Polymarket - Staff Product Manager, Payments
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Requirements
• 7+ years in payments, fintech, or financial infrastructure, ideally at a regulated exchange, neobank, or high-volume consumer fintech • Deep hands-on experience with payment rails (ACH, card, bank integrations), KYC/AML providers, and fraud tooling • You've managed real relationships with card networks or banking partners. You know who to call at Visa when there's a problem • Strong understanding of the US regulatory environment for financial products: CFTC, BSA/AML, KYC requirements • Product-minded: you read conversion funnels, run experiments, and care deeply about user experience, not just compliance checkbox-ticking • Technical enough to work closely with engineers, review APIs, and debug issues. You don't need to write Go but you should be able to read a webhook payload • Very comfortable with ambiguity and speed • Nice-to-Haves • Nice-to-Haves • Experience at a CFTC-regulated entity (DCO, DCM, FCM) • Familiarity with prediction markets • Prior work with payment, risk, and compliance software such as Socure, Plaid, Stripe, Aeropay, and Checkout.com
Responsibilities
• Payments • Own all consumer and exchange payment rails end-to-end — including cards, ACH, bank transfers, wires, and stablecoins • Obsess over uptime, conversion rates, and success rates across every funding method. You will build the dashboards, set the SLAs, and own the outcomes • Understand the exchange and clearing implications of operating within a regulated environment — you should know what a clearing house is, what a DCO and DCM are, and how funding flows interact with the system as a whole • Build and maintain relationships with banks, card networks (Visa, Mastercard), and payment processors, including proactive work on fraud reduction, chargeback management, and expense management • Work cross-functionally across product, backend, and exchange teams to ensure funding flows are seamless from the user's perspective • Work with our compliance and risk teams to optimize payments in support of our users • Auth & Identity • Auth & Identity • Own KYC end-to-end — including pass rates, rejection quality, and drop-off at every step of the funnel • Obsess and understand the what and the why behind rejections and false-positives • Monitor identity funnel metrics daily; run experiments to improve conversion without compromising compliance • Understand the regulatory requirements of operating as a CFTC-regulated exchange and translate them into identity requirements • Partner with compliance, legal, and external identity vendors to stay ahead of requirements
Benefits
• Full Health, Vision, & Dental coverage • Hardware setup — new MacBook Pro, big display, & accessories
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