Product Manager - Payments

The Onset; Sydney; On-site; AUD 160,000 - 209,000; Full time

Job summary

The Onset is seeking a Product Manager to own delivery across its merchant platform in Sydney. You will translate priorities into deliverable releases, manage dependencies and make calls to ship quality products into production.

This hands-on role suits someone who enjoys working closely with engineering and QA to deliver shipped features. You will lead backlog grooming, release readiness, cross-team coordination and clear stakeholder updates, ensuring successful rollouts and post-release

Qualifications

• Experience owning delivery across multiple squads or interconnected platforms.
• Strong ability to define scope, priorities and release decisions.
• Technical fluency across APIs, integrations and system dependencies.
• Strong requirements skills, including user stories and testable acceptance criteria.
• Experience coordinating releases and supporting live products after launch.
• Ability to influence teams and communicate risks clearly.

Responsibilities

• Backlog and delivery: break initiatives into increments and prioritise the squad backlog.
• Release readiness: plan releases, coordinate testing and ensure cutover readiness.
• Cross-team dependencies: resolve blockers and manage integration risks.
• Requirements and quality: collaborate with BA/UX to define stories and acceptance criteria.
• Stakeholder communication: keep operations and partners aligned on releases.
• Production outcomes: lead post-release triage and drive improvements.

Skills

Delivery across squads

APIs & integrations

User stories & acceptance criteria

Release coordination

Influence teams

Stakeholder communication

Job description

The opportunity

We're partnering with a leading payments business looking for a Product Manager to own delivery across its merchant platform.

The platform helps businesses manage key parts of their payments experience, spanning onboarding, terminals, digital payments, payouts and billing.

With the strategy and roadmap established by the Senior Product Manager, you'll take ownership of execution: translating agreed priorities into deliverable releases, resolving dependencies and making the calls needed to get quality products into production.

This will suit someone who enjoys being close to engineering, understands the detail and takes satisfaction in getting things live.

What you'll own

• Backlog and delivery: Break initiatives into clear, achievable increments, prioritise the squad backlog and make day-to-day decisions on scope and sequencing.
• Release readiness: Own release planning, coordinate testing and ensure cutover, rollback and operational support are ready before launch.
• Cross-team dependencies: Work directly with product and engineering teams to resolve blockers and manage integration risks.
• Requirements and quality: Partner with Business Analysts and UX to ensure stories, acceptance criteria and designs give Engineering and QA what they need.
• Stakeholder communication: Keep operations, account management and external partners clear on what's landing, when and what it means for them.
• Production outcomes: Lead post-release triage and use defect, incident and delivery data to improve future releases.

Product Manager - Payments

9-month contract | $1,000 per day | Sydney

The opportunity

We're partnering with a leading payments business looking for a Product Manager to own delivery across its merchant platform.

The platform helps businesses manage key parts of their payments experience, spanning onboarding, terminals, digital payments, payouts and billing.

With the strategy and roadmap established by the Senior Product Manager, you'll take ownership of execution: translating agreed priorities into deliverable releases, resolving dependencies and making the calls needed to get quality products into production.

This will suit someone who enjoys being close to engineering, understands the detail and takes satisfaction in getting things live.

What you'll own

• Backlog and delivery: Break initiatives into clear, achievable increments, prioritise the squad backlog and make day-to-day decisions on scope and sequencing.
• Release readiness: Own release planning, coordinate testing and ensure cutover, rollback and operational support are ready before launch.
• Cross-team dependencies: Work directly with product and engineering teams to resolve blockers and manage integration risks.
• Requirements and quality: Partner with Business Analysts and UX to ensure stories, acceptance criteria and designs give Engineering and QA what they need.
• Stakeholder communication: Keep operations, account management and external partners clear on what's landing, when and what it means for them.
• Production outcomes: Lead post-release triage and use defect, incident and delivery data to improve future releases.

What you'll bring

You could be a Product Manager or Technical Product Owner with a strong track record of delivering complex digital products into production.

You'll bring:

• Experience owning delivery across multiple squads or interconnected platforms.
• Confidence making scope, priority and release decisions independently.
• Technical fluency across APIs, integrations and system dependencies.
• Strong requirements skills, including user stories and testable acceptance criteria.
• Experience coordinating releases and supporting live products after launch.
• The ability to influence teams, challenge commitments and communicate risks clearly.

Experience in payments, merchant acquiring, onboarding, terminals or settlement would be highly relevant. Broader experience delivering integration-heavy products in a regulated environment will also be considered.

Why this role?

You'll have clear ownership of delivery, the autonomy to make decisions and the opportunity to improve a platform used by businesses to manage their payments. It's a hands-on contract for someone who enjoys solving delivery problems and seeing their work through to production.