Senior Product Manager - Payments Platform

Kraken

3d • $110,400 - $220,800

About The Position

Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers. Payward's Payments & Blockchain team owns the first and last mile of every dollar that moves in or out of its products. That means dozens of banking partners, PSPs and local rails powering deposits and withdrawals for millions of users. The team is looking for a product manager to shape the future of this platform, from the architecture underneath to the API layer internal clients build on. At the center is Payward's in-house PSP: a scalable, multi-tenant payments backend with hosted pages, SDKs, embedded components and direct APIs, so any Payward business can plug in and reach pay-in and payout rails worldwide.

Requirements

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in a platform, API or infrastructure role where your customers were other internal teams or developers
• 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. You can read an RFC, challenge an architecture decision, and write an API spec that engineers respect
• Experience shipping developer-facing products such as APIs, SDKs, or embeddable UI components
• Clear, structured writing. You turn complex system designs into docs that product, compliance and business stakeholders can all act on
• Skill at managing many stakeholders with different priorities, and building alignment without direct authority
• Comfort working with data to set goals and measure platform adoption and performance

Nice To Haves

• 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

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap for the Payward payments platform, covering both the shared backend and the integration surfaces internal clients build on (hosted pages, SDKs, embedded components and direct APIs)
• Map requirements across internal clients and use them to evolve the platform's vision and capabilities so it serves a growing range of use cases
• Partner with engineering to turn the target vision into a sequenced, high-impact roadmap, with milestones every client team can plan against
• Prioritize across competing client needs, make the trade-offs visible, and say no with a clear rationale
• Shape the client experience end to end, from first conversation to go-live, so teams can adopt the platform without heavy hand-holding
• Work with the banking and partnerships teams so each new PSP or bank integration is built once on the platform and reaches every Payward business
• Bring compliance, risk and legal requirements across Payward's entities and jurisdictions into the roadmap early, before they become launch blockers
• Set and track platform success metrics, such as time to launch a rail for an existing client, time for a new client to go live, share of rails available through the platform, and payment success rates

Benefits

• We consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
• We may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process.
• As an equal opportunity employer, we don't tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind, whether based on race, ethnicity, age, gender identity, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed