Group Product Manager (Payments Core)

Role Overview

Join Coinbase as Group Product Manager (Payments Core), owning the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for core payment processing infrastructure. You’ll lead work across payment method integrations, multi-partner processing systems, and the payment lifecycle while shaping how Payment Core responds to evolving regulatory requirements.

Key Missions

• Own the product vision and multi-year roadmap for core payment processing infrastructure and payment method integrations.
• Optimize core payment funnels to improve success rates, reduce transaction costs, and increase the share of transaction-ready payment methods.
• Lead multi-partner payments infrastructure strategy and execution, including partner routing, redundancy, and failover to maximize reliability and cost efficiency.

What You’ll Do

• Partner deeply with engineering on system architecture, APIs, reliability engineering, and distributed systems for payment processing at scale.
• Lead cross-functional alignment with engineering, finance, compliance, and business stakeholders, communicating platform strategy and investment tradeoffs to senior/executive leadership.
• Drive complex cross-functional initiatives in highly regulated environments across product, engineering, finance, compliance, and operations.

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience.
• Deep expertise in payments infrastructure / payment processing / fintech platforms.
• Track record of owning and driving product strategy for large-scale payment processing systems, including building or scaling payment rails, bank/network integrations, routing/processing systems, or payment method platforms.
• Proven ability to lead through influence, driving alignment across stakeholders.
• Demonstrated experience operating in highly regulated contexts.

Nice-to-Haves

• Responsible use of generative AI with human oversight to improve workflow efficiency, cost, and quality.