Senior Product Manager, Payments
EngineThis Senior Product Manager role oversees a mature payments platform within a fintech-enabled travel company. You will lead strategy for payment acceptance and card issuing to power business spend management.
What you’d own
- Payment acceptance and card issuing products
- Financial infrastructure for customer transactions
- Integration of new payment methods and card programs
- AI-native experiences within the payments product
Who it’s for
A fit if you…
- ✓You have 6+ years of experience owning complex backend platform systems
- ✓You can navigate technical architecture reviews and system design tradeoffs
- ✓You have a clear point of view on using AI tools for product workflows
- ✓You are comfortable representing the payments function in executive conversations
Not for you if…
- ✗You prefer working on purely consumer-facing UI over backend infrastructure
- ✗You prefer a low-autonomy environment with highly prescriptive task lists
- ✗You are not comfortable with high-stakes, cross-functional stakeholder management
Reading between the lines
- The requirement to 'hold the room' in executive conversations implies you will need significant political navigation and influence skills.
- The emphasis on 'systems thinking' and 'long term lens' suggests a focus on scalability over quick, superficial feature wins.
- The mention of 'turning ambiguity into a crisp plan' signals that the roadmap for these payments products is not yet fully defined.
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Benefits
Full job description
About Engine Engine is the AI-native platform for intelligent travel. For a decade, Engine has built the proprietary technology and supply behind modern business travel, serving over 38,000 customers and nearly 2 million travelers, along with leading travel and AI companies that build on Engine's infrastructure. One system powers business travel, group travel, human agents, and AI agents. That work has earned recognition as one of Fast Company's Best Workplaces for Innovators (2025), TravelTech's Reservation Platform of the Year (2026), and one of Built In's Best Places to Work (2020–2026).
We're looking for bold, ambitious people to help redefine how businesses manage and experience travel. Working here, you can expect exponential growth, an ambitious pace, full ownership, and high-caliber colleagues who push you to do the best work of your career. Every hire raises the bar. Come outpace the ordinary and build the future of travel with us. Your Mission As Senior Product Manager for Payments, you'll own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for a mission-critical part of Engine's business: enabling seamless payments acceptance and issuing capabilities.
Payments sits at the intersection of fintech innovation and customer experience, and it powers acquisition, activation, retention, and monetization. You'll work across engineering, design, partnerships, and go to market to evolve and expand a mature payments platform into what Engine needs next. Lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution for a suite of payments and fintech products, including payment acceptance, card issuing, and the financial infrastructure that underpins everything customers transact on Engine.
Expand Engine's payments capabilities by integrating new payment methods, card programs, and financial partners, balancing long term platform bets against near term customer and revenue wins. Partner closely with Business Development and other Product leaders to shape and land partnerships that materially expand what Engine's payments ecosystem can do. Work with cross functional design, engineering, marketing, CX, and sales partners to bring initiatives to life from initial ideation through post launch, and set the bar for how the work gets shipped.
Raise the AI bar across Payments. Use AI in how you work day to day, and build AI-native experiences into the product where they meaningfully change how customers pay, get paid, and manage spend. Hold the room. Represent Payments in exec conversations, cross functional forums, and customer deep dives, and make sure people understand what Payments is building and why. What You'll Bring to Engine We're looking for someone ready to make a real impact on a foundational part of Engine: Experience: 6+ years in product management, with meaningful time spent on technical or platform products.
You've owned complex backend systems end to end and shipped products that other teams and customers depend on. Bonus Points: Direct experience in payments, credit cards, or fintech, with hands-on exposure to payment acceptance, card issuing, or related systems like authorization, settlement, and reconciliation. Technical Depth: Comfort going deep with engineering on architecture, tradeoffs, and system design. You can hold your own in a technical review and turn ambiguity into a crisp plan.
Systems Thinking: You can build cross functional systems from zero and scale them with a long term lens. You zoom out to strategy and zoom in to execution with equal comfort. Customer Obsession: Even on a platform, you keep the end customer in view. You know that infrastructure decisions eventually show up in the customer experience, and you design for that. AI Fluency: You use AI tools daily and have a clear point of view on where they change the game for product teams and for payments.
You've shipped AI-powered features or workflows, know the difference between real value and hype, and you push the teams around you to adopt AI in both how they work and what they build. Mindset: You're a builder at heart, hands on, collaborative, and excited to help scale one of Engine's most important platforms. Applications for this role will be accepted through 11/5/26 or until the role is filled. We encourage you to apply early, as we may begin reviewing applications before the deadline.
Compensation Our compensation packages are based on several factors, including your experience, expertise, and location. In addition to a competitive base salary, all roles receive equity. Depending on the role, total compensation may also include an annual bonus. Your recruiter will share your complete compensation package as you move through the process. Base Pay Range $153,935 — $213,000 USD The Engine Edge: Perks Compensation We believe in rewarding great work with great benefits: Compensation: Competitive base pay tied to role and experience, with equity for all employees.
Some roles are also eligible for bonuses or commissions. Benefits: Check out our full list at engine.com/culture Environments for Success: Different roles have different needs in terms of the environments that drive success which is why we have a hybrid-hub model. Whether you are in one of our amazing offices or fully remote, we'll make sure you have what you need to succeed. Perks and benefits may vary based on employment type, location, and more
About Engine
See all roles →Engine is a travel management platform built for small and mid-market businesses, simplifying how companies book and manage flights, hotels, and car rentals for employees. It combines a self-serve booking interface with policy controls, centralized billing, and reporting — replacing the fragmented experience of employees booking on personal cards and submitting expense reports. The company targets businesses that have outgrown consumer travel sites but don't need the complexity of enterprise solutions like Concur. Engine is venture-backed and competes in the SMB travel management space with a product designed for speed and simplicity.
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