Staff Product Manager - Card Issuance

Nium•San Francisco, CA

2d•$164,000 - $205,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Nium, a global leader in real-time, cross-border payments, is seeking a Staff Product Manager to join its Card Issuance team. This senior individual contributor role will be a de-facto product leader, responsible for a key segment of the B2B card product across all served geographies. The role involves driving the entire product lifecycle, from discovery and roadmap development to launch and iteration, with a focus on integrating emerging technologies like AI and stablecoins into Nium's card platform. This is a hands-on position requiring close collaboration with engineering, scheme relations, compliance, sales, and external clients to deliver scalable, world-class card experiences.

Requirements

6+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years in card issuance, card processing, or a closely adjacent payments domain.
Hands-on experience with card scheme protocols (Visa and/or Mastercard), transaction lifecycles (authorisation, clearing, settlement, chargebacks), and ISO 8583 messaging.
Demonstrated ability to write detailed technical specifications and work shoulder-to-shoulder with engineering and architecture teams.
Proven track record of launching and scaling card products internationally across multiple markets and regulatory environments.
Strong command of AI productivity tools integrated into daily PM practice — including tools for requirements drafting, data analysis, user research synthesis, and workflow automation.
Understanding of stablecoins: mechanics of fiat-backed stablecoins, mint/burn flows, on-chain settlement, and their applicability to card-based payment rails.
Analytical rigour—comfortable forming and testing hypotheses with data, running A/B experiments, and defining success metrics before building.
Excellent communication and influencing skills; able to present complex technical and regulatory trade-offs to senior leadership and external clients.

Nice To Haves

Experience at a card issuer processor or a card network.
Exposure to tokenisation (network tokenisation, digital wallets such as Apple Pay / Google Pay).
Hands-on experience designing or launching a stablecoin-funded card or settlement product.
Familiarity with regulatory frameworks governing e-money, prepaid cards, and digital assets across APAC, EU, or US markets.
Experience working in a global, multi-timezone product team serving diverse B2B clients.

Responsibilities

Own and evolve the Card Issuance product roadmap, balancing near-term client demands with long-term platform vision.
Identify market opportunities in card-linked stablecoin settlement, AI-powered card controls, and embedded finance, and translate them into a prioritised backlog.
Conduct competitive analysis and customer research to stay ahead of trends in card issuing, tokenisation, and digital money.
Write precise product requirements, API specs, and user stories for engineering teams building card authorisation, clearing, settlement, and lifecycle management flows.
Drive integrations with card schemes (Visa, Mastercard, Discover), issuer processors, and digital wallet providers, ensuring compliance with scheme certification requirements.
Partner with engineering to evaluate and integrate AI-powered tooling into card operations workflows—such as real-time fraud scoring, spend analytics, and automated dispute management.
Lead the definition of stablecoin-to-card settlement flows, working with treasury, compliance, and engineering to design compliant, scalable infrastructure.
Act as the primary product interface for strategic B2B clients, translating their card programme needs into platform requirements.
Collaborate with Regulatory, Compliance, and Risk teams to understand market-specific requirements and embed them into the product.
Partner with the Programme Manager, Solution Engineering, and Sales to ensure new card programmes are onboarded smoothly and leverage existing platform capabilities.
Define and monitor key card product KPIs (approval rates, dispute rates, time-to-card, revenue per card) and drive data-informed improvements.
Champion data instrumentation across card features to enable self-serve analytics for internal and client-facing stakeholders.
Leverage AI tools to accelerate insight generation, reduce manual overhead in PM workflows, and improve the quality and speed of product decision-making.