Senior Payments Product Manager, Ticket Tailor

• Real payments product experience, evidenced by your work: product ownership of payments in a SaaS, platform, marketplace or payment servicer provider context, with a working understanding of the shape of the domain: onboarding and KYC, payouts, disputes and chargebacks, reconciliation, pricing, and fraud
• Experience owning a product or a domain end-to-end, with the vision and the decisions, not just grooming a delivery backlog someone else defined
• First-principles problem diagnosis: you question the brief, find the actual problem, and define value in terms of the person who matters
• Vision-setting: you can articulate where a domain is heading and use that to guide what gets built today
• Comfort with ambiguity: How we operate, how we take advantage of agentic workflows, and the scope of the product are all still settling, and you'll need to be effective before they're settled
• A genuine drive to work in an AI-native way: you're curious and happy to change how you work as the tools evolve, to raise both the depth and the pace of your work

Desirable

• We're launching a brand-new team to build a new payments product, and we're hiring a full-time Payments Product Manager to own the product thinking behind all of it
• Payments are growing rapidly at Ticket Tailor: we’re on track to process over $1 billion in ticket revenue this year – and it’s becoming a product in its own right rather than a set of integrations bolted onto ticketing, and this is the role that owns where it goes: the payment provider integrations we run today, the new payments product we're building, and everything event organisers experience around getting paid
• This is a domain-owning role, not a backlog-owning one. You'll set a coherent long-term vision for payments and use it to guide the decisions we make today, and you'll go deep enough on organisers' real payments problems that what we build has meaningful, lasting impact rather than surface-level polish
• Your instinct to move fast will be important, but you know that payments are low-margin-for-error territory
• You'll work in a small, empowered team: two Payments Product Engineers and a Head of Commercial Finance – with support from our Architects pairing on the early build, and our Head of Product Design scaffolding the experience
• Nobody in that team reports to you – your influence comes from clarity, and from being the person who has genuinely understood the problem. You'll report to our Product Director, and you'll have a real say in the decisions that shape the product and share in the successes with the whole company
• Own the product vision for payments – both the integrations we run today and the new payments product – and use that vision to inform the tactical calls we make now, rather than reacting request-by-request
• Get genuinely deep into organisers' payments problems: diagnose the actual problem behind the request, and define what "good" looks like for the person it's for
• Own the payment integrations we already run end-to-end, roadmap included. There’s a real, near-term impact opportunity: the connection step is currently our single biggest conversion drop-off point
• Build and maintain a clear, living payments domain model – the primitives, the language, and untangling the concepts that have been conflated – so the team can easily compose new things instead of re-deriving the basics each time (we call this “building Lego, not jigsaws”)
• Turn operational friction around money movement (disputes, payout clarity, onboarding, and everything organisers worry about when their money is involved) into product problems worth solving properly, not support queues to manage
• Design so we don't have to firefight later. Poorly-designed payments products turn into toil and risk for our support and ops teams, and avoiding that is part of the job, not an afterthought
• Judge whether what we shipped is actually working: identify meaningful customer signals and iterate off them
• Use AI fluently and creatively to go deep and rigorous, not just fast. This is core to how our team operates

• If your application is shortlisted, then you will receive detailed information about the next stages of the process
• As an outline, the process will include:
• An initial discovery call to learn more about you, your motivation and suitability for the position, and to clarify any questions you have
• An interview with a member of the Product team to explore your product experience and approach in more detail
• A take-home presentation task, giving you insight into the role while helping us assess your approach. You’ll then present your work as part of an on-site interview with the Leadership team and wider team members