Group Product Manager

Valor PayTech is seeking a hands-on Group Product Manager to own product areas end-to-end and drive delivery through engineering across multiple scrum teams. This role involves turning strategy and customer needs into requirements and shipped product, ensuring disciplined execution and collaboration with remote engineering teams.

Responsibilities:

• Own one or more product areas end-to-end—from requirements and backlog through release and post-release iteration
• Translate product strategy, customer needs, and business goals into crisp requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria
• Contribute to the roadmap and prioritization; make and defend scope and trade-off decisions at the feature and release level
• Define and track success metrics for your areas (adoption, quality, time-to-value) and act on them
• Apply strong, hands-on knowledge of payments acquiring, processing, and merchant services across card-present, card-not-present, and emerging channels
• Drive product detail for POS and payment terminal experiences, including device, gateway, and processor integration considerations
• Work with processors, gateways, card networks, and OEM/hardware partners on capabilities, edge cases, and certification needs
• Account for payments standards and regulation (PCI-DSS, card network rules, 3DS, tokenization) in requirements and acceptance criteria
• Drive delivery through engineering across multiple scrum teams—getting things done end-to-end across the full SDLC
• Run tight scrum: backlog grooming, sprint planning, standups, reviews, and retrospectives; keep teams unblocked and aligned to priorities
• Own requirements-to-release execution, including release readiness, cross-team coordination, and post-release validation and iteration
• Maintain backlog hygiene and a predictable release cadence; manage dependencies and risks across teams
• Adopt AI tools that demonstrably advance product and engineering productivity—accelerating requirement definition, documentation, and delivery
• Lead through influence—aligning engineering, QA, design, architecture, security, and operations around shared outcomes
• Partner with the Director of Product and senior stakeholders; communicate status, risks, and trade-offs clearly
• Represent the voice of the customer—ISOs, merchants, and partners—throughout delivery
• Mentor junior product managers and help raise product-craft standards across the team

Requirements:

• 8–12 years of product management experience (depending on domain proficiency and other factors), with a strong hands-on delivery track record
• Strong knowledge and experience in payments acquiring, processing, and merchant services
• Hands-on experience with POS and payment terminals
• Demonstrated success driving delivery through engineering across multiple scrum teams, with full involvement in the SDLC
• Proven experience owning product areas from requirements through release and post-release
• Strong scrum/agile discipline—backlog management, sprint execution, and release coordination
• Experience applying AI tools that factually advance product and engineering productivity
• Analytical, data-driven approach; comfort with product analytics, experimentation, and KPI tracking
• Experience in a platform, multi-tenant, or ISO/merchant and partner-ecosystem model
• Working knowledge of payments processors and partners (e.g., TSYS, Fiserv/First Data, Elavon) and gateway/integration patterns
• Familiarity with modern product and delivery tooling (e.g., Jira, roadmap and discovery tools)
• Technical fluency to engage engineering on APIs, integrations, and system design
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field; technical or commercial background a plus