Senior Product Manager, Payments

Wonderschool; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Full health coverage

Significant equity

Wellness stipend

Travel stipend

Job summary

Wonderschool in San Francisco seeks a Senior Product Manager to own the payments product end-to-end, coordinating a cross-functional team and external fintech partners. You will focus on banking, cards, Stripe, SAP, payroll, and the billing platform, driving reliable, scalable integrations while staying close to customer needs.

You will work directly with customers to understand how money moves in their operations, partner with engineering to ship features, and navigate regulatory requirements

Qualifications

• Senior PM with substantial payments experience and fintech familiarity.
• Strong attention to detail and ability to work close to customers.
• Comfortable in a fast-moving, small team environment and moving quickly.
• Ability to navigate complex regulatory and banking landscapes.

Responsibilities

• Own the payments product roadmap with a dedicated payments team.
• Consolidate a payments platform assembled from legacy integrations.
• Collaborate with fintech partners for integration and reconciliation layers.
• Spend significant time with customers to understand money flows and pain points.
• Partner with engineering to build, ship, measure, and iterate.
• Navigate the laws and regulations governing payments and financial services.
• Own metrics end-to-end, from integration reliability to customer outcomes.

Skills

Payments background

Fintech experience

Detail-oriented

Customer-focused

Tools

Stripe

SAP

Job description

Company Overview

Location: San Francisco (Rincon Hill)

Mission

Make high-quality early childhood education accessible to all by empowering childcare providers with tools and support while helping parents find quality learning environments.

What We're Building

A category-defining platform at the intersection of marketplace, SaaS, and public sector systems, increasingly powered by AI. Series B backed by a16z, Goldman Sachs, and First Round.

The Role

Own our payments product alongside a small, dedicated team. Our platform processes at least $3 billion in payment volume. We move money across a lot of surfaces (banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, and payroll), we run our own billing platform, and we lean on third‑party partners for most of our fintech capabilities, so much of this is integration, orchestration, and tracking work. There is a lot to build here. You will consolidate a system built across many legacy integrations into something clean, reliable, and fast, and you will spend a lot of time directly with customers.

What You'll Do

• Own the payments product roadmap with a dedicated payments team: banking, cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, payroll, and our billing platform
• Consolidate and simplify a payments platform assembled from many legacy system integrations
• Work hands‑on with the fintech partners who power most of our payment capabilities, and own the integration and reconciliation/tracking layer across them
• Spend significant time with customers to understand how money actually moves for them and where it breaks
• Partner daily with engineering to build, ship, measure, and iterate
• Navigate the laws and regulations governing payments and financial services
• Own your metrics end to end, from integration reliability to customer outcomes

Who You Are

• Senior PM with a strong payments background (fintech a plus)
• Exceptionally high attention to detail; strong finance background is a plus
• Excited to be close to the build and close to customers, not managing from a distance
• Likes working on a small team and moving fast; bias toward action
• Comfortable with the regulatory landscape around payments, banking, and cards
• Uses AI tools and figures things out independently

Compensation & Benefits

• Base salary: Competitive market rate
• Equity: Significant, meaningful ownership
• Full health coverage
• Wellness stipend (gym and office)
• Travel stipend for certain circumstances

Apply with your resume and a short note on the most complex payments problem you have owned.

This is a full‑commitment, full‑ownership role. You will work very closely with the CEO, in our San Francisco office five to six days a week.