Senior Product Manager Payments

About the role:

We are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Forter Payments Optimization group reporting directly to the Product Director of Payments. You will be the primary technical product owner responsible for driving the execution of high-impact features and system optimizations within the Payments Optimization roadmap.

You should be a true technical product expert and team player capable of translating the strategic vision defined by the leadership into concrete valuable and feasible product increments and driving those to market with precision.

What youll be doing:

• Roadmap Execution: You will be accountable for the detailed execution of the Payments Optimization roadmap ensuring timely and high-quality delivery of features that align with the strategic goals set by the team. Work closely with our TLV and UK based engineering and data science teams on a daily basis as well as our worldwide GTM teams to promote our product to the world.
• Deep Technical Ownership: Own the technical definition and requirements for innovative payment products. This includes defining clear business logic writing detailed user stories and managing the product backlog.
• Interface & Architecture: Lead the definition of critical platform APIs and data ensuring together with the engineering team seamless high-performance integration with merchant systems PSPs and issuing banks. You will be the product voice in architectural discussions with engineering.
• Payments Expertise: Gain and maintain a deep expert-level understanding of global payment protocols (e.g. 3DS tokenization) regulations (e.g. PSD2/SCA) and authorization signal flows using this knowledge to define precise product requirements.
• You will have fun working with us. Really :)

What youll need:

• Experience: 4 years of experience as a Product Manager demonstrating a strong track record of successful feature execution and technical delivery in complex environments.
• B2B SaaS Background: Proven experience in a B2B SaaS environment with a history of deeply technical product ownership and experience scaling platform features.
• Data & ML Collaboration: Proven experience working intensely with Analytical/Data Science teams defining requirements for ML models and translating data insights into product action.
• Technical Foundation: Strong background in software development or solutions engineering preferably focused on backend high-volume low-latency systems.
• Soft Skills: High level of independence meticulous attention to detail and a strong inner drive to tackle technical challenges and manage dependencies effectively.

Would Be Very Cool If You Have

• Payments Domain: Solid understanding of the payment transaction lifecycle and experience dealing with PSPs acquirers or issuer signals.
• Deep Protocol Knowledge: Hands-on experience with specific payments protocols and regulations such as 3DS/EMVCo tokenization standards and SCA/PSD2.
• Fraud/Risk Experience: Exposure to the digital identity fraud and risk management domains.
• E-commerce/Enterprise: Experience integrating solutions with large-scale global e-commerce companies.

About us:

Digital commerce is built on trust. At every point along the eCommerce journey businesses must make a critical decision: Can I trust this customer Answering this simple question accurately and instantly is powerfulit can accelerate revenue growth and strengthen a companys connection with its customers. How do we do it Forter was founded on the insight that its not about what is being purchased nor where but who is behind the interaction.

The Forter Decision Engine finds patterns across more than one billion identities in our dataset. We isolate fraudsters and protect customersensuring everyone gets the experience they deserve. Given that trust is central to how we operate Forter is very much driven by a defined set of values. We attract remarkable talent and have retention and engagement levels that are well above benchmarks. Were meticulous about strengthening our culture as we grow and ensuring this is an environment where people can have outsized impact.

Trust is backed by data Forter is a recipient of over 10 workplace and innovation awards including:

• Great Place to Work Certification (2024)
• Fortunes Best Workplaces in NYC (and 2024)
• Forbes Cloud 100 (and2025)
• #3 on Fast Companys list of Most Innovative Finance Companies (2022)
• Anti-Fraud Solution of the Year at the Payments Awards (2024)
• SAP Pinnacle Awards New Partner Application Award (2023)
• Fintech Breakthrough Awards Best Fraud Prevention Platform (2023)

Life as a Forterian:

We are a team of over 600 Forterians spread across 3 different continents. Since 2013 weve raised $525 million from investors such as Tiger Global Bessemer Sequoia Capital March Capital and Salesforce Ventures. Were on a mission to bring trust to global digital commerce so that companies like Adobe ASOS eBay Instacart Priceline and Nordstrom can block fraud drive revenue and improve customer experience.

At Forter we believe unique people create unique ideas and valuable experience comes in many forms. So even if your background doesnt match everything we have listed in the job description we still encourage you to apply and tell us why your skills and values could be an asset to us. By welcoming different perspectives we grow together as humans and as a company.

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