Senior Product Manager, Payments
Wonderschool
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Description
Senior Product Manager, Payments
Location: San Francisco (Rincon Hill)
Company Overview
Mission: Make high-quality early childhood education accessible to all by empowering childcare providers with tools and support while helping parents find quality learning environments.
What We're Building: A category-defining platform at the intersection of marketplace, SaaS, and public sector systems, increasingly powered by AI. Series B backed by a16z, Goldman Sachs, and First Round.
The Role
Own our payments product alongside a small, dedicated team. Our platform processes at least $3 billion in payment volume. We move money across a lot of surfaces (banking, debit cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, and payroll), we run our own billing platform, and we lean on third-party partners for most of our fintech capabilities, so much of this is integration, orchestration, and tracking work. There is a lot to build here. You will consolidate a system built across many legacy integrations into something clean, reliable, and fast, and you will spend a lot of time directly with customers.
What You'll Do
- Own the payments product roadmap with a dedicated payments team: banking, cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, payroll, and our billing platform
- Consolidate and simplify a payments platform assembled from many legacy system integrations
- Work hands-on with the fintech partners who power most of our payment capabilities, and own the integration and reconciliation/tracking layer across them
- Spend significant time with customers to understand how money actually moves for them and where it breaks
- Partner daily with engineering to build, ship, measure, and iterate
- Navigate the laws and regulations governing payments and financial services
- Own your metrics end to end, from integration reliability to customer outcomes
Who You Are
- Senior PM with a strong payments background (fintech a plus)
- Exceptionally high attention to detail; strong finance background is a plus
- Excited to be close to the build and close to customers, not managing from a distance
- Likes working on a small team and moving fast; bias toward action
- Comfortable with the regulatory landscape around payments, banking, and cards
- Uses AI tools and figures things out independently
Compensation & Benefits
- Base salary: Competitive market rate
- Equity: Significant, meaningful ownership
- Full health coverage
- Wellness stipend (gym and office)
- Travel stipend for certain circumstances
Application
Apply with your resume and a short note on the most complex payments problem you have owned.
This is a full-commitment, full-ownership role. You will work very closely with the CEO, in our San Francisco office five to six days a week.
Benefits
- stock options
- wellness program
About this role
Wonderschool is building infrastructure for early childhood education, and this role puts you in charge of the payments system that moves billions of dollars across their platform annually. You'll own the full roadmap for a payments product that currently stitches together banking, cards, Stripe, SAP, partner advances, and payroll—a complex legacy landscape that needs consolidation into something reliable and fast. This is hands-on work: you'll spend significant time with customers understanding how money actually moves for them, partner daily with engineering on builds and iterations, and work directly with fintech partners on integrations and reconciliation.
The role demands a senior PM with genuine payments expertise and a strong finance background. You need exceptional attention to detail, comfort navigating the regulatory environment around banking and cards, and the ability to figure things out independently—including using AI tools effectively. This isn't a role for someone who prefers distance; you'll be close to both the build and the customer, working on a small dedicated team with a bias toward action.
The position is full-time, in-office in San Francisco five to six days a week, with significant equity alongside competitive base salary. You'll work closely with the CEO. Apply with your resume and a short note on the most complex payments problem you've owned.
How this employer is doing
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- Recently Raised Funding
- Recent Acquisition
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