Senior Product Manager

Confidential Jobs; Manila; On-site; PHP 1,200,000 - 2,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Confidential Jobs in the Philippines is seeking a Product Manager to own the retail payments product, focusing on QR payments and merchant onboarding, activation, and growth.

You will collaborate across product, business, operations, engineering, and external payment partners to tailor the product for the Philippine market and drive transaction growth.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Product Management experience in commerce, fintech, or payments.
• Hands-on experience with merchants and merchant growth challenges.
• Familiarity with Southeast Asian markets and payment acceptance.
• Strong data-driven decision making with analytics.
• Experience with merchant interviews and turning insights into actions.
• Experience working with external payment partners or acquirers.
• Able to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration, including remote teams.
• Familiarity with Agile product development.

Responsibilities

• Own Retail Product: define and execute the product roadmap for QR payments and retail payment acceptance.
• Adapt retail products for the Philippines market, including localization, regulatory requirements, and local payment methods.
• Merchant Acquisition: partner with Business and Operations teams to drive merchant onboarding and activation.
• Partner Integration: work closely with payment partners and acquirers to enable seamless payment acceptance.
• Define Success Metrics: establish and track key metrics such as active merchants, transaction volume, and merchant retention.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: work with Engineering, Design, Operations, and Business teams to deliver the product roadmap.
• User Research: understand merchant needs, pain points, and behaviours through user research and translate insights into product decisions.

Skills

Product management

Merchant onboarding

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional collaboration

Agile

Tools

APIs

Job description

Product Manager - Payments | Philippines

About the Company

A fast-growing Southeast Asian fintech is building an all-in-one operating system for MSMEs, helping businesses manage everything from bookkeeping and payments to lending and financial services.

With a strong presence in Indonesia and plans to expand into the Philippines, the company is entering an exciting phase of growth. The business is backed by leading global investors and is approaching profitability, making this a unique opportunity to join a growth-stage company with significant scale and ambition.

About the Role

We are looking for a Product Manager to own and drive the retail payments product for the Philippines market. The role will focus on QR payments and retail payment acceptance, with a strong emphasis on merchant acquisition, activation, retention, and overall transaction growth.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience in fintech, payments, commerce, or merchant-facing products and be comfortable working across product, business, operations, engineering, and external payment partners.

What You'll Do

• Own Retail Product: Define and execute the product roadmap for QR payments and retail payment acceptance.
• Market Adaptation: Adapt retail products for the Philippines market, including localization, regulatory requirements, and local payment methods.
• Merchant Acquisition: Partner with Business and Operations teams to drive merchant onboarding and activation.
• Partner Integration: Work closely with payment partners and acquirers to enable seamless payment acceptance.
• Define Success Metrics: Establish and track key metrics such as active merchants, transaction volume, and merchant retention.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Engineering, Design, Operations, and Business teams to deliver the product roadmap.
• User Research: Understand merchant needs, pain points, and behaviours through user research and translate insights into product decisions.

What We're Looking For

• 3+ years of Product Management experience, ideally within commerce, fintech, payments, or related domains.
• Hands-on experience working with merchants and solving merchant growth or adoption problems.
• Familiarity with Southeast Asian markets, payment acceptance, or merchant acquiring.
• Strong analytical thinking with the ability to make data-driven product decisions.
• Experience conducting end-to-end user research, from merchant interviews to insights and product actions.
• Experience working on integrations with external partners, payment providers, or acquirers.
• Comfortable working in ambiguous and fast-moving environments.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with remote and cross-functional teams.
• Familiarity with Agile product development methodologies.