Senior Product Manager - Payments Platform

United States, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

The Senior Product Manager will own the product vision and roadmap for the Payward payments platform. This includes managing the shared backend and integration surfaces like APIs, SDKs, and hosted pages.

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 create a sequenced, high-impact roadmap
Prioritize across competing client needs and make trade-offs visible
Shape the client experience end to end from conversation to go-live
Work with banking and partnerships teams to build integrations for all Payward businesses
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)
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

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 builds financial infrastructure platforms to advance an open, global financial system.