Director of Product Management, Payments

Remote · USD 220,000-270,000 · 5+ years experience · Remote · Posted Oct 2, 2026

At a glance

Guild is hiring a Director of Product, Payments, to lead the team building how money moves across Guild.
You will own the strategy for Guild's payment network and lead a team of product managers expanding offerings to flexible payment modalities.
This is a leadership role focused on defining payment network strategy, leading a team, and building products that impact millions of learners in the US.

Own the multi-year strategy for Guild's payment network across virtual cards, reimbursement, and other transaction modalities.
Lead, coach, and grow a team of product managers across payment modalities and platform capabilities.
Guide the team from concept through vendor selection, pilot, and scale while shipping quickly and iterating.
Set expectations for AI-native product development and identify where AI materially improves the product.
Facilitate Guild's relationships with processors, card networks, and money movement partners, assisting commercial negotiations.
Partner with stakeholders on pricing, packaging, business cases, and monetization strategy.
Represent payments strategy in executive conversations and align Engineering, Finance, Legal, Commercial, and Operations.
Partner with Legal, Compliance, and Finance to set governance frameworks for card issuing and money movement.
Set and drive the strategy for Guild's funding service, improving speed, reliability, working capital efficiency, and cost per transaction.
Build capability sets with a global-first approach, serving as a subject matter expert on globalization and currency handling.

10+ years of product management experience, including significant time building payments products at a fintech, payments company, or in an embedded payments role.
5+ years managing product managers, with a track record of developing PMs and raising the quality bar.
Fluency in the mechanics of card issuing and money movement, and the vendor ecosystem behind them.
Demonstrated success setting and executing a multi-year payments strategy and taking products from zero to launch.
Experience facilitating third-party vendor and network partnerships end to end from sourcing to negotiating.
Comfort building and defending financial models, working as a peer with Finance on unit economics and pricing.
Ability to go deep with engineers on API design, integration architecture, and build-vs-buy trade-offs.
Experience using AI tools daily with a point of view on where they change how product teams operate.
Leadership presence to present strategy to executives, dig into transaction-level data, and sit with customers.

Access to low-cost, high-quality health care options through Collective Health and Kaiser
Access to a 401k plan
Vacation policy
8 days of fully-paid sick leave
12 weeks of parental leave for non-birthing parents and 18-20 weeks for birthing parents
2-week ramp-up period for returns from a leave of 6 weeks or more
Employer-paid short-term and long-term disability
Employer-sponsored life insurance
Fertility and caregiving benefits
Education benefits and tuition assistance

Home and headquarters are in Denver, but roles may allow for remote work across 32 states and Washington D.C.
Eligible remote states include AZ, CA, CO, CT, FL, GA, ID, IL, IN, KS, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, MO, NC, NH, NJ, NV, NY, OH, OK, OR, PA, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WA, WI, and Washington D.C.