Product Manager, Payments

  • Full-time

Company Description

We believe the economy is better when everyone has access. When everyone has room to grow. No one should be left out because the cost is too great or the technology too complex. We started with a little white credit card reader but haven’t stopped there. We’re empowering the independent electrician to send invoices, setting up the favorite food truck with a delivery option, helping the ice cream shop pay its employees, and giving the burgeoning coffee chain capital for a second, third, and fourth location. We’re here to help sellers of all sizes start, run, and grow their business—and helping them grow their business is good business for everyone.

Job Description

We are excited by builders passionate about making the Square Payment Platform the best platform for financial services. The Payment Platform powers all money movement for Square, allowing product teams to focus on remarkable experiences. We believe a general purpose platform of composable building blocks will accelerate product delivery. This is how we empower Square and 3rd-party developers to innovative on behalf of our sellers.

As a product manager, Payment Platform, you will lead the direction of the Square Payment Platform by setting vision/strategy and partnering with the engineering manager of your sprint team to drive execution. Our payment platform spans identity, payment acceptance, banking services, and ML and data products—from foundational services to public APIs and SDKs. You'll advocate for the voice of our sellers and developers to deliver a reliable, scalable, and secure platform that makes Square go faster.

You will:

  • Identify market opportunities, build business cases and determine product strategy

  • Run your product like a business: manage the entire product life cycle from ideation, to planning and execution

  • Understand the jobs to be done for the platform, synthesize those needs to shape the product roadmap, and establish key metrics

  • Hypothesize, measure, and learn. Continuously test and use insights to inform decisions

  • Collaborate with engineers, product marketers and designers to build the product

  • Communicate progress on initiatives to stakeholders, partners and internal teams

  • Represent the team with partners and senior company leaders

Qualifications

You have:

  • 5+ years of product management experience or equivalent

  • Deep understanding and empathy for our customers

  • Passion for our purpose of economic employment and innovation on behalf of our sellers and developers 

  • Ability to think strategically and develop a long-term view of where the Square Payment Platform is heading

  • Expertise launching and scaling platform products with public APIs, SDKs, or toolkits and maintaining them across multiple versions

  • Desire to lead, the ability to guide product strategy and work well with senior engineers and designers

  • Great relationship-building  skills that shine when you’re talking with a customer or engaging a diverse audience

  • Natural curiosity, obsession with the details, desire to build the right thing

  • Technical background and passion for new technology

  • An analytical and metrics-driven work style that leverages data to make informed decisions

Additional Information

At Square, our purpose is to empower – within and outside of our walls. In order to build the best tools for the businesses and customers we support all over the world, we have to start at home with a workforce as diverse and empowered as our sellers. To this end, we take great care to evaluate all employees and job applicants equally, based on merit, competence, and qualifications. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds to apply and always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. Applicants in need of special assistance or accommodation during the interview process or in accessing our website may contact us by sending an email to assistance(at)squareup.com. We will treat your request as confidentially as possible. In your email, please include your name and preferred method of contact, and we will respond as soon as possible. Perks At Square, we want you to be well and thrive. Our global benefits package includes: Healthcare coverage, Retirement Plans, Employee Stock Purchase Program, Meal reimbursements, Wellness perks, Paid parental leave, Flexible time off, Learning and Development resources
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