Lead Technical Product Manager

Job Description

As the Lead Technical Product Manager for our Payments Platform, you will lead a talented team of engineers responsible for the development, maintenance, and scaling of our payment processing systems. You will play a crucial role in managing the team’s engineering efforts and acting as the product manager to oversee the health and strategic roadmap of the payments platform.

What you'll do:

• Lead and mentor a small team of engineers working on both TypeScript and Node.js based microservices and a PHP monolith.
• Manage the entire payment platform, ensuring high performance, reliability, and scalability.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including finance, customer service, and product to align payment platform development with company objectives.
• Develop and maintain a detailed product roadmap for the payment platform, identifying opportunities for new features and improvements.
• Engage with executives and other stakeholders to set priorities and report on the progress and health of the payment platform.
• Implement best practices in software engineering, security, and compliance to maintain a high standard in handling sensitive payment data.
• Stay updated with industry trends and advancements in payment processing technologies.

Why we're excited about you:

• Minimum of 5 years of experience in software engineering with a focus on payment systems.
• Successful track record in product management and leading technical teams.
• Strong understanding of payment processing, payment gateways, and various payment methods ( Our platform supports various payment methods including Stripe, PayPal, Apple Pay, and Google Pay) experience with TypeScript, Node.js , and PHP.
• Strong stakeholder management and prioritization skills.
• Ability to analyze data and make data informed decisions.
• Excellent problem-solving, leadership, and communication skills.
• Experience working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
• Familiarity with agile methodologies and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) practices.

Why your excited about us:

• Our team: We have a passionate, creative, and innovative team that is a lot of fun to work with.
• Our mission: We’re doing work that matters – connecting lifelong learners around the world and empowering them to pursue their creativity.
• Remote culture: A healthy, productive working environment means different things for different people. We optimize for trust and invest in supporting remote teams, offer home office stipends for those that work best in their own space and co-working spaces for those that thrive in a social office environment, and focus on transparent communication to ensure an inclusive, equitable work environment for everyone.
• Flexibility: We believe that doing your best work means living a full life. That means different things for everyone, so we optimize for trust, invest to support remote teams, offer home office stipends and co-working spaces in multiple cities, have an unlimited vacation policy (with a required minimum!), and encourage work-life balance.
• Impact: A chance to lead and shape a critical area of our business.
• Benefits: We believe that doing your best work means living a full life. We support our team with unlimited PTO, gender-neutral parental leave, anniversary bonuses and sabbaticals, and healthy stipends for creativity, learning, and personal wellness.

About Skillshare Skillshare is an online learning community whose mission is to connect curious, lifelong learners everywhere – and, in so doing, build a more creative, more generous, and more prosperous world. Today, our community has grown to millions of members who come to Skillshare to learn creative and entrepreneurial skills, network with peers, and even teach a class themselves. We are backed by OMERS Growth Equity, Union Square Ventures, Spark Capital, Amasia, Spero Ventures, and Burda Principal Investments. Skillshare is committed to building a diverse team that reflects a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. We work to ensure a consistent interview process, and inclusive work environment for all Apply for this job