or inappropriate solutions.
- Apply a risk-aware approach 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, subject to role and applicable plan
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
