Product

Spade•New York, NY

29d•$180,000 - $275,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Financial institutions process billions of transactions every day across cards, ACH, wires, and third party aggregators. But most of that data is difficult to use. Descriptions are inconsistent, merchant names don’t match, and categories vary by payment type. Spade’s API takes these raw, messy transactions, and in <50 ms, returns clean, structured records linked to verified businesses in our proprietary database. Building on that foundation, our agent layer leverages this enriched data to automate insights and decision-making. Customers including Stripe, FIS, Bilt, Citizens, and Mercury use Spade to authorize more transactions, personalize experiences, power rewards programs, and more. We lead the market in merchant coverage, speed of enrichment, and data accuracy, enriching hundreds of billions of dollars in transaction volume every month. Spade is a fast growing, Series A company backed by industry experts and top tier investors (including a16z, Flourish Ventures, Y-Combinator, and Gradient Ventures). We’re a lean and execution-oriented hybrid team, passionate about building exceptional products for our growing customer base. We care deeply about diversity of background, experience, and opinion. We value empathy, curiosity, and passion, and strive to create an environment where individuals have autonomy and the ability to take ownership over their work. Spade is looking for our first product hire to be a driving force behind our mission to make transaction data clean, structured, and actionable for financial institutions. In this role, you won't just manage a product, you'll own and shape core features of our platform and partner on our overall product strategy. As our first dedicated product hire, you'll partner closely with the CEO, sales, data science and engineering to define what we build and why.

Requirements

5-9+ years of product management experience at a high-growth B2B startup
Based in NYC
Proven track record of building or launching products end-to-end, from early ideation through delivery and iteration
Background in fintech or payments — you understand the key players, regulatory landscape, and nuances of building financial products
Strong technical fluency — you can partner effectively with engineers, understand API-first products, and make informed trade-off decisions
Exceptional communicator — you can make complex ideas feel simple for both technical and non-technical audiences
Comfortable being the first and building a playbook
Interest in leveraging AI to accelerate execution

Nice To Haves

Experience with transaction or payments data
Familiarity with developer-facing or API-first products
Prior experience working directly with a founder or CEO on product strategy
Experience at a Seed –Series C fintech or financial infrastructure company
Prior experience as the first or only Product hire at a company

Responsibilities

Translate vision into a defensible product roadmap by synthesizing customer insights, market signals, and business goals
Act as a strategic partner to the CEO and leadership team, shaping market positioning, competitive differentiation, and long-term platform bets
Partner with sales and customers to extract signal from wins, losses, and conversations, and turn it into product direction
Drive alignment across engineering, sales, and leadership on priorities, trade-offs, and sequencing
Set design and UX standards as Spade moves from API-only to a full platform
Establish success metrics that hold the product accountable to outcomes, not outputs, using research, usage data, and market analysis to inform decisions
Build the product function at Spade — processes, frameworks, and standards that scale as the team grows