Product Manager leading the payments strategy across Instacart’s marketplace, optimizing processing costs and authorization rates. Collaborating with engineering and external partners to enhance payment capabilities.
Responsibilities
Own the global payments roadmap and strategy across authorization, routing, retries, tokenization, chargebacks/disputes, and refunds/partial captures, with clear KPIs for conversion, cost, latency, and reliability.
Design and scale a multi-PSP platform, including smart routing, failover, experimentation frameworks, and performance monitoring to continuously improve auth rates and reduce processing costs.
Expand payment methods in the US and internationally, including wallets, local payment methods, EBT SNAP, HSA/FSA, and other emerging options, ensuring compliance with regional and network requirements.
Partner closely with engineering (working with approximately 10–20 engineers) to define PRDs, scope systems, manage delivery timelines, and uphold high standards for availability, security, and PCI compliance.
Collaborate across Platform, Fraud, Order Management, Loyalty, Pricing/Discounting, Shopper (for payouts), and Instacart+ (for subscriptions) to support nuanced flows like post-order changes, substitutions, partial captures, and disbursements.
Manage external relationships with PSPs and card networks—driving performance reviews, negotiating favorable terms, running vendor evaluations, and ensuring SLAs and compliance are consistently met.
Requirements
6+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years focused on payments, ecommerce, or financial platform products.
Proven track record optimizing payment stacks at scale, including improving authorization rates, reducing processing costs, and integrating or scaling multi-PSP platforms.
Hands-on experience delivering core payments capabilities such as routing and retries, tokenization/vaulting, 3DS/payer authentication, chargebacks/disputes, and refunds/partial captures.
Proficiency with data and experimentation (e.g., SQL and analytics tools) to define KPIs, diagnose issues, and drive A/B tests or holdouts that inform product decisions.
Demonstrated success working cross-functionally with engineering, operations, finance, legal, and compliance, as well as externally with PSPs and card networks.
Working knowledge of PCI DSS, card network rules, and regional payments regulations and privacy standards.
Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, computer science, or a related field; equivalent practical experience considered.
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