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🚀 VP of Product, Fintech | United States | Pax8
Join Pax8 as our VP of Product, Fintech and shape the future of financial infrastructure powering the world's favorite marketplace for technology professionals.
🌟 Why This Role Matters
This is a rare opportunity to define and scale the financial operating system behind a global marketplace while simultaneously helping create the commerce foundations required for the AI economy. You'll lead strategy for business-critical financial platforms, influence executive decision-making, and help determine how future digital transactions are bought, sold, settled, and managed.
At Pax8, you'll grow alongside rapidly evolving technology, helping pioneer new approaches to product leadership in an AI-enabled organization while building solutions that directly support partners around the world.
💙 Life at Pax8
Pax8 is a purpose-driven, high-growth organization where innovation, learning, and collaboration are part of everyday life. Our culture is built around Compassionate Candor, We Before Me, and Light Up Learning, creating an environment where curiosity, ownership, and bold ideas thrive.
As we continue our journey toward the managed intelligence marketplace, you'll partner with talented teams across Product, Engineering, Finance, Operations, and Commercial functions to build category-defining capabilities at global scale.
🎯 What You'll Be Doing
🏗 Financial Platform Strategy & Vision
Define and evolve the product vision for Pax8's next-generation Revenue Lifecycle Management platform.
Build and manage a strategic roadmap across quoting, fulfillment, metering, foreign exchange, order-to-cash processes, and product information services.
Align priorities across business needs, technical realities, compliance obligations, and future growth opportunities.
✅ Compliance-Driven Product Leadership
Transform regulatory and financial requirements into competitive product advantages.
Partner closely with Finance, Compliance, and Operations teams to ensure reliable, auditable, scalable outcomes.
Champion controls, transparency, and trust without sacrificing innovation or delivery speed.
🤖 Building the AI Commerce Layer
Develop product capabilities supporting emerging AI-driven consumption models and financial transactions.
Explore and validate new approaches to usage-based billing, token consumption, settlement, and future commerce primitives.
Enable Pax8 to move quickly in emerging markets while maintaining operational excellence.
💼 Customer & Financial Experience
Create seamless financial experiences for partners and internal stakeholders.
Ensure invoicing, billing, reconciliation, and settlement experiences are trusted, intuitive, and scalable.
Drive platform reliability that supports global growth and operational confidence.
🤝 Enterprise Stakeholder Leadership
Build trusted partnerships with Finance, Operations, Commercial, and Executive Leadership teams.
Balance business priorities while effectively managing competing needs and trade-offs.
Serve as a highly visible product leader across the organization.
🌱 Team Leadership & Development
Build and develop a world-class fintech product organization.
Foster a culture of learning, accountability, innovation, and inclusion.
Coach product leaders and strengthen organizational product capabilities.
📈 Industry Thought Leadership
Stay at the forefront of financial infrastructure, digital commerce, AI-enabled transactions, and regulatory evolution.
Contribute strategic insight to long-term platform investments, partnerships, and acquisitions.
Help shape the future direction of fintech within Pax8.
🚀 The Impact You'll Make
The systems you lead will sit at the heart of Pax8's global marketplace. Your work will influence how revenue flows through the business, how partners experience our platform, and how future AI-powered transactions are brought to life. You'll help create the financial foundation that enables scalability, innovation, compliance, and growth for years to come.
🧠 What Success Looks Like
We're looking for someone who brings:
Extensive product leadership experience within platform, fintech, marketplace, billing, or commerce infrastructure environments.
Proven success defining strategy and delivering complex platform products at scale.
Deep understanding of subscription lifecycle management, usage-based models, pricing structures, and billing operations.
Strong knowledge of financial controls, auditability, revenue recognition, taxation, and compliance frameworks within global organizations.
Technical fluency that enables productive partnership with engineering leaders on architecture, data integrity, platform reliability, and scalability.
A compelling point of view on the future of AI-native commerce and emerging transaction models.
Demonstrated ability to lead through ambiguity, influence executives, and align diverse stakeholder groups.
Experience building, developing, and leading high-performing product organizations.
Comfort operating in fast-moving, AI-enabled product development environments.
Exceptional communication and storytelling skills across technical, commercial, operational, and executive audiences.
🔒 Trust, Transparency & Hiring
At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships — starting with how we hire.
To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we're excited to meet you.
We also use thoughtfully applied AI-enabled tools to support our hiring process. These tools may assist with tasks such as reviewing or prioritizing applications, but hiring decisions are made by our people. More information is available in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. If you have questions about how we hire or would prefer not to have your application supported by these tools, you can opt out at any part of our process.
🌍 Everyone Belongs Here
We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria. We're committed to diverse perspectives, inclusive hiring and sharing your transferrable skills. To fulfil this role, you must hold valid right to work in United States.
💰 Compensation & Benefits
Salary Range: $250,000 - $300,000 USD annually, depending on experience.
Competitive compensation aligned to experience and market benchmarks
Annual performance bonus opportunities
Stock option participation
Professional development opportunities
LinkedIn Learning access
Wellbeing coaching and support resources
Company social events and community activities
Flexible remote-first working environment
📚 Growth & Development
There's extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace — whether that's advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organization. You'll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential. Alongside specialist Learning & Development trainers, you'll also tap into AI powered tools, "born in the cloud" mentors, and cross continent collaboration that broaden your perspective and sharpen your expertise. We'll give you the space, trust, and the right projects to help you thrive — and full visibility of what it takes to reach your next level.
💙 About Pax8
Our mission is to build the managed intelligence marketplace and empower small businesses to do more with smarter technology. We are a fast-growing, dynamic, and high-energy organization with a start-up feel, allowing you to make a meaningful impact on the business. Culture is also important to us, and at Pax8, it's business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8 continuously. We Celebr8 life.
✅ Background Checks
As part of our hiring process, we are required to undertake pre-employment checks on all candidates that are successful in their application with Pax8. As part of these checks Pax8 will request ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks (additional checks may be completed for certain countries, such as criminal and financial). All checks are completed by our third-party provider, First Advantage. Once checks have been completed all candidates will receive a copy for their records.
⚖️ Equal Opportunities
Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the country you have applied for. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with local best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes. Privacy notice:
At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust‑based relationships — starting with how we hire.
To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change.
By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you’re applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we’re excited to meet you.
Perks:
At Pax8 we believe that your Total Rewards should include a benefits package that shows how much we value our greatest assets. All FTE Pax8 people enjoy the following benefits:
401(k) with Company Match
Medical, Dental & Vision Coverage
Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
Employer-Paid Life, AD&D, Short-Term Disability & Long-Term Disability Insurance
Flexible Open PTO
Paid Sick Leave
Paid Parental Leave
RTD EcoPass (eligible Colorado-based employees)
Please take a moment to review our Proprietary Rights and Non-Competition Agreement — this document outlines important information about your rights and responsibilities if you join our team.
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Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.