Remote Payments Gateway Lead — Platform & AI Innovation

Versapay; Oregon; Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Versapay, a leading B2B payments platform in the United States, seeks a Senior Product Manager, Payments Gateway, to own Versapay’s gateway from authorization to settlement. You will set the vision for a scalable, multi-tenant gateway that connects to processors, acquirers, card and bank networks.

Own outcomes for performance, uptime, and cost. You will partner with engineering and GTM teams, shaping APIs, SDKs, and merchant configurations, while ensuring PCI DSS and regional compliance.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in payments or fintech product management.
• 3+ years owning a payment gateway, processing, orchestration, or PSP platform end to end.
• Deep transaction lifecycle expertise: authorization, settlement, chargebacks, etc.
• Proven track record moving payment performance metrics (authorization rates, latency, uptime).
• Global payments experience across NA and international markets (multi-currency, local methods).
• Experience leading engineering teams in delivery and architecture decisions.
• AI fluency with LLMs/ML applied to payment workflows.
• Entrepreneurial, hands-on builder mentality with appetite for ambiguity.

Responsibilities

• Own the gateway strategy and roadmap for multi-market payments. Balance near-term gains with long-term platform investments.
• Drive payment performance: authorization/payer rates, uptime, latency, cost; optimize with techniques like network tokenization and retries.
• Define gateway APIs, SDKs, hosted payment pages, webhooks, and merchant/MID config for rapid deployments.
• Lead integrations with processors, acquirers, and networks; ensure PCI DSS and regional compliance."
• Own the end-to-end transaction lifecycle: authorization, capture, refunds, disputes, settlement; coordinate with risk and compliance.
• Lead engineering pods; guide architecture trade-offs and SDLC to unblock delivery.
• Apply AI to retry optimization, anomaly detection and partner integration support; advocate AI-native operating model.
• Represent gateway strategy to executives and external partners/customers.

Skills

Payments PM

Gateway ownership

Gateway scaling

Transaction lifecycle

AI in payments

Engineering leadership

Tools

LLMs/ML

APIs/SDKs

Job description

Versapay, a leading B2B payments platform in the United States, seeks a Senior Product Manager, Payments Gateway, to own Versapay’s gateway from authorization to settlement. You will set the vision for a scalable, multi-tenant gateway that connects to processors, acquirers, card and bank networks.

Own outcomes for performance, uptime, and cost. You will partner with engineering and GTM teams, shaping APIs, SDKs, and merchant configurations, while ensuring PCI DSS and regional compliance.