Product Manager (AI)

Location: Remote - Nebraska, United States, with a hybrid work option. Associates living within 30 miles of an office location work remotely part of the week and are expected to be in the office three days per week.

Annual compensation: $120,000–$140,000, depending on experience.

Company

hirify.global Business Services provides payment technology and education services to higher education institutions, K-12 schools, students, families, and supporters.

What you will do

• Own the product strategy, roadmap, backlog, and lifecycle for the SGO Compass Disbursement solution.
• Manage the approved-award-to-payment-completion experience, including payment authorization, recipient verification, execution, settlement, reconciliation, refunds, reversals, recovery, and exception management.
• Conduct market, client, K-12, competitive, and stakeholder research with schools, families, financial institutions, payment providers, merchants, and approved service providers.
• Translate research into prioritized requirements for qualified expense validation, fund controls, payment restrictions, payee verification, bank account validation, fraud prevention, and duplicate payment detection.
• Partner with engineering, Finance, Treasury, Legal, Compliance, Marketing, business development, operations, and implementation partners to deliver iterative platform initiatives and go-to-market readiness.
• Define KPIs and use product performance data to improve payment accuracy, disbursement timeliness, transaction efficiency, financial controls, adoption, and recipient experience.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree required in business, finance, information technology, financial technology, computer science, or a related field.
• 6–8 years of product management experience required.
• Experience with disbursement and payout products, including ACH, prepaid or virtual card issuance, and digital wallets.
• Experience with marketplace or closed-loop spend products, such as HSA/FSA-style card programs, and with building and managing provider or merchant networks.
• Experience with payment or disbursement fraud prevention.
• Proven experience defining, developing, launching, and managing successful products in an Agile environment using market research, data-driven decisions, and human-centered design.
• Experience leading organizational change, communicating change, and supporting stakeholder alignment and adoption.
• Strong strategic thinking, product strategy, roadmap management, data-driven decision-making, cross-functional influence, customer-centric discovery, and measurable-outcome delivery skills.
• Knowledge of treasury management, card issuing programs, risk management, AML/BSA, state money transmitter regulations, and two-sided marketplace strategy.
• Must already be authorized to work in the United States without current or future sponsorship.

Nice to have

• Advanced degree.
• Product management certification.
• Additional education or professional training in payment systems, financial services, treasury management, banking, or financial technology.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work environment supporting remote work part of the week and in-office collaboration three days per week for eligible associates.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, and FSA benefits.
• Earned time off, life insurance, AD&D insurance, short- and long-term disability, and an employee assistance program.
• 401(k), student loan repayment, employee stock purchase program, tuition reimbursement, performance-based incentive pay, and wellness program.
• Welcoming and respectful workplace with equal employment opportunity and reasonable accommodation support.