Nium

Nium

Vice President - Product

San Francisco · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$244k-$305kDetected 22 days ago
RailsProduct ManagementProduct StrategyCustomer SuccessResearchLeadershipCommunication

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odds of building a lasting career here

59Sponsors, lottery-bound
Cap-exempt (no lottery)0
Sponsors this role80
Entry-level history0
PERM / green-card track0
Lottery odds (Level IV)94
Fits your clock70

Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.

Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.

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H-1B wage level

the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry

Level II · 2×
Level I$167,5651 entry
Level II$208,1042 entries
Level III$248,6433 entries
Level IV$289,1824 entries

$4,643 more — $248,643 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.

Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $248,643 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Computer and Information Systems Managers" for prevailing-wage purposes.

DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Computer and Information Systems Managers (11-3021) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.

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About the role

  • You will operate as a mini-GM and true product owner for your portfolio - accountable not only for vision and delivery, but also for market fit, go-to-market readiness, adoption, revenue, margin, and long-term performance.
  • This is not a purely strategic leadership role.
  • The successful candidate will move comfortably between long-term product vision, customer and market research, commercial decisions, technical architecture, go-to-market execution, and detailed product trade-offs.

Responsibilities

  • Own the commercial success of the portfolio by shaping business cases, pricing, packaging, monetization, and investment decisions, and by managing performance against revenue, payment volume, margin, adoption, retention, and return-on-investment goals.
  • Partner deeply with Sales, Marketing, Solutions, and Customer Success to define target segments, sharpen value propositions, build go-to-market plans, enable commercial teams, support strategic deals, and accelerate adoption.
  • Build a disciplined customer-insight engine through direct customer engagement, win/loss analysis, qualitative and quantitative research, and continuous validation of customer problems and product-market fit.
  • Maintain a strong view of the competitive landscape, emerging technologies, customer expectations, and market structure
  • translate those insights into product differentiation, build/partner/buy decisions, and strategic advantage.
  • Lead, develop, and scale a high-performing product organization, establishing strong standards for discovery, prioritization, execution, accountability, and commercial thinking.
  • Drive the evolution of Nium's global money-movement capabilities, including cross-border payments, real-time payment rails, collections, FX, accounts/wallets, and settlement infrastructure.
  • Lead the strategy for Nium's card-issuance platform, including virtual and physical cards, issuer processing, card lifecycle management, authorization, controls, tokenization, and Visa/Mastercard network capabilities.
  • Champion an API-first platform strategy and partner with Engineering and Architecture to deliver scalable, resilient infrastructure across authorization, clearing, settlement, ledgering, reconciliation, APIs, webhooks, and developer tooling.
  • Maintain a strong view of the competitive landscape, emerging technologies, customer expectations, and market structure; translate those insights into product differentiation, build/partner/buy decisions, and strategic advantage.

Requirements

  • Significant product leadership experience in fintech, payments, banking infrastructure, card networks, or financial technology, including experience leading senior product teams.
  • Meaningful knowledge of stablecoins, blockchain-based payments, or digital-asset infrastructure, with the judgment to distinguish practical enterprise use cases from emerging technology trends.
  • Proven commercial ownership, with the ability to connect product decisions to pricing, revenue, payment volume, margin, adoption, retention, unit economics, and strategic differentiation.
  • Experience partnering with Sales and Marketing to define market segments, value propositions, launch strategies, commercial enablement, and growth plans.
  • Strong AI fluency, with demonstrated ability to apply AI tools effectively and responsibly across research, discovery, analysis, prototyping, communication, and product execution.
  • Strong executive presence and the ability to communicate complex technical, financial, customer, and competitive concepts clearly and influence across functions.

Nice to have

  • Experience at a high-growth fintech or payments startup, particularly through a period of significant scale.
  • Direct experience launching stablecoin-powered payments, settlement, treasury, or card products.
  • Experience with both traditional payment infrastructure and blockchain-based rails.
  • Experience owning a significant payments, cards, or fintech product P&L.
  • Experience scaling a product organization while preserving individual accountability, customer proximity, and speed of execution.
  • What Success Looks Like
  • We Constantly Innovate: Since our inception, Nium has received constant recognition and awards for how we approach both our business and talent opportunities.
  • Check out CNBC World's Top Fintech Companies 2024.

Compensation

  • This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

Benefits

  • https://www.nium.com/careers#careers-perks For more information, visit www.nium.com.
  • Nium expressly prohibits any form of workplace harassment based on race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Company info

  • We offer medical coverage along with 24/7 employee assistance program, generous vacation programs including our year-end shut down.
  • We Upskill Ourselves: We are curious, and always want to learn more with a focus on upskilling ourselves.
  • As an equal opportunity employer, we are committed to providing a safe and welcoming environment for everyone.
  • Reporting directly to the CEO, this highly visible leader will translate company strategy into differentiated products that create measurable value for customers and the business.
  • Nium, Global Leader in Payments Nium, the global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, was founded on the mission to deliver the global payments infrastructure of tomorrow, today.

Equal opportunity

  • Nium provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Lead the strategy for Nium's card-issuance platform, including virtual and physical cards, issuer processing, card lifecycle management, authorization, controls, tokenization, and Visa/Mastercard network capabilities.
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