Description
About VGS
VGS is building the trust infrastructure for a new era of commerce. As commerce becomes agentic, payments are increasing dramatically in volume, speed, and complexity, and the companies driving that shift need a foundation they can fully trust. That's where VGS comes in. We're the world's leader in payment tokenization, trusted by the most innovative AI and Fortune 500 companies, merchants, banks, and fintechs to power modern payments and agentic commerce.
About the Role
We are seeking a Product Manager to help drive the evolution of our payments & banking technology. This is a role for a high-agency leader who thrives on technical complexity and demands perfection from their systems. You won't just build features; you will envision new ways of looking at decades-old problems, manage sophisticated relationships and product enhancements with industry experts, and help create the technical foundation on top of which the payments world is built.
Responsibilities
- Product Strategy & Discovery: Meet with banks, processors, customers, partners, and engineering leaders to map complex technical problems to business needs. Define technical requirements, prioritize features, and create roadmaps that align with business objectives.
- Manage complex implementation rollouts that span multiple continents to modernize banking, acquiring, and similar use-cases.
- Ideate a sophisticated and configurable developer-friendly product interface that supports payments technologists, customer implementation specialists, and the business stakeholders that manage the finances.
- Understand, integrate with, and build on top of the pre-existing products, platforms, and concepts within the VGS ecosystem.
Requirements
- Experience: 10+ years of experience in payments technology as a software engineer, product manager, or related functions. Must have experience launching new initiatives that involve designing and building APIs, O11y, private networking, enterprise authentication systems, and other software developer-related technologies.
- Deep experience working in banking and/or payments gateways in a way that is either directly interacting with the networks or the acquirer/issuer processors.
- T-Shaped Technical Mastery: This position requires a broad proficiency across the payments ecosystem.
- Technical Conviction: You have strong, well-founded opinions on software architecture.
- Communication Skills: This position involves communicating new ideas to prospects, customers, executives, GTM leaders, and implementation teams.
Nice to Have
- Experience with tokenization, payment processing, or security products
- BA/BS degree
- A knack for out-of-the-box thinking that thrives in a fast-paced startup environment
- Experience working with GTM teams to bring new products to market.
- Experience working in the payments/data tokenization space directly.
How We Work
At VGS, we embrace a remote-first philosophy because we believe flexibility leads to great work and a healthy work-life balance.
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- 401 (k) with a 4% match and immediate vesting (applies to US only)
- Early equity
- Internet Stipend
- Learning Stipend
- Office set-up stipend (applies to US only)
- Insurance (medical, dental, and vision)
- HSA/FSA Options
- Life and disability insurance
- Pet insurance
- Flexible PTO
- Paid national holidays
- Global parental leave program
- Promote from within
- Lunch and learns
- Team events and summits
- Remote and hybrid opportunities
- Flexible working hours
- Weekly office lunches
- Employee discount platform