Technical Product Manager, WPC – Issuer Products

This role will help scale and advance the Apple Pay ecosystem in the US by working with leading issuers payment networks PSPs payment processors FinTechs and channel partners to deliver seamless Apple Pay experiences and scale issuer product features across the seeking a payments product leader to drive the technical growth of Apple Pay issuer products in the US. You will provide deep subject-matter expertise during initial engagements with new partners define and execute strategies to enable and scale issuer features and lead the implementation of new features with existing strategic partners. You will own the end-to-end issuer product experience ensuring every transaction is reliable secure and performant across the payment stack.

In this role you will collaborate closely with BD Product Developer Relations and engineering teams to scale Apple Pay issuer products across leading issuers in the will drive partner integrations design scalable technical solutions and communicate clearly with internal and external stakeholders across the US payments landscape (including issuing banks and card networks).nnYou will work hands-on with a variety of ecosystem partners such as issuers strategic merchants PSPs payment processors networks FinTechs POS/acquirer vendors and labs to resolve issues enable new capabilities and maintain strong technical relationships that directly impact business will lead multiple Apple Pay projects from conception through execution ensuring alignment across partners and internal teams and partner with the BD team to drive enablement acceptance and adoption at will also evangelize Apple Pay technology drive Wallet adoption by solving customer problems and stay ahead of industry standards and technology trends.

Own the enablement and technical implementation of Apple Pay issuer products across issuers payment networks and with the BD team to drive adoption and scale issuer features across issuers and technical requirements integration and testing plans and launch milestones in collaboration with cross-functional partner onboarding and implementations end-to-end resolving technical blockers and driving execution across internal ongoing technical support and feature enablement for existing partners to increase conversion and customer partner needs into clear technical requirements and product improvements leveraging data and recurring and refine documentation APIs/SDKs and tooling to simplify integrations and reduce partner onboarding as SME on tokenization provisioning network tokenization issuer product flows and Apple Pay flows to guide troubleshooting and partner architecture industry ecosystem trends (tap-to-pay token provisioning network changes and instant payments) and advise internal teams on market-ready enhancements.

8 years of experience as a payments product/program manager ideally within fintech or core payment in the payments industry and digital wallets including experience working with issuers on payment product experience in the digital wallet ecosystem payment networks PSPs and payment to lead complex initiatives with hands-on technical expertise across the payment ecosystem including NFC/contactless payments EMV payment rails gateways PSPs acquirers and payment ability to communicate effectively with partners and stakeholders at all analytical and critical thinking skills with the ability to navigate ambiguity and make sound .A./B.S./M.S. EE/CS degree required.

Direct experience working with external partners on cross-channel initiatives and new understanding of Network Tokenization standards NFC technologies EMV contactless 3DS ISO 8583/ISO 20022 RTP WSDL and mobile with US card networks instant payment rails (e.g. FedNow RTP).nExperience with issuer product features such as installment payments card rewards and token-based credential in payment processing mobile payments issuer apps e-commerce and the NFC ecosystem and in issuer or payment ecosystem authentication methods fraud prevention and detection and industry best with alternate payment methods Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) or emerging payment types.