Senior Platform PM – Payments Infra & Agentic AI

Kelly Services; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid schedule

401(k) match

Career progression

Job summary

Motion Recruitment Partners in New York is hiring a Senior Technical Platform Product Manager for Payments Infrastructure and agentic AI to own the platform roadmap and API strategy at scale.

You will build 0-to-1 APIs, developer frameworks, and transaction protocols, working with platform engineers, risk partners, and AI researchers to enable secure, autonomous commerce across consumer and merchant networks. This is a hybrid role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of technical product management experience building and scaling developer-facing platform APIs, core infrastructure, or transactional systems.
• Strong domain expertise in payments infrastructure — transaction authorization and settlement, payment rails, fraud prevention systems, and dispute resolution workflows.
• Technical fluency in emerging autonomous agent standards and transaction protocols, such as MCP, x402, Web Bot Auth, and agent-to-agent payment frameworks.
• Proven track record taking 0-to-1 platform capabilities from concept to production in highly regulated, compliance-driven environments.
• Demonstrated ability to build external ecosystem alignment, coordinating technical integrations and protocol standards across AI research organizations, PSPs, and enterprise merchants.
• Strong technical background capable of evaluating architectural tradeoffs, defining API schemas, and partnering with engineers and security teams.

Responsibilities

• Define platform product strategy, technical requirements, and API specifications enabling autonomous, agent-facilitated commerce across consumer and merchant networks.
• Drive implementation and integration of emerging agentic protocols into scalable backend systems.
• Architect transaction safeguards, partnering with Fraud, Risk, and Servicing teams on real-time authentication, dispute handling, and compliance controls for agent-driven flows.
• Lead cross-functional alignment with external AI organizations, network partners, PSPs, and merchants to co-develop shared technical standards and data-sharing interfaces.
• Partner with Legal, Risk, and Compliance to ensure platform frameworks adhere to data privacy requirements and global financial regulations.
• Work with engineering, solutions architecture, and developer experience teams to ship resilient APIs, integration toolkits, and dashboards.
• Monitor advancements across the autonomous AI landscape and translate them into a durable multi-year technical platform roadmap.

Skills

PM experience

Payments infra

Agent standards

0-to-1 platform

Ecosystem alignment

API design & security

Job description

Motion Recruitment Partners in New York is hiring a Senior Technical Platform Product Manager for Payments Infrastructure and agentic AI to own the platform roadmap and API strategy at scale.

You will build 0-to-1 APIs, developer frameworks, and transaction protocols, working with platform engineers, risk partners, and AI researchers to enable secure, autonomous commerce across consumer and merchant networks. This is a hybrid role.