About the Role
Constellation Payment Processing is seeking an AI Product Owner to bridge the gap between partners and engineering teams during a critical platform migration. This role involves translating partner needs into features for an AI-first payment gateway, CSIPay, and managing the product backlog. The position requires significant partner interaction, with over 30% of time dedicated to direct engagement, and potential travel across the US and Canada.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary day-to-day product point of contact for an assigned book of partners, spending more than 30% of your time in direct commercial and technical conversations with them.
- Embed early in the lifecycle to uncover partner problems, workflows and integration constraints, capturing requirements at the source.
- Travel to partner sites for discovery sessions, working sessions, pilots and cutover support as needed.
- Act as the voice of the partner inside CPP, ensuring their priorities are represented in every backlog and delivery decision.
- Own, groom and prioritize the product backlog for your partner-facing scope, balancing partner urgency, migration commitments and technical dependencies.
- Utilize AI-DLC and AI Tools for immediate prototyping and delivery.
- Write clear, testable user stories, acceptance criteria and specifications, and make timely accept or reject decisions on delivered work.
- Lead backlog refinement, sprint planning and daily collaboration with Engineering, keeping the team unblocked and focused on the highest-value outcomes.
- Work with Engineering to get the exact items partners need into production, sequencing work so commitments are met without compromising quality.
- Apply CPP's AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC) across your work, using AI to accelerate discovery, requirements capture, story and spec generation, test case creation and documentation.
- Champion an AI-first mindset within the delivery team, continuously finding ways AI can improve product quality and shorten time-to-market.
- Prototype and validate concepts rapidly with AI tooling to de-risk decisions before committing engineering effort.
- Translate partner needs into precise, engineering-ready requirements, including API behavior, field-level mapping, data migration rules and edge cases.
- Maintain clear traceability from partner request through specification, delivery and acceptance.
- Partner with Engineering and R&D to pressure-test feasibility and define pragmatic, scalable solutions on CSIPay.
- Coordinate pilots, UAT, rollout and cutover activities directly with partners, including migration waves off Payrix onto CSIPay.
- Own launch readiness for your scope, including test validation, rollback expectations and go/no-go criteria, and drive fast post-launch iteration based on partner feedback.
- Provide clear, honest status to partners and internal stakeholders, including transparent reporting of risks and misses.
- Align stakeholders across Product, Engineering, Commercial, Risk and Partner Success, communicating trade-offs, decisions and delivery timelines clearly.
- Keep partners informed with structured updates, and keep leadership informed with concise reporting on delivery progress against partner and migration commitments.
Requirements
- 3+ years as a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager or equivalent, owning a backlog and delivering software with an Agile engineering team.
- Proven payments experience operating on, building or maintaining payment systems across Card and ACH rails, ideally for US payments.
- Proven partner-facing or customer-facing experience, comfortable leading both commercial and technical conversations and building trust with external stakeholders.
- Strong requirements craft, translating ambiguous needs into clear user stories, acceptance criteria and engineering-ready specifications using AI.
- Demonstrated ability to work closely with Engineering day to day, prioritizing and sequencing work to ship exactly what customers need.
- An AI-first mentality, with hands-on use of AI tools across discovery, requirements, prototyping, testing and documentation, and a defined track record of using AI to improve quality and speed.
- Exceptional communication skills, able to move fluidly between a partner boardroom and an engineering standup.
- Willingness and ability to travel for partner meetings.
- Experience at a PayFac, payment gateway, or ISV-first platform.
- Payments domain knowledge: PayFac model, merchant onboarding, KYC/KYB, tokenization, routing, settlement and payouts, chargebacks, and interchange.
- Technical proficiency with APIs/SDKs, webhooks, event schemas and integration patterns, and comfort reading API documentation.
- Experience supporting platform migrations or large-scale data migrations.
- Familiarity with Agile delivery tooling (Jira, Azure DevOps or equivalent) and product analytics.
- Degree in a quantitative or technical field (CS, Engineering, Math, Stats, Economics).
Skills
- AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AI-DLC)
- AI Tools
- Agile
- API behavior
- Field-level mapping
- Data migration rules
- Edge cases
- User stories
- Acceptance criteria
- Specifications
- Backlog refinement
- Sprint planning
- Prototyping
- Validation
- Requirements capture
- Test case creation
- Documentation
- Commercial conversations
- Technical conversations
- Payments systems
- Card rails
- ACH rails
- US payments
- PayFac model
- Merchant onboarding
- KYC/KYB
- Tokenization
- Routing
- Settlement
- Payouts
- Chargebacks
- Interchange
- APIs/SDKs
- Webhooks
- Event schemas
- Integration patterns
- API documentation
- Platform migrations
- Data migrations
- Jira
- Azure DevOps
- Product analytics
Location
- Toronto, ON
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Regular
Experience Level
- 3+ years as a Product Owner, Technical Product Manager or equivalent
Education Level
- Degree in a quantitative or technical field (CS, Engineering, Math, Stats, Economics)
Salary/Compensations
- $80,000 - $90,000 CAD (OTE: $100,000 CAD)
About the Company
- Constellation Payment Processing is a modern Payment Facilitator (PayFac) empowering SaaS businesses to grow revenue through seamless, embedded payments.
- As part of Constellation Software Inc. (TSE:CSU), a global Canadian-based software leader at a $96B market cap, we combine the agility of a specialized payments company with the strength and stability of an established global powerhouse.
- Jonas Software is a leading provider of enterprise management software solutions, serving a wide range of vertical markets including hospitality, healthcare, construction, education, personal care, fitness, leisure, moving and legal services, to name a few.
- Within these markets, Jonas is comprised of over 65 distinct brands, each a respected leader in its domain.
- Jonas’ vision is to be the branded global leader across these verticals and to be recognized by customers and industry stakeholders as the trusted provider of “Software for Life.”
- We are committed to technology, product innovation, quality, and exceptional customer service.
- Jonas Software supports over 60,000 customers in more than 30 countries.
- We employ over 6,000 skilled professionals, including industry experts and technology specialists.
- Across our broader network, we support a global workforce of more than 30,000 employees.
- Headquartered in Canada, Jonas Software has a global footprint with offices around the world.
- We’re a 100% owned subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc., based in Toronto, publicly listed on the TSX (CSU.TO), and a member of the S&P/TSX 60 Index.
