Payment Methods Specialist

About the role

Unlimit seeks a Payment Methods Specialist to anchor the strategic execution of Alternative Payment Methods (APMs) across a fragmented global landscape. This position sits at the confluence of product strategy, engineering execution, and operational oversight. The specialist will serve as the central authority on payment method viability, ensuring that every integration meets stringent standards for reliability, compliance, and performance. Success in this role requires the ability to transform complex regional demands into coherent technical specifications that the engineering team can implement with precision. The focus is on building durable payment foundations that enable market expansion without compromising integrity. You will be the definitive source of truth for payment behaviors, orchestrating cross-functional alignment to deliver seamless financial experiences. Your work will directly influence the speed and security with which Unlimit enters new territories and serves autonomous agents. Ultimately, you ensure that the infrastructure powering transactions is robust, scalable, and aligned with the evolving needs of a borderless economy.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Execute the end-to-end lifecycle for new Alternative Payment Methods, translating ambiguous market requirements into concrete technical deliverables.
• Validate regulatory and risk constraints for every payment option, converting legal jargon into actionable rules for engineering and product teams.
• Architect integration blueprints in collaboration with engineering, specifying API structures, data schemas, and error resolution workflows with meticulous detail.
• Design and manage validation suites that rigorously test transaction behavior in pre-production environments, identifying edge cases before user exposure.
• Coordinate regional test deployments, monitoring payment rails under specific market conditions to ensure legal and operational compliance is maintained.
• Finalize rollout checklists in partnership with commercial partners, detailing support documentation, operational monitoring thresholds, and success metrics.
• Establish feedback loops with operations teams to refine failure handling procedures and streamline recovery processes for each payment option.
• Map complex dependency chains across banking networks, acquiring processors, and third-party providers to reduce friction and latency during market entry.
• Guide partner teams through method specifications, ensuring all future integrations adhere to Unlimit platform standards and long-term scalability goals.
• Conduct forensic analysis of transaction failures, identifying systemic root causes and instituting process improvements that prevent recurrence.
• Own the documentation and knowledge transfer for payment methods, ensuring continuity and clarity for cross-functional stakeholders.
• Partner with security teams to ensure that payment integrations adhere to data protection standards and fraud prevention protocols.
• Synthesize technical findings into clear narratives for non-technical stakeholders, aligning business objectives with technical constraints.
• Proactively identify gaps in the payment ecosystem and propose new capabilities that enhance Unlimit's value proposition in target markets.
• Act as the primary liaison between engineering, product, and operations for specific payment methods, driving alignment and execution.

Requirements

• Bring a minimum of three years of hands-on experience managing payment methods within live production environments, demonstrating a track record of reliability.
• Possess a deep understanding of regional regulatory landscapes, with the ability to convert compliance mandates into actionable technical guidance for engineering and product teams.
• Communicate clearly and effectively in English, capable of conveying intricate technical details to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa with precision and patience.
• Apply analytical rigor to dissect transaction failures, identify systemic root causes, and institute process improvements that eliminate recurring issues.
• Operate effectively while coordinating across distributed teams, maintaining ownership and accountability in a decentralized work environment.
• Navigate ambiguity with resilience, making informed decisions when requirements are incomplete or stakeholders hold conflicting priorities.
• Demonstrate a commitment to accuracy, ensuring that every integration detail aligns with the highest standards of quality and compliance.
• Collaborate with humility and curiosity, seeking input from experts in banking, compliance, and engineering to arrive at the best possible outcomes.

Nice to have

• Direct experience interfacing with AI agents that interact with financial infrastructure is noted as a valuable asset, understanding how automated systems consume payment capabilities and the implications for infrastructure design.

Practical notes

• This role is based in the Mexico Office and operates as a full-time engagement.
• The compensation package ranges from forty thousand to sixty thousand USD on an annual basis.
• The specialist will work within a high-capacity financial network, utilizing tools such as Jira, Confluence, APIs, and SQL to execute on Unlimit's mission to eliminate financial borders.
• By joining Unlimit, you contribute to the construction of the nervous system for a borderless global economy, where infrastructure evolves to serve both human and machine-led commerce.

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