Principal Product Manager - Payments Platform

Flywire
Spain
Workplace: HybridFull timeFunction: Product ManagementSkills: ["Strategic thinking","Cross-functional collaboration","Influence without authority","Metrics-driven decisioning","Execution under ambiguity"]

Own the routing, orchestration, and connectivity strategy for a core payments platform. Lead a connected 3-year product vision covering smart routing, normalized payment APIs, and end-to-end payment lifecycle visibility across pay-ins and payouts. Partner with engineering, data science, risk, treasury, operations, and commercial teams to build business cases, drive platform architecture, and improve authorization performance, reliability, conversion, and processing economics.

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Flywire
Flywire
2 days ago

Principal Product Manager - Payments Platform

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Job Summary

Own the routing, orchestration, and connectivity strategy for a core payments platform. Lead a connected 3-year product vision covering smart routing, normalized payment APIs, and end-to-end payment lifecycle visibility across pay-ins and payouts. Partner with engineering, data science, risk, treasury, operations, and commercial teams to build business cases, drive platform architecture, and improve authorization performance, reliability, conversion, and processing economics.
Location: Spain
Workplace: Hybrid
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the routing and orchestration roadmap and partner with domain PMs to shape an integrated platform roadmap across acceptance, pricing, onboarding, risk, and payouts.
  • •Build intelligent routing to improve authorization performance, reliability, conversion, and processing economics.
  • •Shape scalable connectivity across processors, acquirers, card networks, banks, and regional payment rails (e.g., ACH, SEPA, Faster Payments).
  • •Establish normalized payment APIs and lifecycle states, statuses, and provider outcomes across card and bank payments.
  • •Collaborate with engineering and cross-functional teams to deliver a resilient global payments platform and influence platform and architecture strategy for routing and provider connectivity.

Pay and Benefits

Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:EquityRemote Work

Key Requirements

  • •Build payment-processing, orchestration, routing, connectivity, or gateway platforms at scale as a senior, hands-on product leader.
  • •Deep expertise in end-to-end money movement, including acceptance, settlement, refunds, returns, reconciliation, and payouts.
  • •Proven experience integrating with processors, acquirers, card networks, banks, and alternative payment providers.
  • •Strong knowledge of card payments and bank rails such as ACH, SEPA, Faster Payments, wires, or real-time payment networks.
  • •Professional fluency in English and valid work authorization to work in Spain/EU.
Skills:Strategic thinkingCross-functional collaborationInfluence without authorityMetrics-driven decisioningExecution under ambiguity
Languages:English (UK)
Tech Stack:Payment routingPayment orchestrationNormalized APIsAuthorization performanceACHSEPAFaster PaymentsCard networksProcessorsAcquirersBanksPayment lifecycle

Eligibility

Work Authorization:Authorization required. Sponsorship not provided.

Company Brief

Flywire
Provides a global payments platform and vertical-specific software to enable complex cross-border and domestic receivables for education, healthcare, travel and B2B clients, streamlining payments, reconciliation and receivables workflows.
Industry: Payments
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 100M to 250M
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Boston, United States
Founded: 2009
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