Job Summary:
Lightspark is building the open payment protocol for the Internet making money move like data. As the Staff Product Manager for Payments Orchestration & Intelligence, you will own the strategy for the AI Routing and Grid Switch, optimizing how money is routed across global financial networks to maximize success and minimize cost.
Responsibilities:
• Lead Payment Orchestration: Define the roadmap for our AI Router and Grid Switch, building the intelligent pathfinding logic that optimizes for transaction success rates (TSR), latency, and cost.
• Scale Global Connectivity: Drive the expansion into domestic payment rails (e.g., SPEI, UPI, SEPA) and manage the technical and regulatory complexities of global interoperability.
• Own the "Closed Loop": Design the strategy for internal and customer-facing observability dashboards and automated reconciliation workflows to ensure institutional-grade financial integrity.
• Drive Vertical Innovation: Lead high-value customer engagements from initial scoping to deployment, owning the end-to-end delivery of feature sets like P2P/B2B payments and regional pay-in solutions.
• Negotiate Network Resilience: Partner with Business Development to engage with financial partners, negotiating limits and unlocking new feature expansions to ensure a robust, high-performance network.
• Future-Proof the Stack: Collaborate with Engineering to influence long-term architecture that supports emerging use cases, including Agentic Commerce and LLM-driven transaction flows.
• Maximize Impact with AI: Leverage AI and automation to accelerate product development lifecycles and enhance the efficiency of our ledger and routing capabilities.
Qualifications:
Required:
• 7+ years of experience in global payment infrastructure.
• Under-the-hood knowledge of funds flows and understanding of how domestic rails settle.
• Comfortable collaborating with engineers on backend system architecture.
• Ability to navigate complex partner negotiations with Business Development.
• Proven track record of bringing clarity to ambiguous environments.
• Experience building scalable B2B solutions from scratch.
• Effectively use AI tools to amplify impact.
• Genuine curiosity for how rapidly changing technologies can be integrated into payment systems.
• Thrive in fast-paced startup environments.
• Ready to roll up sleeves to solve detailed money movement challenges at scale.
• Obsess over edge cases, failure scenarios, and performance benchmarks (SLAs).
Preferred:
• Familiarity with digital assets, the Lightning Network, or programmable money.
Company:
Builds payments infrastructure for digital banks, wallets and exchanges, real-time global money movement for Bitcoin, fiat, and stablecoins. Founded in 2022, the company is headquartered in Los Angeles, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage.