Senior Product Manager, Open Payments Platform & APIs

Kraken; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Payward Services is seeking aProduct Manager to shape the future of our payments platform, overseeing both the shared backend and client-facing integration surfaces (hosted pages, SDKs, embedded components and direct APIs).

The role requires proven PM experience in platform or infrastructure products, strong payments knowledge, and the ability to translate complex requirements into clear roadmaps and API specs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of product management experience, ideally in platform/API or infrastructure roles.
• Working knowledge of payments: pay-ins, payouts, PSPs, banks and rails.
• Strong technical fluency: read RFCs, challenge architecture, write API specs.
• Experience shipping developer-facing products: APIs, SDKs, embeddable UI.
• Clear, structured writing for cross-functional stakeholders.
• Ability to manage many stakeholders and build alignment without direct authority.
• Comfort using data to set goals and measure adoption and performance.

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap for the payments platform, including backend and integration surfaces.
• Translate internal client requirements into a sequenced, high-impact roadmap.
• Partner with engineering to plan milestones for each client team.
• Prioritize across client needs with clear rationales and trade-offs.
• Shape the end-to-end client experience from initial conversation to go-live.
• Collaborate with banking and partnerships to standardize integrations across Payward entities.
• Incorporate compliance, risk, and legal requirements early in the roadmap.
• Define platform success metrics and monitor time-to-launch and rails availability.

Skills

Product management

Payments knowledge

API design

Developer-facing products

Technical writing

Stakeholder management

Data-driven

Job description

Payward Services is seeking aProduct Manager to shape the future of our payments platform, overseeing both the shared backend and client-facing integration surfaces (hosted pages, SDKs, embedded components and direct APIs).

The role requires proven PM experience in platform or infrastructure products, strong payments knowledge, and the ability to translate complex requirements into clear roadmaps and API specs.