Staff Product Manager - Remote

Company Description

At PayNearMe, we’re on a mission to make paying and getting paid as simple as possible. We build innovative technology that transforms the way businesses and their customers experience payments. Our industry-leading platform, PayXM™, is the first of its kind—designed to manage the entire payment experience from start to finish. Every click, swipe or tap is seamless, fast and secure, helping non-commerce businesses boost customer satisfaction, accelerate payments, and reduce costs.

Our single platform handles it all: cards, ACH, digital wallets such as PayPal, Venmo, Cash App Pay, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and even cash at more than 62,000 retail locations nationwide. Today, thousands of businesses across consumer lending, iGaming and online sports betting, property management, and tolling trust PayNearMe to deliver a payment experience that drives real results.

In September 2025, we raised a $50 million Series E funding round to accelerate our growth. 

We’re a team of 200+ employees across 41 states, headquartered in Silicon Valley with satellite offices in Dallas, TX and Holmdel, NJ.

Join us and be part of a team that’s shaping the future of payments—one experience at a time.

Job Description

We are looking for a Staff Product Manager to represent client and vertical needs to shape product strategy and influence our platform roadmap. In this role, you’ll translate client and vertical insights, competitive trends, and market signals into clear, validated problem statements that inform product direction.

This is a highly visible, cross-functional role where you’ll partner with Product, Engineering, Sales, Client Success, and Executive leadership to identify opportunities, prioritize investments, and shape the future of our platform.

Responsibilities

• Provide vertical and client insights that inform multi-year strategy and investment themes
• Synthesize client usage, market research, competitive analysis, and client feedback into actionable insights.
• Own specific payment verticals, helping to define and deliver success of PayNearMe and our clients in the vertical
• Lead discovery on new product features and capabilities to help drive growth within the defined vertical and across the organization
• Partner with Product Managers to help align roadmaps across the core platform.
• Engage with strategic clients to understand needs, validate opportunities, and influence direction.
• Communicate product vision and priorities and how they connect to the product vision, across teams and stakeholders.
• Collaborate with GTM teams to support strategic initiatives and market positioning.
• While not responsible for delivery of the features contained within the roadmap, work with the GTM teams on positioning and pricing of new features based on market needs and trends.
• Provide thought leadership on industry trends and emerging opportunities.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of product management experience, including strategic or platform-level work.
• Strong understanding of market dynamics in fintech, payments, bill pay, or related industries.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills, especially with senior leadership.
• Proven ability to drive clarity, make strategic tradeoffs, and align teams.
• Strong analytical skills and experience interpreting market data and client insights.
• Curiosity, adaptability, and a passion for solving complex, cross-functional problems.

Additional Information

Why Join Us?:

• Competitive salary and benefits with growth-company options grant
• Fast- paced and professional work culture
• Stock options with standard startup vesting - 1 year cliff; 4 years total
• $50 monthly communication expense stipend to go towards your phone/internet bill
• $250 stipend to enhance your WFH setup
• Reimbursement for peripheral equipment: monitor (up to $400), keyboard and mouse (up to $200)
• Premium medical benefits including vision and dental (100% coverage for employees)
• Company-sponsored life and disability insurance
• Paid parental bonding leave
• Paid sick leave, jury duty, bereavement
• 401k plan
• Flexible Time Off (our team members typically take off ~3-4 weeks per year)
• Volunteer Time Off
• 13 scheduled holidays

Salary Range: $185,000 - 235,000

PayNearMe strives to create a workplace where all employees thrive. Our core values represent who we are today and we take pride in the way we work with each other as well as with our stakeholders.

We’re in this together to do the right thing. We deliver real results