Payments Product ManagerLocation: San Francisco (in-office, Letterman / Presidio)
Team: Product • Payments
About WanderWander is building the future of travel: a vertically integrated platform of incredible vacation homes backed by hotel-grade hospitality and technology. Every stay runs on Wander's own booking and payments infrastructure, where a single transaction can move tens of thousands of dollars. Payments aren't a feature for us, they're core to the trust guests and owners place in the brand.
The RoleWe're hiring a Payments Product Manager to own the money movement experience end to end, from a guest clicking "book" to owners getting paid. You'll partner closely with engineering, finance, and design to make high-value transactions feel instant and trustworthy, while keeping the underlying ledger accurate and reconcilable. This is a high-ownership role for someone who has built or scaled payments at a fintech or payments-led company and wants to bring that rigor to travel.
What You'll Own- The end-to-end booking payment flow: authorization, capture, installment plans (e.g., half-now/half-later), and confirmation, optimizing for immediate, reliable feedback on large transactions.
- Refunds, credits, points, and cancellations: the full lifecycle of getting money back to guests correctly and predictably.
- Invoicing, platform fees, transaction fees, and payout logic for property owners and partners.
- Reconciliation and financial integrity: ensuring the payments ledger ties out against Stripe and the data warehouse, partnering with finance and data.
- The payments roadmap: prioritizing across new payment methods, fraud and risk, authorization rates, and cost optimization.
What We're Looking For- 4+ years of product management, with significant time spent on payments, billing, or financial infrastructure.
- Deep familiarity with payment processors (Stripe and similar), payment intents, capture flows, disputes, and settlement.
- Strong grasp of the tradeoffs in financial systems: synchronous vs. asynchronous flows, idempotency, ordering, and reconciliation. You understand why money movement is held to a higher bar than typical product work.
- Comfort working directly with engineers on service design and with finance on ledgers and revenue accuracy.
- Data fluency, able to query and reason about transaction-level data to find and resolve discrepancies.
- A bias toward shipping and an obsession with correctness; in payments, "mostly right" isn't right.
Nice to Have- Experience at a payments-led company (e.g., Stripe, Adyen, Brex, Block, Ramp, Modern Treasury, Column).
- Marketplace or two-sided payments experience (paying out third-party owners/hosts).
- Exposure to fraud, risk, or chargeback management.
Why Wander- Own payments at a company where it's mission-critical, not a side system.
- Small, senior team with real scope and fast decisions.
- Beautiful SF office in the Presidio (Letterman), in-person and high-collaboration.
