Senior Product Manager - Payments Platform

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

The opportunity

Own the product vision and roadmap for the Payward payments platform

The team 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 amp 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

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

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

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.