diff --git a/packages/core-events/src/payload-jobs-event-bus.test.ts b/packages/core-events/src/payload-jobs-event-bus.test.ts
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+import { describe, it, expect, vi } from "vitest";
+import { z } from "zod";
+import { defineEvent } from "@/event-descriptor";
+import { PayloadJobsEventBus } from "@/payload-jobs-event-bus";
+import type { IJobQueue } from "@repo/core-shared/jobs";
+
+const evt = defineEvent("auth.user.signed-up", z.object({ userId: z.string() }).strict());
+
+function recordingQueue(): IJobQueue & { enqueued: { taskSlug: string; input: unknown }[] } {
+  const enqueued: { taskSlug: string; input: unknown }[] = [];
+  const q: IJobQueue = {
+    async enqueue(taskSlug, input) {
+      enqueued.push({ taskSlug, input });
+      return { jobId: `recording-${enqueued.length}` };
+    },
+  };
+  return Object.assign(q, { enqueued });
+}
+
+describe("PayloadJobsEventBus", () => {
+  it("validates the payload before enqueueing", async () => {
+    const queue = recordingQueue();
+    const bus = new PayloadJobsEventBus(queue);
+    bus.subscribe(evt, "marketing-pages", vi.fn());
+    await expect(
+      bus.publish(evt, { userId: 42 } as unknown as { userId: string }),
+    ).rejects.toThrow();
+    expect(queue.enqueued).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+
+  it("enqueues one task per subscriber, naming `__events.<event>.<consumer>`", async () => {
+    const queue = recordingQueue();
+    const bus = new PayloadJobsEventBus(queue);
+    bus.subscribe(evt, "marketing-pages", vi.fn());
+    bus.subscribe(evt, "blog", vi.fn());
+    await bus.publish(evt, { userId: "u1" });
+    expect(queue.enqueued).toHaveLength(2);
+    expect(queue.enqueued.map((e) => e.taskSlug).sort()).toEqual([
+      "__events.auth.user.signed-up.blog",
+      "__events.auth.user.signed-up.marketing-pages",
+    ]);
+    expect(queue.enqueued[0]!.input).toEqual({ userId: "u1" });
+  });
+
+  it("enqueues nothing when no subscribers are registered", async () => {
+    const queue = recordingQueue();
+    const bus = new PayloadJobsEventBus(queue);
+    await bus.publish(evt, { userId: "u1" });
+    expect(queue.enqueued).toHaveLength(0);
+  });
+});
diff --git a/packages/core-events/src/payload-jobs-event-bus.ts b/packages/core-events/src/payload-jobs-event-bus.ts
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+import type { z } from "zod";
+import type { IJobQueue } from "@repo/core-shared/jobs";
+import type { EventDescriptor } from "./event-descriptor";
+import type { EventHandler, IEventBus } from "./event-bus.interface";
+
+/**
+ * Production-grade bus: for each subscriber, enqueues one Payload task per
+ * `publish()` call. Subscribers register with their consumer-feature name so
+ * fan-out tasks are named deterministically: `__events.<event>.<consumer>`.
+ * The actual handler invocation happens inside Payload's job runner — see the
+ * matching task config generated by `gen event consume` (Task 39).
+ */
+export class PayloadJobsEventBus implements IEventBus {
+  private readonly subscribers = new Map<string, string[]>();
+
+  constructor(private readonly queue: IJobQueue) {}
+
+  async publish<T>(
+    descriptor: EventDescriptor<string, z.ZodType<T>>,
+    payload: T,
+  ): Promise<void> {
+    descriptor.schema.parse(payload);
+    const consumers = this.subscribers.get(descriptor.name) ?? [];
+    await Promise.all(
+      consumers.map((consumerFeature) =>
+        this.queue.enqueue(
+          `__events.${descriptor.name}.${consumerFeature}`,
+          payload,
+        ),
+      ),
+    );
+  }
+
+  subscribe<T>(
+    descriptor: EventDescriptor<string, z.ZodType<T>>,
+    consumerFeature: string,
+    _handler: EventHandler<T>,
+  ): void {
+    const arr = this.subscribers.get(descriptor.name) ?? [];
+    if (!arr.includes(consumerFeature)) arr.push(consumerFeature);
+    this.subscribers.set(descriptor.name, arr);
+  }
+}