Paddle
digital product companies
StaffProductManager
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“Staff Product Manager at Paddle. Skills: Checkout product ownership, strategy and roadmap development, product development and delivery, data analysis and commercial impact, stakeholder management and storytelling, GTM and customer proximity. Own the long-term vision and strategy for Checkout. Translate strategy into a roadmap”
What You'll Achieve.
move the needle on conversion, revenue, and customer trust; commercial outcomes; compounding conversion and UX gains; revenue impact; NPS
Industry & Context.
navigate ambiguous, multi-stakeholder trade-offs; reason about systems, APIs, and trade-offs; problem-solving
regular in-person collaboration, not a fit for fully remote working
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
owning a high-stakes, high-complexity product end-to-end with clear, measurable business impact, specific, hands-on experience with payments, checkout, or comparable consumer-facing fintech experiences at scale, understanding auth rates, 3DS, SCA, PSP economics, fraud trade-offs, worked on high-volume, consumer-facing products where small UX or technical changes have outsized commercial impact, technically credible – comfortable in the details with engineers, able to reason about systems, APIs, and trade-offs, data-fluent and metrics-led, use AI as a daily force multiplier – for research, writing, analysis, and building functional prototypes, built and shipped in scale-up or startup environments, including zero-to-one work, outstanding written and verbal communicator, comfortable managing hard trade-offs across customers, Sales, Engineering, Compliance, and Exco, value regular, in-person collaboration with your team and wider stakeholders
Nice to Have
senior PM who is unambiguously operating beyond your title, at home with ambiguity, not blocked by it
What You'll Do.
Own the long-term vision and strategy for Checkout
Translate strategy into a roadmap
Make tough prioritization calls
multi-stakeholder trade-offs
Set the bar for discovery and prioritisation
Coach other PMs on discovery and prioritisation
Lead end-to-end delivery of complex
multi-faceted initiatives
Define and enforce delivery standards
Work in a tight trio with engineering and design to ship fast
Use AI tooling to compress the loop from idea to spec to prototype
Run a continuous programme of optimisation
Own the KPIs that matter for Checkout
Weave KPIs into the strategic narrative
Dive into data independently
Form hypotheses and bring recommendations
Use product data to influence business strategy
Align senior stakeholders around the Checkout strategy
Craft compelling written narratives
Be a credible technical partner to engineering
Oversee GTM for Checkout launches
Shape the customer-centric culture of the team
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work in a trio with engineering lead and experienced product designer; Daily exposure to Sales, Solutions, Customer Success, Risk, Finance, and Exco; Regular in-person collaboration with the Checkout team and the wider Payments group; Work alongside engineers and designers; Collaborative culture
Communication Scope
senior product voice; storytelling; written narratives; verbal communication; tailor the message, never the substance
Process & Methodology
roadmap development, prioritization, delivery standards enforcement, GTM oversight
Full Job Description
What do we do? Paddle offers digital product companies a completely different approach to their payment infrastructure. Instead of assembling and maintaining a complex stack of payments-related apps and services, we’re a Merchant of Record for our customers. That means we take away 100% of the pain of payment fragmentation. It’s faster, safer, cheaper, and, above all, way better. We’re backed by investors including KKR, FTV Capital, Kindred, Notion, and 83North and serve over 6000 software sellers in 245 territories globally. The Role: We are looking for an exceptional Staff Product Manager to lead our flagship Checkout experience – the most strategically critical, highest-visibility product surface at Paddle. Every dollar our customers earn flows through Checkout, and the decisions made here directly move the needle on conversion, revenue, and customer trust. This is the toughest product role at Paddle, and we're looking for someone who is energised by that. You will own the Checkout product end-to-end: its strategy, its roadmap, its performance, and its commercial outcomes. You'll operate as the senior product voice in the room with our executive team, engineering leaders, and largest customers, and you'll be expected to set the bar – not just for what we ship, but for how the wider product org makes decisions, runs discovery, and uses data. You'll work in a trio with a strong engineering lead and an experienced product designer, with daily exposure to Sales, Solutions, Customer Success, Risk, Finance, and Exco. Given the cross-functional intensity of the work, this role requires regular in-person collaboration with the Checkout team and the wider Payments group. This is an opportunity for a staff-level operator who wants to own a product that genuinely matters – one with hard technical problems, real commercial stakes, and the platform to influence company strategy. What you'll do: Strategy & Roadmap Ownership: - Own the long-term vision and strategy for Che
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