Vice President of Product

Paystand•Santa Cruz, CA

3d•$220,000 - $250,000•Onsite

About The Position

Paystand is the world's leading blockchain-enabled B2B payments network, transforming commercial finance into a software-driven, zero-fee, and open ecosystem. Recognized as a CNBC/Statista 2026 World's Top Fintech company, Paystand delivers over a decade of on-chain payments experience to middle and large enterprises. Paystand's network services more than one million payors that have moved $20+ billion in volume. With its acquisitions of Yaydoo, Teampay and Bitwage, Paystand's full-stack platform includes agentic AI, its USDb stablecoin, and AR/AP solutions on one tightly integrated network. Its non-profit arm, Paystand.org, advances the mission to democratize finance through Bitcoin and blockchain technology. We built the financial system we always thought should exist: zero fees, zero friction, just your money, faster. Blockchain automates receivables and payables, cuts time-to-cash, and turns every transaction into revenue instead of cost. The current system takes a cut from the people who build, create, and grow — and calls it the cost of doing business. We don't buy that. Every fee we eliminate compounds into growth. We're here to decentralize finance and hand the power back to the businesses driving the real economy — extended further through Paystand.org's work to democratize finance through Bitcoin and blockchain. We don't wait for permission or for the industry to catch up — we build the future of finance ourselves, on-chain, in the open. Small moves now, monumental results later. We're not looking for people who want a job in fintech. We're looking for people who want to build what comes after it. Paystand is where you help lead a financial revolution instead of just reading about one. We stand on change. Come stand with us.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive leadership across Product, Engineering, technical strategy, or adjacent business functions, including significant experience leading complex B2B Fintech, payments, SaaS, or financial-platform products.
A demonstrated record of building, launching, and scaling products that produced measurable revenue, adoption, retention, customer, or operating results.
A blended technical and business foundation is required: a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, a business-focused technical discipline, or equivalent technical experience, paired with an MBA, formal business training, or substantial experience leading a commercial or operational business function.
Direct working knowledge of digital assets, stablecoins, blockchain-based payment rails, cross-border payment flows, settlement, liquidity, and the practical risk and regulatory considerations that shape these products.
Technical depth sufficient to engage credibly with engineers and architects on APIs, platform architecture, data, security, integrations, and system tradeoffs; prior engineering or hands-on technical experience is strongly valued.
Strong commercial judgment and financial fluency, with the ability to connect product and technical decisions to revenue, margin, market position, implementation cost, and long-term enterprise value.
Meaningful cross-functional leadership experience beyond Product, including success influencing or leading Engineering, GTM, Operations, Finance, Customer Success, or other business functions.
Exceptional analytical rigor, systems thinking, and cognitive agility, paired with the emotional intelligence to influence strong personalities, absorb dissent, communicate directly, and make sound decisions under pressure.
A proven talent builder who sets high standards, develops leaders, creates accountability, and operates with curiosity, resilience, humility, and low ego.
Experience leading distributed, multicultural teams and collaborating effectively across the United States and LATAM.
Fluent professional English is required.

Nice To Haves

Prior experience as an engineer, technical product leader, solutions architect, or comparable role that required hands-on understanding of software systems.
Experience integrating an acquired company, consolidating overlapping product lines, or migrating customers and teams to a unified platform.
Deep experience in B2B payments, embedded finance, treasury management, the Office of the CFO, ERP ecosystems, or API-first financial infrastructure.
Working knowledge of U.S. and LATAM payments, banking, data, security, and regulatory environments.
Professional fluency in Spanish.
Demonstrated results incorporating AI or agentic systems into product development, research, analytics, decision support, customer experiences, or operating workflows.
Designs repeatable systems that increase execution capacity, reduce manual work, improve decision quality, and make knowledge reusable across teams.
Continuously challenges how work is performed—not only within Product, but across connected functions—and converts experimentation into durable, measurable business improvements.
Balances speed and calculated risk with appropriate controls, clear guardrails, and accountability for outcomes.

Responsibilities

Own Product and Portfolio Strategy: Convert company objectives, customer needs, market intelligence, and technical realities into a clear multi-year product strategy and sequenced roadmap.
Drive Technical and Product Execution: Partner deeply with Engineering and Architecture on platform design, APIs, data, integrations, scalability, security, and build-versus-buy decisions. Challenge assumptions and resolve tradeoffs without becoming a bottleneck.
Connect Product Decisions to Business Results: Evaluate investments through revenue potential, margin, adoption, retention, implementation effort, risk, and customer value—not feature volume or internal enthusiasm.
Lead Cross-Functional Execution: Align Product, Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations from discovery through launch, adoption, and iteration.
Lead Digital-Asset and Cross-Border Innovation: Guide product development across stablecoins, blockchain-based payment infrastructure, cross-border money movement, settlement, liquidity, and related regulatory considerations.
Build and Develop the Product Organization: Set a high talent bar, clarify ownership, coach Product leaders and managers, strengthen succession capability, and create an environment of candor, curiosity, accountability, and low ego.
Represent the Customer and Market: Maintain direct relationships with customers, partners, and industry stakeholders; use qualitative and quantitative evidence to identify problems worth solving and validate product-market fit.
Establish Performance Discipline: Define product KPIs, instrument the customer journey, review outcomes consistently, and stop or redirect work when evidence no longer supports the investment.
Communicate at the Executive Level: Present clear recommendations, tradeoffs, risks, and decisions to the executive team and other stakeholders. Translate complex technical topics into practical business implications.