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Senior Product Manager - Strategic Payment Solutions Category: Business Consulting, Strategy and Digital Transformation
Main location: United States, Virginia, Fairfax
Position ID:J0426-0790
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description: As a Senior Product Manager - Strategic Payment Solutions, you will provide strategic leadership in shaping, evolving, and delivering innovative, client-centric payment capabilities within CGI's All Payments Solution. This role combines product vision, market insight, and hands-on execution to advance the platform's capabilities, accelerate client adoption, and support the transformation of the global payments ecosystem.
You will own and drive product strategy, roadmap development, and market positioning across payment processing, orchestration, real-time payments, high-value payments, ACH, and API-led integration. Collaborating with global delivery teams, financial institutions, technology partners, and industry stakeholders, you will translate emerging market opportunities and complex client requirements into scalable solutions that strengthen CGI's competitive position in the payments industry.
Location Preference: This position is U.S.-based, with a strong preference for candidates located in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) to support effective collaboration with clients, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.
Your future duties and responsibilities:• Define and execute a forward-looking product vision and strategy aligned with industry developments, including ISO 20022, artificial intelligence, cloud modernization, and evolving payment technologies
• Own and continuously refine the product roadmap across payment processing, orchestration, real-time payments, high-value payments, ACH, and integration capabilities
• Anticipate emerging market opportunities across open banking, embedded finance, cross-border payments, and digital payment innovation to strengthen product differentiation
• Serve as a strategic product advisor and thought leader in client engagements, industry forums, and payment working groups
• Build and maintain executive-level client relationships, aligning product capabilities with enterprise payment modernization and transformation initiatives
• Partner with solution architects, engineering teams, and delivery leaders to guide payment architecture, integration strategies, and implementation approaches
• Translate complex business, regulatory, and technical requirements into scalable, reusable, and commercially viable product capabilities
• Drive continuous product innovation and improvement through competitive intelligence, market research, client feedback, and product performance insights
• Define and advance API-led product strategies that enable interoperability, seamless payment processing, and integration across financial ecosystems
• Collaborate with global stakeholders to support product adoption, go-to-market initiatives, and long-term platform growth
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:• 15+ years of experience in financial services, including extensive knowledge of payment infrastructure across retail, wholesale, high-value, and cross-border payment environments
• 7-10 years of experience in product management, product strategy, solution leadership, or advisory roles focused on payment technologies and financial services
• Deep understanding of payment ecosystems, including payment schemes, clearing and settlement processes, messaging standards, and applicable regulatory frameworks
• Proven success defining and executing product vision, strategic roadmaps, and go-to-market initiatives within complex enterprise technology environments
• Demonstrated experience engaging financial institutions, fintech organizations, technology partners, and industry stakeholders to shape and deliver innovative payment solutions
• Strong knowledge of modern payment architectures, payment orchestration, real-time processing, and API-driven integration models
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to convey complex technical and business concepts to executive and technical audiences
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives, influence strategic decisions, and drive alignment across geographically distributed teams without direct reporting authority
• Strong analytical and strategic thinking skills, with the ability to translate market trends, competitive insights, client requirements, and product performance data into actionable priorities
Desired qualifications / Strongly Preferred
• Experience with global payment schemes and networks, including SEPA, Faster Payments, SWIFT, and domestic or international real-time payment systems
• Familiarity with open banking standards, API governance frameworks, and emerging financial services interoperability models
• Exposure to fintech partnerships, embedded finance, payment innovation ecosystems, and next-generation payment technologies
• Experience participating in payment industry working groups, standards organizations, or thought leadership initiatives
Other Information:
CGI is required by law in some jurisdictions to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. The determination of this range includes various factors not limited to skill set, level, experience, relevant training, and licensure and certifications. To support the ability to reward for merit-based performance, CGI typically does not hire individuals at or near the top of the range for their role. Compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range for this role in the U.S. is $143,500.00 - $301,300.00.
CGI's benefits are offered to eligible professionals on their first day of employment to include:
. Competitive compensation
. Comprehensive insurance options
. Matching contributions through the 401(k) plan and the share purchase plan
. Paid time off for vacation, holidays, and sick time
. Paid parental leave
.Learning opportunities and tuition assistance
. Wellness and Well-being programs
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Skills: - All Payments
- Product Management
