Product Manager, Payments & Checkout — Drive Conversion

Pantera Capital; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 169,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Gametime in the United States (San Francisco) is seeking a Product Manager for Payments & Checkout who will own the roadmap for growing checkout conversion, improving payment authorization, and expanding BNPL options. You will partner with BNPL, processing, and wallet vendors to optimize economics and protect margins.

The role offers exposure to high-volume e-commerce mechanics, fraud risk trade-offs, and data-driven optimization.

Qualifications

• Experience owning payments, checkout, or fraud/risk in a consumer marketplace, fintech, or high-volume e-commerce environment.
• Familiarity with authorization, processing, and payment routing related to conversion and cost.
• Experience managing vendor and processor relationships, including negotiating terms and evaluating new partners.
• Data-driven approach with SQL/analytics to diagnose funnel and payment performance issues.

Responsibilities

• Checkout conversion: identify and eliminate friction across the payment flow and run experiments to lift completion rates.
• Payment authorization rates: partner with processors and networks to reduce declines and recover failed transactions.
• BNPL adoption: grow usage and expand the mix of buy-now-pay-later and alternative payment methods.
• Fraud and risk trade-offs: balance growth with fraud exposure, working with risk tooling and rules.
• Vendor strategy: manage and evaluate payment processors, BNPL providers, and wallet partners to improve terms and performance.
• Cost of payments: drive down the blended cost of accepting transactions as volume grows.
• A roadmap tied to transaction growth, AOV, and payments cost efficiency.

Skills

Shipping product changes

Cross-functional partnership

Strategic thinking

Hands-on execution

Tools

SQL

Job description

Gametime in the United States (San Francisco) is seeking a Product Manager for Payments & Checkout who will own the roadmap for growing checkout conversion, improving payment authorization, and expanding BNPL options. You will partner with BNPL, processing, and wallet vendors to optimize economics and protect margins.

The role offers exposure to high-volume e-commerce mechanics, fraud risk trade-offs, and data-driven optimization.