Product Operations and Strategy Manager
•AbridgeHybrid· 3h
⚙️ Operations⏰ Full-time🎯 Lead / Principal💰 $150k-165k🇺🇸 San Francisco, USA
3h ago
Trueml·6 days ago
About This Role:
As our Payment Operations Manager, you will be the strategic architect of our transactional infrastructure, leading the effort to ensure the seamless, secure, and optimized flow of all electronic payment transactions. Sitting at the critical intersection of finance, technology, compliance, and leadership, you will serve as the organizational expert responsible for the health, scalability, and risk mitigation of our payment ecosystem. Your impact will be direct and far-reaching—driving revenue integrity, championing regulatory adherence, and building a high-performing team to support our growing business scale.
Lead Strategy and Scale: Own the comprehensive strategy for the end-to-end payment lifecycle across all current and future channels (e.g., credit/debit cards, ACH, digital wallets, wire transfers).
Build and Mentor a Team: Take ownership of team growth, initially managing and mentoring one direct report, with the opportunity to scale the function as the company expands.
Optimize and Innovate: Proactively architect payment flows to eliminate operational bottlenecks, championing automation projects that improve processing speeds, maximize authorization rates, and aggressively reduce operational costs.
Manage High-Stakes Relationships: Act as the primary relationship lead and escalation point for third-party payment providers, processors, acquiring banks, and payment gateways, negotiating operational terms to support business goals.
Oversee Incident Response and Integrity: Establish advanced monitoring frameworks to catch system anomalies, rapidly troubleshooting high-priority operational incidents in lockstep with Engineering and Finance leaders.
Govern Compliance and Risk: Design and enforce rigorous daily operational controls and reporting structures to ensure absolute compliance with network rules (e.g., Visa, Mastercard) and strict regulatory standards (e.g., AML, KYC).
Deliver Executive Insights: Transform complex transactional data into high-level operational metrics (fraud trends, settlement timing, chargeback volumes) to provide actionable, strategic recommendations to executive leadership.
An Established Leader: You bring 8 to 15 years of professional experience specifically within the Payments Industry (e.g., FinTech, acquiring banks, payment processors, or high-volume merchant environments), with a readiness or proven track record to manage and grow talent.
An Advanced Payments Expert: You possess a deep, comprehensive mastery of global payment methodologies, including authorization, clearing, and settlement for card networks, as well as alternative networks like ACH, SEPA, and RTP.
Data-Driven and Analytical: You have the technical acumen to leverage data extraction methods, write SQL queries, and interpret heavy datasets to identify macroeconomic operational trends and diagnose systemic root causes of payment failures.
A Cross-Functional Collaborator: You excel at breaking down silos, communicating technical payment concepts clearly to engineering, finance, and legal partners to drive large-scale infrastructure projects forward.