Senior Platform Product Manager – Payments & APIs

Kraken; United Arab Emirates; On-site; AED 400,000 - 640,000; Full time

Job summary

Payward’s Payments & Blockchain team seeks a Product Manager to own the vision and roadmap for the payments platform, including API surfaces and embedded components. You’ll work with engineering to sequence milestones, align internal clients, and drive adoption across rails, PSPs, and banks.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in platform/API/infrastructure product roles, strong technical fluency, and proven ability to ship developer-facing products while balancing many stakeholders and regulatory

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience in platform/API/infrastructure contexts.
• Experience shipping developer-facing products such as APIs, SDKs, or embeddable UI components.
• Strong writing and the ability to translate complex designs into docs for product, compliance, and business stakeholders.
• Ability to manage many stakeholders with different priorities and align without direct authority.
• Comfort using data to set goals and measure platform adoption and performance.
• Working knowledge of payments, PSPs, bank rails, and how money moves between them.
• Strong technical fluency; able to read an RFC, challenge architecture, and write API specs.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap for the Payward payments platform across architecture and API surfaces.
• Map requirements across internal clients and evolve the platform’s vision and capabilities.
• Partner with engineering to translate vision into a sequenced, high-impact roadmap with milestones.
• Prioritize competing client needs and articulate trade-offs with clear rationale.
• Shape the client experience end-to-end from initial conversation to go-live for smooth adoption.
• Collaborate with banking and partnerships teams to standardize integrations across rails and jurisdictions.
• Incorporate compliance, risk, and legal requirements early to avoid launch blockers.
• Set and track platform success metrics such as time-to-launch, time-to-live, and rails/adoption shares.

Skills

Product management

Technical fluency

Developer-facing products

Stakeholder management

Data-driven

Tools

APIs

SDKs

Job description

Payward’s Payments & Blockchain team seeks a Product Manager to own the vision and roadmap for the payments platform, including API surfaces and embedded components. You’ll work with engineering to sequence milestones, align internal clients, and drive adoption across rails, PSPs, and banks.

Ideal candidates have 5+ years in platform/API/infrastructure product roles, strong technical fluency, and proven ability to ship developer-facing products while balancing many stakeholders and regulatory