Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Whatnot is a live shopping platform that enables people to buy, sell, and discover products through commerce. The Product Manager, Payments will lead the strategy and execution of the core payments platform, including buyer payments, seller payouts, refunds, financial data infrastructure, and incentive instruments. This role partners cross-functionally to drive growth, maintain financial controls, manage risk, and support international expansion.
Responsibilities
- Own the product vision and roadmap for Payments, balancing short-term wins with long-term platform investments that support extremely fast growth and international expansion
- Deeply understand stakeholder needs – from sellers managing their businesses to Finance teams closing monthly books to CX resolving refund disputes; and translate them into clear product strategies and scalable systems
- Define and own core payments metrics including authorization rates, payout success, refund rates, processing costs, and financial accuracy. Use these to guide prioritization and measure impact
- Drive execution across multiple workstreams, coordinating backend payments systems, payment integrations, and frontend UX while managing dependencies and timelines
- Build the financial data foundation the business needs, including ledger systems that power internal reporting, seller transparency and tools they need, and accurate month-end closes
- Partner cross-functionally with Finance, Legal, Trust & Safety, CX, and Operations to ensure compliance, manage risk appropriately, and support efficient operations at scale
- Establish metrics and experimentation frameworks to validate performance, test new capabilities, and continuously improve outcomes for users and internal teams
Skills
- Team members in this role must live within commuting distance of our San Francisco, Seattle, Los Angeles, or New York City hubs
- 10+ years of product management experience with significant focus on payments products and platforms (card/alternative payments, payouts, refunds, chargebacks, ledger systems)
- Proven experience owning high-volume, mission-critical payments systems at marketplace, fintech or platform companies, including deep familiarity with processors like Stripe, Braintree, Adyen, or similar
- Strong product leadership, including setting strategy, influencing cross-functional partners, and driving complex initiatives from 0→1 and 1→N
- Deep understanding of financial data, reconciliation, and reporting, particularly supporting Finance, Accounting, and month-end close processes in high-transaction-volume environments
- Demonstrated ability to work in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, making sound decisions with imperfect information and balancing speed with risk and quality
- Proven track record using data and experimentation to inform product decisions, measure impact, and iterate on complex systems
- Strong product discovery and execution skills, translating multi-stakeholder problems into clear requirements and simple, intuitive experiences
- Excellent cross-functional communication, with experience partnering closely with Engineering, Design, Finance, Legal, CX/Ops, and risk-oriented teams
- High empathy for users and stakeholders, with passion for building trustworthy, transparent financial experiences
- Experience in a marketplace or multi-sided platform where payments, incentives, and marketplace dynamics are tightly coupled
Benefits
- Offers Equity
- Generous Holiday and Time off Policy
- Health Insurance options including Medical, Dental, Vision
- Work From Home Support
- Home office setup allowance
- Monthly allowance for cell phone and internet
- Care benefits
- Monthly allowance for wellness
- Annual allowance towards Childcare
- Lifetime benefit for family planning, such as adoption or fertility expenses
- Retirement; 401k offering for Traditional and Roth accounts in the US (employer match up to 4% of base salary) and Pension plans internationally
- Monthly allowance to dogfood the app
- Parental Leave
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave + one month gradual return to work
- Flexibility to work from home or from one of our global office hubs
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