Lightspark

Staff Product Manager, Payments Orchestration & Intelligence

Los Angeles HQ · Staff+

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 106 days ago

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About the role

Lightspark is creating the Money Grid, modern, open financial infrastructure that makes payments accessible, affordable, and instant for businesses and users worldwide.
As the Staff Product Manager for Payments Orchestration & Intelligence, you will be the architect of Lightspark's core transaction engine.
We do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

Responsibilities

Lead Payment Orchestration: Define the roadmap for our AI Router and Grid Switch, building the intelligent pathfinding logic that optimizes for transaction success rates (TSR), latency, and cost.
Scale Global Connectivity: Drive the expansion into domestic payment rails (e.g., SPEI, UPI, SEPA) and manage the technical and regulatory complexities of global interoperability.
Own the "Closed Loop": Design the strategy for internal and customer-facing observability dashboards and automated reconciliation workflows to ensure institutional-grade financial integrity.
Drive Vertical Innovation: Lead high-value customer engagements from initial scoping to deployment, owning the end-to-end delivery of feature sets like P2P/B2B payments and regional pay-in solutions.
Negotiate Network Resilience: Partner with Business Development to engage with financial partners, negotiating limits and unlocking new feature expansions to ensure a robust, high-performance network.
Future-Proof the Stack: Collaborate with Engineering to influence long-term architecture that supports emerging use cases, including Agentic Commerce and LLM-driven transaction flows.
We're challenging the status quo, updating the current system, and empowering our partners to build better solutions.
Together, we're building the most advanced financial infrastructure, open, instant, and global, inspiring a future where anyone, anywhere can access the full potential of digital money.
You will own the strategy for our AI Routing and Grid Switch, determining how money is routed across disparate global financial networks and domestic real-time rails (RTP) to maximize success and minimize cost.
you will drive the horizontal platform layer that scales our infrastructure while simultaneously leading vertical, end-to-end customer engagements that bring new payment capabilities to market.

Requirements

7+ years of experience in global payment infrastructure.
You have "under-the-hood" knowledge of funds flows and understand exactly how domestic rails settle.
Deep Payment Expertise: 7+ years of experience in global payment infrastructure.

Nice to have

Familiarity with digital assets, the Lightning Network, or programmable money.
We will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the State of California Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring.
Preferred: Familiarity with digital assets, the Lightning Network, or programmable money.

Company info

Lightspark is on a mission to build the future of open, instant, and global financial infrastructure making payments accessible and affordable for everyone, everywhere.
We're committed to creating a more inclusive and diverse workplace to reflect the customers we serve.
We welcome interest from individuals of all backgrounds and levels of experience who share our mission.
We are looking for a high-leverage builder who thrives in a fast-paced "0 to 1" environment and is eager to define the future of agentic commerce.

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