Staff Product Manager, Data & Platform

The role

You will be the product lead for the Data and Engineering Enablement teams. You will turn foundational technology into customer and commercial value by shaping data, ML, and platform capabilities.

What you will do

• Set and communicate a coherent strategy for Kard's data and platform capabilities.
• Lead collaborative shaping with engineering, data, and business partners through Kard's Shape Up process.
• Turn transaction data, ML, and platform capabilities into products and business opportunities.
• Advance the intelligence behind Kard's offer platform.
• Define reusable capabilities for offer decisioning, delivery, matching, measurement, and partner integrations.
• Treat Kard's data and developer platforms as products.

Required qualifications

• Experience leading technically complex data, ML, or platform products across multiple teams.
• A record of turning data or foundational technology into measurable customer and commercial value.
• Working fluency across several relevant domains including data platforms, quality and governance, ML lifecycles, batch and real-time serving, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and developer platforms.
• Fluency in experimentation and measurement, including A/B testing, lift or incrementality, and partnership with data scientists.
• Strong discovery and shaping skills with technical users and business stakeholders.
• Ability to validate needs directly with external customers.
• Understanding of marketplace economics and marketer outcomes.
• The influence and judgment to align executives, leaders, and ICs.
• Entrepreneurial judgment paired with durable thinking about scale, security, privacy, and compliance.
• Commitment to fostering an inclusive work environment.
• Willingness to travel for company meetings.

Nice to have

• Experience in commerce media, card-linked offers, loyalty, fintech, adtech, or another transaction-intensive marketplace.
• Experience building marketer-facing insights, audience, measurement, or analytics products from first-party data.
• Experience with ML personalization, recommendations, merchant or location intelligence, entity resolution, or real-time decisioning.
• Experience with modern data or platform technologies such as Databricks, dbt, AWS, Kubernetes, and Terraform.

Benefits

• Flexible PTO with a minimum requirement to take one day off a quarter, ten days a year
• Observance of 11 Federal Holidays, plus an additional day each for Black Friday and Christmas Eve (US employees only)
• Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
• 401k with employer match (US employees only)
• Coworking space and WFH setup reimbursement
• Company Offsites for planning, team-building, and networking

About the company

Kard is building commerce media infrastructure that connects financial institutions, financial-services platforms, and merchants through data and merchant-funded rewards.