Product Manager – Payments

Recruit Digital is now part of Salt, a global, award-winning digital recruitment agency, connecting people and businesses within Creative, Marketing, Sales, and Technology. Over 250 consultants are "Creating Futures" around the world and change the lives of 1000s of people each year by helping them to start new roles in some of the most exciting start-ups, scale-ups, agencies or large global powerhouses. We cover permanent as well as contract roles and have offices in Auckland, Cape Town, Dubai, Johannesburg, Hong Kong, Kuala Lumpur, London, Melbourne, New York, Singapore, and Sydney. Our services range from single hires to covering complete outsourcing solutions involving business change. We partner with our clients to find and place not only the best individual talent but also produce the most impressive and exciting digital teams across the globe. In New Zealand, our market coverage extends to Accounting & Finance, Business Support & Operations, and Supply Chain & Logistics. Salt also recently acquired APAC-based specialist digital, tech, media, and sales firm, Xpand to further increase our global talent services. Together with the new teams, we will have a stronger presence in the market as they join our vision in "Creating Futures" for our customers globally that will positively impact the digital economy. A high-growth fintech business is looking for a deeply technical Product Manager to take ownership of a mission-critical payments and integrations platform. This team powers millions of transactions and works at the heart of online and in-store payment experiences across South Africa. This is not a "business-only" Product role. You'll be embedded with Engineering, owning API and integration strategy end-to-end while helping scale a modern payments ecosystem. If you enjoy solving complex technical problems, improving platform reliability, and working closely with developers on architecture and integrations, this is the kind of challenge that will keep you engaged. What you'll be doing Owning the roadmap for APIs, SDKs, webhooks, merchant plugins, and payment integrations Driving API strategy, versioning, developer experience, and platform scalability Partnering closely with Engineering on architecture decisions and system design Defining technical requirements including API contracts, data models, and integration flows Leading delivery across integrations, certifications, testing, and production rollouts Improving platform reliability, transaction success rates, latency, and observability Working with PSPs, gateways, and technical partners to improve integrations and capabilities Supporting commercial teams with technical feasibility and integration assessments What they're looking for Strong experience as a Technical Product Manager working on APIs, platforms, or integrations Solid payments or fintech exposure, ideally involving gateways, PSPs, or transaction flows Deep understanding of REST APIs, webhooks, authentication, integrations, and distributed systems Ability to write detailed technical specifications and work confidently with engineers Exposure to tools like Postman, Datadog, Splunk, SQL, or similar platforms Someone commercially aware who can connect technical decisions back to customer and business impact A hands-on, detail-oriented mindset with a strong focus on reliability and scalability