Head of Product Management, Payments Platform

Full-time

Company Description

Square builds common business tools in unconventional ways so more people can start, run, and grow their businesses. When Square started, it was difficult and expensive (or just plain impossible) for some businesses to take credit cards. Square made credit card payments possible for all by turning a mobile phone into a credit card reader. Since then Square has been building an entire business toolkit of both hardware and software products including Square Capital, Square Terminal, Square Payroll, and more. We’re working to find new and better ways to help businesses succeed on their own terms—and we’re looking for people like you to help shape tomorrow at Square.

Job Description

We are looking for a technical and strategic Head of Product for the Square Payments Platform. The job of our payments platform is to enable great products for our sellers. By doing the heavy lifting for Square and 3rd-party developers, we allow them to focus on creating differentiated product experiences. We believe that a general purpose platform of composable building blocks will accelerate the delivery of these products.

As the Head of Product, Payments Platform, you will lead a team of product managers across 12 sprint teams from product definition to development, launch and iteration. The scope of your teams spans identity, payment acceptance, and banking servicesfrom foundational services to public APIs. The Payments Platform powers all money movement for Square products. Therefore effective collaboration with stakeholders, while developing the long term strategy and vision of the platform, is key.

In this role you will champion the voice of our sellers and developers to deliver a platform that is not just reliable, scalable, and secure, but will make Square go faster.

Responsibilities

Develop and lead the product vision and strategy for the Payments Platform
Understand the jobs to be done for the platform, synthesize those needs to shape the product roadmap for a suite of platform products, and define key metrics
Strategically assess new opportunities and develop alignment around these
Manage and develop a team of platform product managers
Collaborate and build executive alignment for your vision
Foster a community of data-informed decision making

Qualifications

Customer oriented: you are driven by our purpose of economic employment and serving our sellers and developers
Long term thinking: platform product should have a long term view of where the platform and product teams (first and third party) are headed. Ability to think strategically and craft a high level narrative is critical.
History of successfully launching and scaling platform products with public APIs and maintaining them across multiple versions
Platform product leadership: collaborate with product and engineering leadership across Square to develop the overall platform and skillset.
Team Management: ability to manage and coach a team of platform product managers.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Optimist with a manageable ego: the ability to stand up for your work when you really believe in it
Deeply curious and want to understand the why
Not satisfied with the status quo and want to raise the bar
12+ years of product management experience
Technical and analytical background
Strong track record of execution

Additional Information

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