Senior Product Manager, Payments

About Meridian Softworks 🚀 Meridian Softworks turns accounts receivable (AR) into a competitive advantage. Inefficient AR processes slow cash flow and stall growth. Meridian Softworks removes friction, unlocks working capital, and accelerates momentum — giving finance leaders the clarity and control they need to drive business forward. Meridian Softworks automates accounts receivable, removing barriers to collecting and reconciling B2B payments. Our solutions connect finance teams, customers, and business systems in one ecosystem to ensure cash flow clarity. With over 10,000 customers and 5M+ companies transacting on the platform, Meridian Softworks processes over 110M transactions and $257B annually. Think you might be the next Veep to join? Read on!! How you’ll make an impact here – and on your career: Product management at Meridian Softworks is a craft that blends strategic thinking, customer empathy, and strong execution. As Senior Product Manager, Payments , you will own the end-to-end payments product and experience , from customer-facing workflows through underlying processing, settlement, and partner integrations. In this role, you will be accountable for the vision, strategy, and delivery of our payments capabilities, with a particular focus on our payment processing gateway and broader payments ecosystem. You will operate with a holistic mindset—owning outcomes across reliability, usability, scalability, and commercial performance—rather than isolated features. This role pairs deep payments domain ownership with modern product management practices. You will lead end-to-end product development, drive customer and business value through data-informed decisions, and collaborate across engineering, design, and go-to-market teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and innovative payments experiences. You will also regularly represent the payments product strategy and performance to senior leadership, influencing direction and investment decisions. This is an opportunity for a product leader who thrives in complexity, is energized by ambiguity, and is excited to help grow and modernize a global payments platform. What you'll do: Product Strategy & Vision Own and articulate a clear product vision and strategy for payments, aligned with company objectives and growth plans. Take a holistic view of the end-to-end payments experience, ensuring customer, operational, and platform considerations are tightly integrated. Define and evolve the payments roadmap, balancing customer needs, regulatory requirements, operational scalability, and commercial outcomes. Stay current on industry trends, emerging payment methods, and competitive offerings to inform strategy and prioritization. Identify opportunities for cross-product alignment, standardization, and platform unification across the broader product portfolio. End-to-End Product Ownership Lead payments products through the full product development lifecycle, from discovery and ideation through launch and continuous improvement. Partner closely with engineering and design to translate customer problems into well-defined requirements, epics, and user stories. Prioritize the product backlog based on customer impact, business value, and technical feasibility. Drive high-quality execution across multiple workstreams while maintaining a strong bias toward action Payments Domain Leadership Serve as the subject-matter expert for payments, including payment gateways, processors, payment facilitators, settlement, and funding flows. Own integrations and relationships with major processors and partners (e.g., Adyen , Fiserv, Global Payments). Ensure products are built with a strong understanding of payments operations, risk, compliance, and scalability. Help shape the future of our payments infrastructure to support global growth. Customer & Market Insight Be the expert on the customer: deeply understand who is using our payments products, what problems they are trying to solve, and how success is measured. Conduct market research, customer interviews, and data analysis to identify opportunities and validate solutions. Design hypotheses and experiments to test assumptions and drive learning. Data-Driven Decision Making Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure product success across adoption, revenue, reliability, and customer outcomes. Use product analytics, customer feedback, and operational data to inform prioritization and identify areas for improvement. Present product strategy, progress, and performance to senior leadership and executive stakeholders. Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence Lead and influence cross-functional teams across engineering, design, sales, marketing, professional services, and customer success. Act as the primary point of contact for payments products, aligning internal teams and external partners around shared goals. Facilitate agile ceremonies and ensure teams are focused on delivering the highest-impact outcomes. Go-To-Market & Adoption Partner with go-to-market teams to define