Product Manager - Payments + Identity (Temp Contract Mat Cover)

Reown; England; Remote; GBP 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Reown seeks a Temporary Product Manager for a 6-month maternity cover, focusing on enhancing payment and KYC features. The role entails leading innovative strategies in crypto payments and identity solutions within a remote-first setting, requiring a blend of leadership and technical expertise in web3.

Benefits

Competitive salary

Crypto-friendly benefits

Career growth opportunities

Fully remote-first company

Qualifications

• 4+ years in product or engineering leadership in web3.
• 2+ years managing payments or identity/KYC products end-to-end.
• Expertise in crypto payment flows and wallet custody models.

Responsibilities

• Evolve adoption of Pay with Exchange; optimize checkout experience.
• Shape, validate, and prioritize KYC capabilities for a production-ready backlog.
• Lead feedback loops to enhance customer experience and conversion.

Skills

Product Leadership

Payments

KYC

B2B APIs

User Experience

SQL

Job description

Welcome to Reown, the onchain UX platform.

Founded in 2018, Reown (formerly WalletConnect Inc.) began with a QR code protocol and pioneered the 1st Web3Modal, the first tool enabling developers to integrate multiple wallets into dApps via a customizable interface. Today, Reown is a leading platform delivering web3 developer toolkits—AppKit and WalletKit—that power seamless, secure, and intuitive digital ownership experiences.

Our mission is to make blockchain technology accessible and user-friendly. Reown connects a global network of users, wallets, and dApps, and today, we've bridged:
• 300M+ Total Connections
• 45M+ Global Active Users
• 4.7M+ Unique Monthly Wallets
• 62K+ Connected dApps
• 700+ Wallets across web, mobile, and Telegram apps

Our suite of cutting-edge toolkits, including AppKit and WalletKit, empowers builders, developers, and end-users to enhance web3 interactions. AppKit facilitates smooth wallet integrations, login options, and on-chain transactions, while WalletKit secures and simplifies wallet connections to thousands of apps, supporting both EVM and non-EVM blockchains (Ethereum, Solana, Bitcoin, etc.) .

Backed by $38M in funding from top crypto and infrastructure investors, including Union Square Ventures, 1kx, Shopify, Coinbase Ventures, Circle Ventures, and Uniswap Labs—including a $13M Series B in 2025—Reown is a remote-first, global team driven by openness, simplicity, and innovation. Our technology is trusted by industry leaders across the decentralized space.

We are committed to bridging the gaps between onboarding users into blockchain and enabling easy interactions between them and decentralized applications. If you're passionate about making blockchain technology accessible and user-friendly, we invite you to join our team and contribute to our mission.

The Role

Duration: Full-time, 6 Month Temporary Contract (Maternity Cover); Location: REMOTE; Preferred Living Locations or Time zones: EMEA (Overlap09:00-15:00 CET)

Role Summary

Reown is seeking a Temporary Product Manager to cover a maternity leave, with a focus on Payments and Identity (KYC). You will report into the Head of Product. The main responsibilities for the role include:

1. Evolve and scale adoption of Pay With Exchange across PSPs (Payments Service Providers), gateways and merchants, driving adoption and increasing the value provided to customers.
2. Improve and optimize the current checkout experience introducing and promoting new standards and working with POS solutions and PSPs to optimize the use of crypto payments online and in real life.
3. Shape, validate and prioritise KYC / Travel-Rule capabilities. From wallet-ownership verification to broader compliance workflows, so that a production-ready backlog is ready for 2026 execution.

Core Responsibilities

• Evolve and scale adoption of Pay with exchange, shape and ship new products within the checkout and subscription space.
• Lead feedback loops with integrators to facilitate adoption and to improve experience and conversion.
• Improve and optimize the current checkout experience, introducing and promoting new standards across PSP and POS ecosystems
• Partner with BD on pilot integrations and measure funnel metrics.
• Shape discovery for Identity & KYC features that can enhance the payments services altogether
• Maintain a transparent, data-driven roadmap.

• 4 + years of product or engineering leadership in web3 or blockchain tooling.
• 2 + years owning payments or identity/KYC products end-to-end.
• Proven launches of B2B APIs or SDKs that delivered measurable adoption lift.
• Expert grasp of crypto payment flows, wallet custody models, and EVM / non-EVM chains.
• Demonstrated ability to weave KYC/AML and Travel-Rule compliance into frictionless UX.
• Harness AI to accelerate decision-making, uncover insights, and prototype faster. You anticipate how
• Defines KPIs, instruments funnels, queries data (SQL/BI) and runs A/B tests.
• Skilled in rapid discovery and translating insights into shipped features.
• Remote-first leader who aligns engineering, design, and GTM toward OKRs.
• Strategic researcher who converts market and competitor intel into roadmap moves.
• Clear, concise communicator in English; excels at async documentation and stakeholder presentations.
• Entrepreneurial ownership mindset; thrives amid ambiguity and drives innovation.

Why Join Reown?

• Shape the future of Web3 wallet connectivity and security.
• Work with top wallet providers, custodians, and institutional players in blockchain.
• Fully remote-first company with a collaborative and high-impact team.
• Competitive salary, crypto-friendly benefits, and career growth opportunities.

Learn Our SDKs:

• Learn more about our two SDKs: AppKit and WalletKit
• If you’re passionate about educating and enabling wallets & custodians with cutting-edge Web3 solutions, we’d love to hear from you!