Staff Product Manager, Payments

Qualia•Austin, TX

14h

About The Position

Qualia is building payments infrastructure integrated directly into its real estate Closings experience, addressing outdated and fragmented payment systems that slow transactions and create risk. The Staff Product Manager for Payments will own the product vision, roadmap, and execution from the ground up, driving end-to-end payment flows, introducing payment rails, and delivering an experience for customers and end users. The role partners with Design, Engineering, Strategy, Legal, Risk, Operations, Bank Partners, and Product Marketing to develop, launch, and iteratively improve the payments product.

Requirements

At least 5 years of experience as a Product Manager building software products.
Proven experience building payments products spanning multiple payment methods, including ACH, Wire, RTP, FedNow, and checks.
Experience with Agile product development methodologies and scoping, executing, and delivering products to market.
Analytical and strategic approach, with a track record of using data to validate assumptions.
Ability to solve problems through listening, clarifying ambiguity, asking questions, and negotiating trade-offs.
Experience creating roadmaps and communicating them to executives.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including experience working with high-level decision-makers.

Nice To Haves

Knowledge of real estate, title, lending, or insurance industries.

Responsibilities

Own the end-to-end payments product strategy, from assessing market opportunities and defining the vision to shipping and iterating in production.
Partner with Design to create a payments experience tailored to the needs of real estate closings.
Integrate with multiple payment rails to maximize speed, optionality, and value for customers.
Collaborate with Engineering and Design to break goals into shippable, iterative milestones that deliver value quickly.
Work with Strategy, Legal, Risk, Operations, Bank Partners, and Product Marketing to build high-impact features.
Maintain a prioritized roadmap that maximizes customer value while balancing technical complexity and risk.
Write clear product requirements documents that frame the problem, success criteria, and context.
Analyze adoption and engagement data, applying findings to improve priorities and the product.