Kraken.Com
Senior Product Manager - Payments Platform
United Kingdom, Remote. Posted a month ago
The role
This person will own the product vision and roadmap for the Payward payments platform. They will manage the shared backend and integration surfaces including hosted pages, SDKs, embedded components, and direct APIs.
What you will do
- Own the product vision and roadmap for the Payward payments platform
- Map requirements across internal clients to evolve platform vision and capabilities
- Partner with engineering to turn target vision into a sequenced roadmap
- Prioritize across competing client needs and make trade-offs visible
- Shape the client experience end to end from first conversation to go-live
- Work with banking and partnerships teams to build PSP or bank integrations
- Bring compliance, risk and legal requirements into the roadmap early
- Set and track platform success metrics
Required qualifications
- 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in a platform, API or infrastructure role
- Working knowledge of payments: pay-ins and payouts, PSPs and acquirers, bank rails (ACH, SEPA, Faster Payments, SWIFT and local methods), and how money flows between them
- Strong technical fluency to read an RFC, challenge architecture decisions, and write API specs
- Experience shipping developer-facing products such as APIs, SDKs, or embeddable UI components
- Clear, structured writing
- Skill at managing many stakeholders and building alignment without direct authority
- Comfort working with data to set goals and measure platform adoption and performance
Nice to have
- Experience at a PSP, payment orchestrator or payments infrastructure company, or building one in-house
- Background with multi-tenant SaaS or B2B2C platforms
- Familiarity with crypto, stablecoins or on/off-ramps
- Experience working across multiple regulated legal entities or licensing regimes
Before you apply
- We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments
About the company
Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. It has spent 15 years building financial infrastructure platforms to advance an open, global financial system.