Staff Product Manager, Payments Platform

Ignition; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 190,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Ignition is seeking a Staff Product Manager to own the Payments product, including rails, ledger, and money movement, ensuring timely customer payments and strong UX. You will work in a fast-paced pod with engineers and a designer, using modern AI tooling to ship quickly and learn from real customers.

You will lead opportunities, size bets, and drive adoption post-launch while collaborating with GTM, Risk, and Customer Success to move business metrics.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management, with 3+ years in payments or fintech; experience with rails, settlement, ledger design.
• Real technical fluency in payments infrastructure – rails, providers, and failure modes.
• Proven ability to deliver high-availability financial systems with compliance, risk, and UX.
• Technical depth – read code and engage engineers as a peer.
• AI in daily workflow – experience using AI tools.
• Comfort defining quality for AI-assisted features.
• Demonstrated use of data and experimentation to generate insight and measure impact.
• Strong customer empathy and translating signals into product decisions.
• Adept at structuring ambiguous problems and aligning teams.
• Clear, concise communication across technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities

• Own both ends of the product arc from opportunity to shipped product.
• Own the Payments platform end to end including rails, ledger, settlement, and payments methods.
• Size bets and set scope before cycles; balance must-have vs nice-to-have.
• Work with engineers and designers as a pod, making decisions.
• Ship to real customers early and iterate on feedback.
• Develop deep customer understanding by talking to firms and key accounts.
• Drive payment volume, adoption, and utilization.
• Use AI to accelerate drafting, prototyping, research synthesis.
• Partner cross-functionally with GTM, Support, Risk, Marketing, Sales.
• Define success metrics and measure business outcomes.

Skills

Product management

Payments/fintech

Technical fluency

AI tooling usage

Cross-functional collaboration

Data-driven decisions

Clear communication

Job description

Ignition is seeking a Staff Product Manager to own the Payments product, including rails, ledger, and money movement, ensuring timely customer payments and strong UX. You will work in a fast-paced pod with engineers and a designer, using modern AI tooling to ship quickly and learn from real customers.

You will lead opportunities, size bets, and drive adoption post-launch while collaborating with GTM, Risk, and Customer Success to move business metrics.