Principal Product Manager, Payments

Role Description

The Move Money Platform connects Versapay to the world’s financial systems. As a Principal Product Manager, you own the network strategy, design, connections, compliance, and ultimate performance of our network relationships.

• Own the Move Money Platform roadmap, strategy, and execution globally.
• Set the multi-year vision for how Versapay connects to financial networks (fiat and crypto) across North America, EMEA, and expansion markets.
• Translate that vision into a durable roadmap with clear bets, sequencing, and measurable outcomes: auth rate, cost per transaction, settlement speed, uptime, and geographic coverage.
• Lead engineering teams through the full SDLC.
• Own product requirements, technical design partnership, sprint planning, and release readiness across the engineering pods that build and operate the platform.
• Drive trade-off decisions on architecture, throughput, latency, and resiliency in collaboration with engineering leadership.
• Design and operate our network connectivity across fiat and crypto.
• Define our fault-tolerance posture across providers, rails, and chains.
• Eliminate single points of failure.
• Build automated failover and graceful degradation between fiat and crypto rails when conditions warrant.
• Stay ahead of network compliance and operating rule adherence for fiat and crypto rails.
• Build and maintain trusted relationships with card networks, ACH and RTP operators, sponsor banks, processors, stablecoin issuers, custodians, on/off-ramp partners, etc.
• Apply modern AI capabilities to network operations across fiat and crypto.
• Serve as Versapay’s authority on payment networks, money-movement mechanics, stablecoin and on-chain settlement, and global rail economics.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in payments or fintech product management, with at least 3 years owning a platform or infrastructure product end to end.
• Demonstrated experience designing, integrating, and operating payment network connections across both fiat and crypto rails.
• Deep payments expertise across North America and EMEA, spanning fiat and crypto.
• Track record of leading engineering teams through the full SDLC.
• Operator’s instinct for resiliency, routing, and performance.
• Partner-facing and, where required, regulator-facing presence.
• AI-forward mindset (preferred).
• Excellent executive and partner communication.
• Builder mentality.

Requirements

• Experience with stablecoin settlement, on/off-ramp integrations, custody connections, and at least one production payment flow on a public chain.
• Comfortable being measured on engineering output as well as product outcomes.
• Ability to represent the company in scheme working groups, sponsor bank quarterly reviews, stablecoin issuer roadmap sessions, or regulator briefings.

Benefits

• $170,000 - $190,000 a year.
• #LI-Remote.