Technical Product Manager (OTE $70,000/year USD), @Sparkrock Pay

Are you a high-performing product leader looking to drive strategic initiatives in a flexible, 100% remote environment? Do you want to work with a best-in-class team alongside some of the brightest minds in tech and mission-focused innovation?

At Sparkrock, we help social benefit organizations—such as nonprofits, school boards, and government agencies—operate more effectively. Every day, tens of thousands of users rely on our platforms to manage critical financial and administrative workflows.

Sparkrock is seeking a Technical Product Manager to help drive the evolution of Sparkrock Pay, our K–12 payments and form management platform. This role sits at the intersection of payments, financial workflows, and digital form collection, facilitating mission-critical processes for school boards, administrators, and parents. You will be working on a platform that directly impacts how funds and data are collected, tracked, reconciled, and reported across educational institutions. This is a high-ownership role for a product leader who thrives in complex, workflow-heavy environments and is comfortable working across both technical systems and real-world operational processes.

If you’re energized by building reliable, scalable systems that handle real money and real-world constraints, this role is for you.

Responsibilities

• Work with business representatives to translate product strategy into detailed requirements and partner closely with engineering and design teams

• Collaborate cross-functionally with Sales, Customer Success, Marketing, and Professional Services

• Work on API-driven integrations and system workflows, ensuring scalability and reliability

• Improve exception handling, operational efficiency, and financial accuracy across the platform

• Establish and use analytics to measure product performance and drive continuous improvement

• Build strong customer feedback loops through discovery sessions and ongoing engagement

• Stay current on trends in payments and SaaS platforms, applying them pragmatically

The role can grow into:

• Owning the vision, strategy, roadmap, and success metrics for Sparkrock Pay

• Driving product discovery by working directly with school boards, administrators, and payment providers to understand pain points and workflows

• Designing and evolving payment and form-management workflows, including collections, reporting, and reconciliation

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience in SaaS or FinTech environments

• Experience with reconciliation, reporting, or financial operations workflows

• Experience working on payments, financial systems, or workflow-heavy platforms

• Experience working in K––12 education, public sector, or nonprofit environments

• Strong technical fluency, including:

APIs and integrations

System workflows and data models

Collaboration on architecture and system design

• Experience working closely with engineering teams to deliver scalable, reliable systems

• Familiarity with cloud environments (e.g., Azure, AWS)

• Strong product discovery and problem-solving skills

• Ability to define and track meaningful product metrics

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

Nice to have

• Familiarity with ERP-integrated systems

Benefits

We strive to build a team that reflects the diversity of the community we work in and encourage applications from traditionally underrepresented groups such as women, visible minorities, Indigenous peoples, people identifying as LGBTQ2SI, veterans, and people with disabilities.

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.