Senior Technical Platform Product Manager – Payments Infrastructure & 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

$160000 - $180000

Senior Technical Platform Product Manager – Payments Infrastructure & Agentic AI

New York, NY (Hybrid)

Our client is a large-scale commerce technology organization operating high-volume transaction systems across consumer and enterprise markets. Within a group focused on emerging technology, they are building the next generation of transaction infrastructure — moving beyond traditional processing architectures toward autonomous, agent-driven commerce.

In this role, you will own the platform roadmap connecting core transaction infrastructure with emerging agentic AI architectures. As a Technical Platform PM, you will build 0-to-1 APIs, developer frameworks, and transaction protocols that allow autonomous AI agents to discover, authorize, and execute secure commercial interactions. Working daily with platform engineers, solutions architects, risk partners, and external AI research teams, you will translate emerging agent communication models into production-grade capabilities operating at significant scale.

Requirements

• 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 Model Context Protocol (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, Payment Service Providers (PSPs), and enterprise merchants.

• Strong technical background capable of evaluating architectural tradeoffs, defining API schemas, and partnering closely with systems 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 administrative dashboards.

• Monitor advancements across the autonomous AI landscape and translate them into a durable, multi-year technical platform roadmap.

Compensation & Benefits

Competitive base salary plus performance bonus, strong 401(k) match, comprehensive medical and dental coverage, and an industry-leading parental leave policy. Hybrid schedule combining focused remote work with collaborative in-office time, supported by a culture emphasizing technical autonomy and career progression.

Motion Recruitment Partners (MRP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All applicants must be currently authorized to work on a full-time basis in the country for which they are applying, and no sponsorship is currently available. Employment is subject to the successful completion of a pre-employment screening. Accommodation will be provided in all parts of the hiring process as required under MRP’s Employment Accommodation policy. Applicants need to make their needs known in advance.