Senior Product Manager, Payments Processing
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Job Location:
Jersey, NJ - USA
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
16 hours ago
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly technical datadriven Product Manager to lead the evolution of our Payment Routing Intelligence Layer and Platform Integration capabilities. This role focuses on building the smart infrastructure that powers routing logic processor selection failover flows transaction optimization and the foundational integration layer that connects to our payments ecosystem.
You will partner closely with Engineering Payments Risk Fraud Data Science and Compliance to deliver a platform that maximizes payment success rates reduces cost expands reach and ensures resilience at scale.
This is a critical IC role within the Payments Product team focused on deep platformlevel capabilities not just UI.
Responsibilities
Product Execution & Platform Ownership
- End-to-end ownership of the Payment Routing Engine and Intelligence Layer
- Platform integration layer capabilities (API orchestration connector framework abstraction layers)
- Routing logic based on cost performance user attributes payment type geography and risk signals
- Realtime failover and fallback capabilities to drive guaranteed payment completion
- Partnering with Engineering to deliver a scalable resilient high availability payments platform
- Ensure Payment Routing Engine and Intelligence Layer is compatible with the architecture and process flows with other areas including vendors risk intelligence and fraud
Key KPI Influence
You will meaningfully impact:
- Payment authorization rate
- Cost per transaction / payment optimization
- Latency & processing time
- Payment processor uptime & resilience
- Routing decision accuracy & performance
- Payment failure rate & forced fallback events
- Timetointegrate new processors
- Operational load for Payments Risk and Fraud teams
- External vendors SLAs and performance
Responsibilities
- Own daytoday product delivery for routing logic processor integrations and intelligence algorithms
- Define the roadmap for the integration layer routing engine and optimization capabilities
- Partner with Engineering on system design architecture tradeoffs and API requirements
- Collaborate with Data Science to incorporate machine learning scoring or signalbased routing
- Conduct deep analysis on authorization declines routing failures and regional optimization gaps
- Evaluate new payment processors wallets and banking partners for integration and remain an expert in the payments industry
- Develop frameworks for routing experiments and multivariate routing logic
- Ensure compliance and risk signals are embedded into routing and decision flows
- Partner with internal teams to continuously refine routing rules fallback paths and error handling
- Influence the platform strategy to enable scalability global expansion and modular payment integrations
- Own the prioritization framework and process to balance business engineering and stakeholder requirements
Qualifications
- 46 years in Product Management with strong experience in payments fintech platform infrastructure or API products
- Handson experience with payment processors routing logic or backend payment platforms
- Familiarity with API-driven integrations service-oriented architectures or platform engineering
- Experience working with Engineering Data Science and Payments Operations
- Background in optimizing transactional systems or high-volume distributed systems a plus
Skills
- Strong technical fluency able to collaborate deeply with architects and engineers
- Highly analytical with expertise in funnel metrics performance optimization and rootcause analysis
- Excellent communication skills capable of translating technical concepts into business impact
- Comfortable making tradeoffs between latency cost reliability and complexity
- Owned and delivered on product roadmap
- Strong stakeholder management across Payments Fraud Risk and Compliance
- Customerobsessed with a passion for reliability and seamless payment experiences
The salary range for this position is $XXXXXX - $XXXXXX USD which is dependent on a several factors including relevant experience geography business needs and market demand. This role may offer the following benefits: medical vision and dental insurance; life insurance; disability insurance; a 401(k)-matching program; among other employee benefits. This role may also be eligible for short-term or long-term incentive compensation including but not limited to cash bonuses and stock program participation. This role includes paid Flexible Time Off and paid company holidays.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Key Skills
About Company
At Caesars Digital, We Don’t Just Play the Game — We Set the Standard. As a proud part of Caesars Entertainment, the world’s premier gaming company with more than 80 years of sports betting leadership, Caesars Digital is Blazing The Trail in digital innovation, customer experience and ... View more
