Product Manager - Payment Solutions Lead

Why Verifone For more than 30 years Verifone has established a remarkable record of leadership in the electronic payment technology industry. Verifone has one of the leading electronic payment solutions brands and is one of the largest providers of electronic payment systems worldwide. Verifone has a diverse, dynamic and fast paced work environment in which employees are focused on results and have opportunities to excel. We take pride in the fact that we work with leading retailers, merchants, banks, and third party partners to invent and deliver innovative payments solution around the world. We strive for excellence in our products and services, and are obsessed with customer happiness. Across the globe, Verifone employees are leading the payments industry through experience, innovation, and an ambitious spirit. Whether it’s developing the next platform of secure payment systems or searching for new ways to bring electronic payments to new markets, the team at Verifone is dedicated to the success of our customers, partners and investors. It is this passion for innovation that drives each one of our employees for personal and professional success. Verifone is proudly an in-office work culture as we see immense benefits to career development and business results from our colleagues being physically co-located. Currently, we do allow a hybrid work schedule but we regularly revisit our attendance policy. What's Exciting About the Role The Product Management, Payment Applications Solutions Lead owns Verifone's semi-integrated and fully integrated payment application portfolio for the North America region serving ISVs, partners, enterprise retail, QSR, and financial institution customers.   This is an individual contributor role carrying the scope of a functional owner. It combines product management (strategy, roadmap, prioritization), product ownership (requirements definition, backlog, sprint-level partnership), technical program management (milestone definition, dependency management, and hands-on driving of technical implementation), and product commercialization (certification and listing paths, part number and boarding setup, launch readiness).    The successful candidate brings ability to influence without authority, drive deep cross functional relationships and drive a cohesive North America solutions delivery plan in partnership with engineering. They also have firsthand expertise in card-present payment environments, deep familiarity with payment terminal hardware and the certification ecosystem, and the organizational instincts to drive cross-functional execution.    Responsibilities Portfolio Ownership & Quarterly Prioritization   Own the North America semi-integrated and fully integrated payment application portfolio and planning — SCA, AGPA, and XPI — across the ISV/VAR, enterprise retail, QSR, and financial institution verticals   Organize and triage all demand intake into the portfolio, from customer commitments, commercial teams, executive sponsors, certification bodies, and internal stakeholders.   Build and publish prioritized roadmaps each fiscal quarter, including quarterly backlog grooming across product areas, and sequence work against business impact, capacity, and dependency reality. Establish running 12 month roadmaps.    Identify and escalate conflicts between competing commitments early, and maintain a defensible, evidence-based position    Maintain the operational plan and reporting apparatus for payment applications, including monthly roadmap status reporting to senior leadership.   Partner with the L3 certification team to drive certification-impacting initiatives, and incorporate certification requirements, sequencing, and lead times into overall initiative planning.   Product Definition & Requirements   Write and own PRDs for material initiatives, translating market, customer, and executive intent into actionable engineering requirements.   Support business analysts throughout the BRD process for net-new customer projects, resolving product, functional, and technical questions authoritatively.   Identify where bespoke, SOW-driven customer requirements can be built as reusable platform capability applicable to future customers, and shape scope accordingly rather than delivering one-off solutions.   Drive deeper requirements gathering where definition gaps would otherwise be resolved reactively during development.   Serve as product owner for the payment application backlog, including grooming, acceptance criteria, and sprint-level partnership with scrum teams.   Technical Program Management & Delivery Execution   Partner with engineering to define scope, requirements, milestones, and delivery sequencing for large multi-quarter initiatives across four scrum teams and 25+ engineers.   Drive technical implementation actively — not solely schedule and status, but architectural and integration decisions, trade-off analysis, and unblocking of technical dependencies.   Track cross-team dependencies and surface risk with sufficient lead time for the organization to act on it.   Commercial, Finance & Forecast Interlock   Work with commercial teams to understand pipeline and revenue forecasts, and ensure forecasted opportunities are reflected in quarterly roadmap planning.   Provide the product-side reality check that connects commercial ambition to delivery capacity before commitments are made externally.   Elevate operational rigor in the interlock between Finance, Sales forecasting, executive priorities, and the known engineering backlog.   Strategic Partnerships & Cross-Portfolio Product Partnership   Own the product-side relationship with strategic partners — processors, acquirers, gateways, and platform partners such as Worldpay, Fiserv, and Instamed — shaping joint solution scope, certification approach, and delivery sequencing.   Represent partnership-driven requirements w