Payments Product Strategy
• Define the multi-year product vision and roadmap for Billtrust’s payments platform, spanning payment acceptance, processing, network connectivity, and reconciliation.
• Develop the strategy for growing buyer-side engagement within the Billtrust Payment Network, deepening network effects that create durable competitive advantage across the supplier-buyer payment relationship.
• Leverage AI-powered market analysis tools to identify emerging payment trends, regulatory shifts, and competitive threats, translating insights into decisive product bets.
• Partner with the CPO to align the payments roadmap with Billtrust’s broader platform strategy and customer growth objectives.
• Other duties as assigned.
Product Execution & Delivery
• Lead a team of product managers across the payments portfolio, setting clear goals, cultivating AI-first working habits, and driving accountability for outcome-based delivery.
• Work closely with Engineering and Design to translate complex payments domain requirements into well-scoped, technically sound product specs.
• Establish and monitor key product health metrics — payment success rates, authorization performance, time-to-settle — using AI dashboards to surface issues before customers notice.
Customer & Market Engagement
• Engage directly with enterprise customers, payments networks, and banking partners to gather deep domain insight and validate product direction.
• Represent the payments product externally at industry events, analyst briefings, and strategic partner conversations, positioning Billtrust as the leader in B2B payments.
• Champion the voice of the customer internally, ensuring payment friction points are surfaced, prioritized, and resolved with urgency.
Cross-Functional Leadership
• Collaborate with Sales, Customer Success, and Marketing to develop compelling go-to-market strategies for new payments capabilities.
• Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Finance to navigate the regulatory landscape — PCI DSS, card network rules, ACH guidelines — and build compliant-by-design products.
• Align roadmap cadence and shared requirements with the Cash Application product team, ensuring payment data — including remittance detail and payment method signals — flows cleanly into downstream matching and reconciliation workflows.
• Partner across Billtrust’s Platform and Software product teams to ensure payments capabilities are well-integrated into the broader product platform, shared services are leveraged effectively, and roadmap dependencies are surfaced and resolved early.
• Drive AI adoption across the payments product team, with specific focus on payments-relevant applications: exception handling in cash application, authorization optimization, fraud signal detection, and remittance data enrichment.