About the Role As a Product Owner at ValPay, you will play a key role in defining, prioritizing, and delivering high-impact product initiatives across our payments ecosystem. You'll work at the intersection of product, engineering, and business teams to ensure we are building scalable, reliable, and user-centric solutions.
This is a highly collaborative role where you'll translate business needs into clear product requirements, drive execution, and ensure alignment across stakeholders.
What You'll Do Product Ownership & Strategy
- Own and manage the product backlog, ensuring clear prioritization aligned with business goals
- Define and communicate product vision, roadmap, and feature requirements
- Translate complex business needs into actionable user stories and acceptance criteria
Execution & Delivery
- Partner closely with engineering teams to deliver high-quality product releases
- Participate in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives
- Ensure timely delivery while maintaining a strong focus on quality and user experience
Stakeholder Collaboration
- Work cross-functionally with product, engineering, operations, and leadership teams
- Gather and synthesize feedback from internal and external stakeholders
- Act as the voice of the customer throughout the product lifecycle
Payments & Platform Growth
- Contribute to the evolution of ValPay's embedded payments platform
- Support integrations with third-party systems, APIs, and SaaS products
- Ensure alignment with security, compliance (e.g., PCI), and performance standards
Continuous Improvement & Innovation
- Identify opportunities to improve product functionality, usability, and scalability
- Leverage data and insights to inform product decisions
- Stay current with industry trends in payments, fintech, and SaaS
What You Bring - 3-6+ years of experience as a Product Owner, Product Manager, or similar role
- Experience working in agile development environments
- Strong ability to translate business needs into technical requirements
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Experience working closely with engineering teams on software products
- Analytical mindset with a data-driven approach to decision-making
Nice-to-Have - Experience in payments, fintech, or embedded finance
- Familiarity with APIs, integrations, and technical product environments
- Understanding of compliance and security requirements (e.g., PCI)
- Experience working in high-growth or SaaS environments
