Payments Product Manager in San Francisco, California at Wander

About Wander

Wander is revolutionizing the $100 B+ short‑term rental industry. We curate every aspect of the guest experience—from our smart homes to our intuitive booking platform. Our mission is to help people find their happy place, and our vision is to create the infrastructure for people to experience the world.

Backed by top‑tier investors and led by experienced startup veterans, we're a tight‑knit, remote‑first team united by our passion for travel, technology, and creating unforgettable experiences.

Location: San Francisco (in-office, Letterman / Presidio)

Team: Product · Payments

Wander is building the future of travel: a vertically integrated platform of incredible vacation homes backed by hotel-grade hospitality and technology. Every stay runs on Wander's own booking and payments infrastructure, where a single transaction can move tens of thousands of dollars. Payments aren't a feature for us, they're core to the trust guests and owners place in the brand.

We're hiring a Payments Product Manager to own the money movement experience end to end, from a guest clicking "book" to owners getting paid. You'll partner closely with engineering, finance, and design to make high-value transactions feel instant and trustworthy, while keeping the underlying ledger accurate and reconcilable. This is a high-ownership role for someone who has built or scaled payments at a fintech or payments-led company and wants to bring that rigor to travel.

• The end-to-end booking payment flow: authorization, capture, installment plans (e.g., half-now/half-later), and confirmation, optimizing for immediate, reliable feedback on large transactions.
• Refunds, credits, points, and cancellations: the full lifecycle of getting money back to guests correctly and predictably.
• Invoicing, platform fees, transaction fees, and payout logic for property owners and partners.
• Reconciliation and financial integrity: ensuring the payments ledger ties out against Stripe and the data warehouse, partnering with finance and data.
• The payments roadmap: prioritizing across new payment methods, fraud and risk, authorization rates, and cost optimization.

• 4+ years of product management, with significant time spent on payments, billing, or financial infrastructure.
• Deep familiarity with payment processors (Stripe and similar), payment intents, capture flows, disputes, and settlement.
• Strong grasp of the tradeoffs in financial systems: synchronous vs. asynchronous flows, idempotency, ordering, and reconciliation. You understand why money movement is held to a higher bar than typical product work.
• Comfort working directly with engineers on service design and with finance on ledgers and revenue accuracy.
• Data fluency, able to query and reason about transaction-level data to find and resolve discrepancies.
• A bias toward shipping and an obsession with correctness; in payments, "mostly right" isn't right.

• Experience at a payments-led company (e.g., Stripe, Adyen, Brex, Block, Ramp, Modern Treasury, Column).
• Marketplace or two-sided payments experience (paying out third-party owners/hosts).
• Exposure to fraud, risk, or chargeback management.

• Own payments at a company where it's mission-critical, not a side system.
• Small, senior team with real scope and fast decisions.
• Beautiful SF office in the Presidio (Letterman), in-person and high-collaboration.