Principal Payments Product Architect

What you'll do:

• Serve as an internal expert on the payments systems
• Partner on the payment’s product strategy
• Unlock opportunities for Versapays customers with payments partners
• Create reference architectural designs and custom solutions that develop and employ our payments platforms in ways that uplevel and inform while delivering on Customer/partner needs
• Assess partners and vendors for customer needs and product roadmap
• Demonstrate a deep understanding of internal invoice to cash and payments applications, articulating designs that create a compounding platform value for our users. Lead forward-looking design and investment in those to evolve those platforms
• Use that understanding to write detailed requirements and lead the execution of payments platform initiatives
• Review partner and vendor API documentation and functional specs to translate to the Versapay ecosystem
• Act as a trusted advisor to Product Management, Engineering, and external teams on complex solution design and implementation best practices.
• Work directly with Customers and partners to guide design decisions, to develop creative technical solutions, and to lead execution of those solutions
• Educate our product and engineering teams on market trends and strongly influence the product roadmap
• Be outside in: Serve as an internal “voice of the Customer” and provide critical insights into market trends, technologies, and money movement trends.

What you'll bring to the team:

• 8+ years in business payments product or strategy experience
• 5+ years working with cross functional teams as a technical product owner in an agile development process
• Possess deep analysis thinking and proven ability to interpret information to inform decision-making
• Fintech and identity vendor partner experiences
• Deep expertise on the payment rail systems and messaging systems
• Knowledge of machine learning models & credit decisioning frameworks
• Knowledge of API specifications, file formats and messaging systems
• Operate in a complex cross-functional environment, leading and influencing others, ultimately resulting in timely tactical decision-making to advance our objectives
• Ability to connect to databases to inspect/change data
• Excellent communication skills to articulate complex payments operations, flows and data concepts to non-technical stakeholders. Strong ability to present to C-level leadership and managing stakeholders.
• “Builder” Mentality: Entrepreneurial and scrappy mindset. Ability to thrive in ambiguous environments with a track record of defining and executing net new initiatives. A desire to solve problems with no obvious path forward.