At Papaya Global, we are committed to revolutionizing the global payroll and payments industry by leveraging cutting-edge technology and innovative solutions. Our mission is to provide businesses with a comprehensive, user-friendly Payroll Operation System that streamlines payroll and payment processes while ensuring compliance with local regulations in more than 180 countries.
In this fast-paced, dynamic environment, you'll have the opportunity to make a real impact on the future of work. If you're a self-starter with a passion for innovation and a commitment to excellence, we want to hear from you. As a member of our team, you'll have access to a wide range of resources and support to help you succeed, including ongoing training and professional development.
We are seeking a Senior Product Leader with deep expertise in the payments industry and strong management experience. The ideal candidate will have a solid track record of building and scaling complex platforms, leading high-performing teams, and driving product innovation in a fast-paced environment. You will be responsible for setting the strategy and vision for our payments and platform products, ensuring they align with Papaya’s broader business objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
- Set, drive, and execute the product strategy for Papaya Global’s leading platform to enable complex data workflows and payment processes at scale.
- Attract, build, manage, and develop a talented, diverse, equitable, and inclusive team of product managers and product leaders.
- Lead a team through the ideation, technical development, and launch of innovative payments and platform products.
- Drive product development with a team of world-class engineers and designers, focusing on card payments, digital wallets, and cross-border payment solutions.
- Manage multiple products and priorities, scale teams, and ensure the organization is effective, healthy, and set up for success by establishing clear and measurable goals.
- Identify strategic areas of new investment and generate budget models for product expansion.
- Work closely with other teams at Papaya Global to ensure efficient and productive working relationships.
- Understand the market and competition, and champion our users to craft product strategies that will lead to long-term success.
- Lead by example—be incredibly truth-seeking and data-driven, set a high bar for the team to think boldly and creatively, and translate that energy into concrete product and execution plans.
- Build strategic partnerships with payment providers, fintech companies, and banking institutions.
- Stay up-to-date on industry trends and leverage this knowledge to inform product strategy.
Why Papaya Global?
- Make a real impact on the future of global payroll and payments.
- Join a fast-growing, diverse team committed to innovation and excellence.
- Access a wide range of resources and support for professional development and growth.
If you’re excited about the opportunity to lead and innovate in the global payroll and payments space, we want to hear from you!
- 12+ years of experience in Product Management, working collaboratively with engineering, design, and user research teams.
- 8+ years of experience hiring, managing, and developing both individual contributors and senior product leaders.
- 8+ years of experience leading teams and driving strategy at SaaS/PaaS businesses.
- Deep understanding of the payments industry, including card payments, digital wallets, and payment network management.
- A high bar across the board—from your own contributions to the people you work with to the products you build.
- Hands-on experience building platforms, implementing API/services layers, and deconstructing data monoliths.
- Experience with system telemetry, logging, and measurement.
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate complex business requirements into actionable product features.
- Excellent communication skills—equally comfortable explaining your team's analysis and recommendations to executives as you are discussing technical trade-offs in product development with engineers.
- BA/BS in Computer Science or related field; technical understanding must go from the highest abstractions down to the hardware.
- Experience building 1-N products, platform/ecosystem products.
- Background in engineering, data, and analytics, with experience shipping production internal and external platforms.
- Love for team-building and eagerness for sleeves-up design and architecture collaboration with engineering.
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