Senior Product Manager, Payments

Senior Product Manager, Payments Location: San Francisco (Rincon Hill) Company Overview 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 Application 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.