Senior Product Manager, Payments

Engine; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 154,000 - 213,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base pay

Equity and bonuses

Hybrid/Remote work options

Job summary

Engine is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Payments to own strategy, roadmap, and execution for a mission‑critical payments platform. You will lead development of payment acceptance, card issuing, and the surrounding financial infrastructure that powers Engine’s transactions.

You will collaborate with engineering, design, partnerships, and go‑to‑market teams to expand payment methods, partner ecosystems, and AI‑driven experiences.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in product management, with meaningful time spent on technical or platform products.
• Direct experience in payments, credit cards, or fintech is a bonus with exposure to payment acceptance, card issuing, or related systems.
• Technical depth and comfort with architecture, tradeoffs, and system design.
• Systems thinking and ability to build cross-functional systems with long-term impact.
• Customer-focused mindset with attention to customer experience in infrastructure decisions.
• AI fluency and experience shipping AI-powered features or workflows.

Responsibilities

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for a suite of payments and fintech products, including payment acceptance, card issuing, and the financial infrastructure that underpins everything customers transact on Engine.
• Expand Engine's payments capabilities by integrating new payment methods, card programs, and financial partners, balancing long term platform bets against near term customer and revenue wins.
• Partner closely with Business Development and other Product leaders to shape and land partnerships that materially expand what Engine's payments ecosystem can do.
• Work with cross functional design, engineering, marketing, CX, and sales partners to bring initiatives to life from initial ideation through post launch, and set the bar for how the work gets shipped.
• Raise the AI bar across Payments. Use AI in how you work day to day, and build AI-native experiences into the product where they meaningfully change how customers pay, get paid, and manage spend.
• Hold the room. Represent Payments in exec conversations, cross functional forums, and customer deep dives, and make sure people understand what Payments is building and why.

Skills

Product management

Payments/fintech

Technical depth

Systems thinking

Customer obsession

AI fluency

Builder mindset

Job description

About Engine

At Engine, we're transforming business travel into something personalized, rewarding, and simple. For too long, managing travel and spend has been overwhelming and fragmented — we're here to change that. We believe the future of travel should be seamless and powered by technology that delights customers at every step. That's why we're building a platform that brings together corporate travel, a powerful charge card, and modern spend management in one place.

To make this vision real, we're looking for exceptional, mission-driven people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel.

More than 30,000 companies already rely on Engine to support over 1 million travelers and billions in annual bookings each year. Cash flow positive with rapid growth, we pair exclusive Engine-only rates, industry‑leading rewards, and intelligent automation to help businesses save money while delivering world‑class personalization and convenience.

Backed by Telescope Partners, Blackstone, and Permira, Engine has been recognized as one of the fastest‑growing travel and fintech platforms in North America, with honors including the Deloitte Fast 500 and Built In's Best Places to Work.

Your Mission

As Senior Product Manager for Payments, you'll own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for a mission‑critical part of Engine's business: enabling seamless payments acceptance and issuing capabilities. Payments sits at the intersection of fintech innovation and customer experience, and it powers acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization. You'll work across engineering, design, partnerships, and go to market to evolve and expand a mature payments platform into what Engine needs next.

• Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for a suite of payments and fintech products, including payment acceptance, card issuing, and the financial infrastructure that underpins everything customers transact on Engine.
• Expand Engine's payments capabilities by integrating new payment methods, card programs, and financial partners, balancing long term platform bets against near term customer and revenue wins.
• Partner closely with Business Development and other Product leaders to shape and land partnerships that materially expand what Engine's payments ecosystem can do.
• Work with cross functional design, engineering, marketing, CX, and sales partners to bring initiatives to life from initial ideation through post launch, and set the bar for how the work gets shipped.
• Raise the AI bar across Payments. Use AI in how you work day to day, and build AI‑native experiences into the product where they meaningfully change how customers pay, get paid, and manage spend.
• Hold the room. Represent Payments in exec conversations, cross functional forums, and customer deep dives, and make sure people understand what Payments is building and why.

What You'll Bring to Engine

• Experience: 6+ years in product management, with meaningful time spent on technical or platform products. You've owned complex backend systems end to end and shipped products that other teams and customers depend on.
• Bonus Points: Direct experience in payments, credit cards, or fintech, with hands‑on exposure to payment acceptance, card issuing, or related systems like authorization, settlement, and reconciliation.
• Technical Depth: Comfort going deep with engineering on architecture, tradeoffs, and system design. You can hold your own in a technical review and turn ambiguity into a crisp plan.
• Systems Thinking: You can build cross functional systems from zero and scale them with a long term lens. You zoom out to strategy and zoom in to execution with equal comfort.
• Customer Obsession: Even on a platform, you keep the end customer in view. You know that infrastructure decisions eventually show up in the customer experience, and you design for that.
• AI Fluency: You use AI tools daily and have a clear point of view on where they change the game for product teams and for payments. You've shipped AI‑powered features or workflows, know the difference between real value and hype, and you push the teams around you to adopt AI in both how they work and what they build.
• Mindset: You're a builder at heart, hands on, collaborative, and excited to help scale one of Engine's most important platforms.

Compensation

Our compensation packages are based on several factors, including your experience, expertise, and location. In addition to a competitive base salary, total compensation may include equity and/or variable pay (OTE). Your recruiter will share your complete compensation package as you move through the process.

Base Pay Range

$153,935—$213,000 USD

The Engine Edge: Perks & Compensation

We believe in rewarding great work with great benefits:

• Compensation: Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity.
• Benefits: Check out our full list at engine.com/culture.
• Environments for Success: Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we'll make sure you have what you need to succeed.

Perks and benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and more.