Hiring: VP of Product Company: Paystand Location: Santa Cruz, CA Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 11:06:02 Employment Type: Remote Target Skills & Keywords : Blockchain, DeFi, Embedded Systems, Product Management, Product Strategy, Rails, SaaS About the job Experience: •10+ years of progressive leadership across Product, Engineering, technical strategy, or adjacent business functions, including significant experience leading complex B2B Fintech, payments, SaaS, or financial-platform products. Required Skills: •Convert company objectives, customer needs, market intelligence, and technical realities into a clear multi-year product strategy and sequenced roadmap. •Partner deeply with Engineering and Architecture on platform design, APIs, data, integrations, scalability, security, and build-versus-buy decisions. Challenge assumptions and resolve tradeoffs without becoming a bottleneck. •Evaluate investments through revenue potential, margin, adoption, retention, implementation effort, risk, and customer value—not feature volume or internal enthusiasm. •Align Product, Engineering, Design, Sales, Marketing, Customer Success, Finance, Risk, Compliance, and Operations from discovery through launch, adoption, and iteration. •Guide product development across stablecoins, blockchain-based payment infrastructure, cross-border money movement, settlement, liquidity, and related regulatory considerations. •Set a high talent bar, clarify ownership, coach Product leaders and managers, strengthen succession capability, and create an environment of candor, curiosity, accountability, and low ego. •Maintain direct relationships with customers, partners, and industry stakeholders; use qualitative and quantitative evidence to identify problems worth solving and validate product-market fit. Qualifications: •Prior experience as an engineer, technical product leader, solutions architect, or comparable role that required hands-on understanding of software systems. •Deep experience in B2B payments, embedded finance, treasury management, the Office of the CFO, ERP ecosystems, or API-first financial infrastructure. •Solid functional working knowledge of U.S. and LATAM payments, banking, data, security, and regulatory environments. •AI-Native Leadership •Demonstrated results incorporating AI or agentic systems into product development, research, analytics, decision support, customer experiences, or operating workflows. •Designs repeatable systems that increase execution capacity, reduce manual work, improve decision quality, and make knowledge reusable across teams. •Continuously challenges how work is performed—not only within Product, but across connected functions—and converts experimentation into durable, measurable business improvements. •Balances speed and calculated risk with appropriate controls, clear guardrails, and accountability for outcomes. Compensation: •Flexible work environment (work from home / hybrid options) •Up to $253,000 On target earnings (base salary + bonus target opportunity) Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!