Staff Product Manager, Payments Orchestration & Intelligence
LightsparkPayments company
Los Angeles, United StatesLead
Andreessen Horowitz
Paradigm
Coatue
Thrive Capital
Ribbit Capital
Matrix Partners
Product
About the role
TL;DR
Architect of Lightspark’s core transaction engine, optimizing AI Router and Grid Switch.
- •As the Staff Product Manager for Payments Orchestration & Intelligence, you will be the architect of Lightspark’s core transaction engine.
- •You will own the strategy for our AI Routing and Grid Switch, determining how money is routed across disparate global financial networks and domestic real-time rails (RTP) to maximize success and minimize cost.
- •Key Responsibilities Lead Payment Orchestration: Define the roadmap for our AI Router and Grid Switch, building the intelligent pathfinding logic that optimizes for transaction success rates (TSR), latency, and cost.
- •Scale Global Connectivity: Drive the expansion into domestic payment rails (e.g., SPEI, UPI, SEPA) and manage the technical and regulatory complexities of global interoperability.
- •Own the "Closed Loop": Design the strategy for internal and customer-facing observability dashboards and automated reconciliation workflows to ensure institutional-grade financial integrity.
- •Drive Vertical Innovation: Lead high-value customer engagements from initial scoping to deployment, owning the end-to-end delivery of feature sets like P2P/B2B payments and regional pay-in solutions.
- •Negotiate Network Resilience: Partner with Business Development to engage with financial partners, negotiating limits and unlocking new feature expansions to ensure a robust, high-performance network.
- •Requirements Deep Payment Expertise: 7+ years of experience in global payment infrastructure.
- •You have "under-the-hood" knowledge of funds flows and understand exactly how domestic rails settle.
- •Technical & Strategic Fluency: You are equally comfortable collaborating with engineers on backend system architecture as you are navigating complex partner negotiations with Business Development.
- •The "0 to 1" Mindset: You have a proven track record of bringing clarity to ambiguous environments and building scalable B2B solutions from scratch.
- •AI-Native Builder: You effectively use AI tools to amplify your impact and possess a genuine curiosity for how rapidly changing technologies can be integrated into payment systems.
- •Grit & Adaptability: You thrive in fast-paced startup environments and are ready to "roll up your sleeves" to solve detailed money movement challenges at scale.
- •Systems Thinking: You obsess over edge cases, failure scenarios, and performance benchmarks (SLAs), ensuring our platform remains resilient under enterprise-grade volume.
- •Preferred: Familiarity with digital assets, the Lightning Network, or programmable money.
Required skills
Product ManagementAgileStrategic Planning
Nice-to-have skills
Technical LeadershipEngineering ManagementProject ManagementBusiness DevelopmentSalesNegotiation
Domain expertise
fintech