Principal Global Payments PM

Principal Global Payments PM

 Location: SF Bay Area
Department: Product Management
Reports To: SVP of Product and Engineering

About the Role:

The Principal Product Manager - Global Payments will own the product roadmap, and execution for Veem’s global payment capabilities across pay-in, payout, money movement, partner integrations, and payment operations. This leader will define how Veem expands and optimizes payment rails, local market capabilities, partner coverage, reliability, cost, speed, and customer experience across global markets.

This is a senior, strategic product role that requires deep payments domain expertise, strong technical judgment, and the ability to partner closely with Engineering, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Finance, Sales, and external payment partners. The ideal candidate has built and scaled global payment products, evaluated and managed payment partners, and led complex integrations across pay-in and payout capabilities.

Key Responsibilities:

• Product Leadership: Define and drive the roadmap, and success metrics for global payment capabilities, including pay-ins, payouts, payment methods, payment routing, settlement, reconciliation, and partner integrations.

• Global Payments Roadmap: Identify market, customer, and operational needs across regions and translate them into scalable product requirements and prioritized delivery plans.

•  Partner Management and Evaluation: Evaluate, select, onboard, and manage payment partners and vendors based on capabilities, geographic coverage, reliability, cost, compliance posture, technical fit, service levels, and long-term scalability.

• Pay-In and Payout Integrations: Lead end-to-end product requirements and execution for pay-in and payout partner integrations, including APIs, payment method enablement, transaction status flows, webhooks, exception handling, reconciliation, reporting, and operational readiness.
• Payment Performance Optimization: Improve authorization/conversion rates, payout success rates, processing speed, cost-to-serve, transaction visibility, resilience, and customer experience across payment flows.
• Cross-Functional Execution: Partner with Engineering, Operations, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Data, Finance, Customer Success, and Sales to deliver high-quality global payment capabilities that are scalable, compliant, and operationally supportable.
•  Risk, Compliance, and Regulatory Enablement: Work with Risk, Compliance, and Legal teams to ensure payment products meet regulatory, licensing, AML, sanctions, fraud, data privacy, and partner obligations across global markets.
• Thought Leadership: Stay ahead of payment industry trends, local payment methods, cross-border payment capabilities, regulatory changes, fintech infrastructure, and emerging partner solutions.

Qualifications:

• 10+ years of product management experience, including significant experience in payments, fintech, financial services, or payment infrastructure; 3+ years in a senior or principal-level product role preferred.
•  Deep understanding of global payments, including pay-ins, payouts, payment methods, acquiring, bank rails, FX, settlement, reconciliation, payment operations, and cross-border money movement.
• Proven experience evaluating, negotiating with, integrating, and managing external payment partners, processors, banking partners, payment networks, or fintech infrastructure providers.
• Hands-on experience leading API-based partner integrations and working closely with engineering teams on technical design, data flows, reliability, monitoring, and operational tooling.
• Strong understanding of risk, fraud, AML/CFT, sanctions, KYC/KYB, data privacy, and regulatory considerations related to payment products.
•  Experience with B2B payments, cross-border payments, payment orchestration,local payment methods, banking integrations, card acquiring, ACH/EFT, wires, RTP/faster payments, wallets, or payout networks.
• Strong analytical skills with experience using data to evaluate partner performance, payment conversion, cost, reliability, and customer impact.
• Excellent communication, executive presence, stakeholder management, and cross-functional leadership skills.
• Ability to operate strategically while also driving detailed execution in a fast-moving environment.

What We Offer:

• Competitive salary and equity packages
   
• Flexible working hours and a remote-friendly culture
   
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
   
• Learning and development budget
   
• A collaborative, growth-oriented engineering culture
   

Why Join Us?

We are committed to driving innovation in FinTech:

We have disruptive technology and will continue to build new products with this in mind.

We are in a growth industry:

The global financial services world is booming and projections are that the boom will grow.

We reward hard work and initiative:

Everyone at Veem is eligible for a bonus to reward you for your effort and contributions.

We are growing and will continue to grow:

If you want your career to grow, this is the place to be.

You want to explore new ways of doing things:

You want to build on your use of AI on the job?  Bring it on!  So do we!

3 words…Initial Public Offering

Our goal is to go public and we are offering our valued employees options packages when they join Veem.  This is your opportunity to potentially hit it big!