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We work in-person five days a week in our San Francisco, NYC, or London offices.\nAbout the Role\nAs Senior Product Manager, Payments, you'll own how Mercor moves over $4 million a day to hundreds of thousands of experts in nearly every country on earth. Getting people paid accurately, quickly, and in the way they expect is the single most important promise we make to our workforce.\nYou'll own the payments platform end-to-end with significant autonomy, working directly with engineering, finance, and leadership to turn ambiguous problems into shipped products. You'll balance long-term platform strategy with rapid execution, making decisions that directly shape expert trust, operational cost, and the company's bottom line.\nWhat You'll Do\nOwn the payout experience: Take full ownership of how experts get paid - from contract terms and time capture through disbursement, retries, and support resolution.\n\nBuild the ledger and money movement platform: Partner with engineering on the ledger, reconciliation, and payout automation that keep every dollar correct, traceable, and auditable at scale.\n\nExpand global coverage: Grow the payout rails, methods, and currencies available to experts, weighing cost, speed, reliability, and local regulation market by market.\n\nUnderstand the business: Work backwards from payout cost, failure rates, support volume, and expert retention to decide what gets built.\n\nGet in the weeds: Write specs and PRDs, but also build the dashboards, dig through failed payouts, and make small PRs to unblock yourself.\n\nCollaborate: Partner closely with engineering, finance, compliance, operations, and support to ship quickly without breaking trust.\n\nWhat You'll Own\nPayouts and disbursement: Global money movement to experts across rails, methods, and currencies.\n\nLedger and reconciliation: The canonical record of what is owed, paid, and settled.\n\nContracts, rates, and earnings: How work converts into money owed, and how experts see it.\n\nPayments operations: The tooling that lets a small team run payouts at enormous scale.\n\nWhat We're Looking For\nExperience: 6+ years in product management, with meaningful time on payouts or disbursements specifically - not only payments acceptance or checkout. 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