# Principal Product Manager, Payments at Zuora

> Remote · United States · Principal · Product · open. Source: https://alderhq.app/jobs/greenhouse%3Azuora%3A7559435 (read 2026-11-04).

## Facts (observed)

- Company: [Zuora](https://alderhq.app/companies/zuora)
- Location text: Remote - United States; Foster City; Remote - United States
- Where it can be done from (inferred): Remote · United States (evidence: "Remote role open worldwide")
- Posted: 2026-01-29 (279 days ago)
- First seen by alder: 2026-11-02 · last verified: 2026-11-04
- Reposted: 0 times · edited: 1 times
- Apply on the employer's site: https://boards.greenhouse.io/zuora/jobs/7559435?gh_jid=7559435
- Skills listed (inferred): Node.js, Java, Kafka, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, Spark, Distributed systems

## Pay and sponsorship

- Posted pay: $185k–$278k per year (from the listing's pay field)
- Market band for similar posted roles (SF Bay Area, n 26): p25 $223k, median $239k, p75 $282k
- H-1B filings at this company for similar roles, FY26: 1 ([US DOL OFLC LCA disclosure data](https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance))
- Licensed UK sponsor: registered as "Zuora UK Limited" (checked 2026-11-03, [register](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/register-of-licensed-sponsors-workers))

## Description (the employer's text)

### About Zuora

At Zuora, we help businesses grow smarter and adapt faster. Our platform powers modern business models — from subscriptions and usage-based pricing to AI-driven and outcome-based offerings — helping companies launch new products, automate complex billing, and unlock predictable, recurring revenue.

We’ve led the Subscription Economy for more than a decade. Now we’re evolving again by building the definitive platform for quote to cash and helping companies monetize their products and services with an adaptable, AI-ready foundation.

### The Opportunity and The Team

We are looking for a Principal Product Manager, Payments to lead the next chapter of Zuora’s global payments platform and coverage strategy. In this senior individual-contributor role, you will be responsible for defining and driving the long-term roadmap for global payment acceptance, platform capabilities, and payment coverage, ensuring that our customers can seamlessly process payments anywhere in the world.

You will operate at the intersection of product, engineering, architecture, and partnerships, shaping how Zuora integrates with payment processors, acquirers, and orchestration partners globally. You have previously built and launched payments platforms and global payment features at scale with a prior company, and you bring 10+ years of hands-on payments domain experience building and scaling integrations across regions.

You will partner closely with product and engineering leaders, be the face to the customers, mentor other ZEOs in the payments area, and serve as a key thought partner to Zuora’s leadership on payments strategy. If you are passionate about building scalable, resilient payment platforms that power the Subscription Economy globally, this is the perfect time to join our team.

Our Tech Stack: Java, Spring, Rest API, Microservices, Kafka, Spark, NodeJS, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, AngularJS

### What you’ll do

### Lead the Global Payments Platform & Coverage Strategy

Define, own, and execute the multi-year product strategy and roadmap for Zuora’s payments platform, including global acceptance, payment coverage, and core platform capabilities that serve all payment processors integrated with Zuora.

### Drive Complex Processor & Orchestration Integrations

Lead the end-to-end lifecycle of complex integrations with payment processors, acquirers, and orchestration partners—from ideation, technical scoping, and design through launch, rollout, and ongoing optimization.

### Scale Global Payment Features and Functionality

Design and launch global payment features (e.g., new payment methods, wallets, local schemes, risk and compliance capabilities, routing/orchestration patterns) that improve authorization rates, coverage, and resilience across regions.

### Optimize Payment Performance at Scale

Analyze payment success rates and processing data across geographies and processors to identify opportunities to improve authorization rates, reduce transaction failures, and enhance redundancy and resiliency of our payment flows.

### Set Standards for Integration & Platform Quality

Establish best practices, patterns, and reusable building blocks for payment integrations (APIs, configuration models, error handling, reconciliation, observability), ensuring new integrations and features are scalable, secure, and maintainable.

### Collaborate Cross-Functionally and Across Time Zones

Work closely with engineering, architecture, design, data, and partner management teams—often across US, Beijing, and India time zones—to deliver robust payment solutions that meet the complex needs of global enterprise customers.

### Serve as the Payments Domain Expert

Act as the internal subject matter expert on payment gateways, acquirers, schemes, alternative payment methods, and payment orchestration. Provide guidance to internal teams and customers on global payment best practices and regulatory considerations.

### Be the Focal Point for Customers and Partners

Serve as a primary point of contact for strategic customers and payment partners for coverage, platform, and integration topics in the US time zone, while aligning closely with engineering and stakeholder teams in Beijing and India.

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