Principal Product Manager - Global Payments (Canada)

Principal Global Payments PM

Location: Toronto/GTA preferred; Ottawa considered
Employment Type: Full-time, permanent
Work Model: Remote within Canada

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 project 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 Veem?

Shape the Future of Global Payments

You will help define how businesses move money internationally as the industry evolves toward faster, more intelligent, and more flexible payment infrastructure.

Lead High-Impact Technical Transformation

This role provides the scope and influence to drive meaningful change across architecture, engineering practices, platform capabilities, and organizational strategy.

Work on AI, Stablecoins, and Emerging Financial Technology

You will have the opportunity to move beyond theoretical experimentation and help determine how these technologies can be used in real-world financial systems.

Operate With Executive Visibility

You will partner directly with senior leadership and contribute to decisions that shape Veem’s long-term product and technology direction.

Maintain Hands-On Technical Impact

This is a senior leadership role for someone who still wants to engage deeply in architecture, systems, and technical problem-solving.

Join an Entrepreneurial Environment

Veem offers the opportunity to move quickly, challenge assumptions, introduce new ideas, and make a visible impact.

Build Systems That Matter

The systems you help design will support real businesses moving real money across borders. Reliability, speed, trust, and technical quality directly affect our customers.

Mentor and Multiply Engineering Talent

You will have the opportunity to develop senior engineers, strengthen technical leadership, and help shape Veem’s engineering culture.

Meaningful Equity Upside

In addition to competitive compensation, this role includes equity participation and the opportunity to share in the long-term value created as Veem continues to grow.

Join Veem

Veem is entering an important stage of its technical evolution.

The future of global payments will be shaped by intelligent automation, real-time infrastructure, new settlement technologies, stronger platform capabilities, and engineering teams that can turn emerging technology into trusted financial products.

As Principal Engineer, you will have the opportunity to help build that future.

You will influence how Veem’s systems are designed, how our engineering organization operates, and how we use AI, stablecoins, blockchain, and modern cloud technologies to create a stronger global payments platform.

If you are a deeply technical, forward-thinking engineering leader who wants to make a company-wide impact, we would love to hear from you.