Principal Program Manager, Technical - Global Money Movement

Remitly; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 168,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible PTO

Health, dental, and vision + 401k

Paid parental leave

Mental Health benefits

Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)

Continuing education benefits

Job summary

Remitly is seeking a Principal Program Manager – Technical to own the global business disbursement program and drive network capabilities with platform investments that move money for businesses worldwide.

You will define long-term vision, architect scalable integration patterns, and steer AI-enabled discovery and execution. You’ll partner with engineering, compliance, and business teams, reporting to the Director of Global Money Movement.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of program management with measurable outcomes.
• Experience partnering with external partners and business development teams.
• Strong technical fluency and ability to discuss architecture and APIs.
• Track record of owning product or platform performance metrics (reliability, speed, cost, growth).
• Excellent analytical skills and ability to size opportunities using data (SQL).
• Proven ability to influence senior stakeholders up to VP level.
• Operator's bias for action with hands-on execution when needed.
• Strong product judgment balancing short-term results with durable competitive advantage.
• Experience applying AI tools to accelerate analysis and decision making.
• Payments/remittance or financial infrastructure experience preferred.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for the business disbursement program.
• Lead AI-enabled discovery, analysis, and program operations to move faster with quality.
• Collaborate with external partners and represent the program to BD and leadership.
• Understand Remitly services and APIs to inform scalable integration patterns.
• Drive internal teams to build required features with clear requirements and judgment.
• Identify customer pain points, market shifts, and competitive opportunities.
• Ground decisions in data, size opportunities, and drive prioritization.
• Elevate product thinking with a vision for scalable, platform-oriented solutions.

Skills

Program management

Technical fluency

Analytical skills

Stakeholder influence

AI enabled thinking

Payments domain

External partnerships

Architecture discussion

Operational execution

Tools

SQL

APIs

Distributed systems

Job description

Job Description: At Remitly, we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access, move, and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011, we've tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally, providing secure, simple, and reliable ways to manage their money, ensuring true peace of mind. Whether it's supporting loved ones back home, growing a business across continents, or pursuing new opportunities abroad, we're not just here to move money— we're here to move our global customers forward.

About the Role: The Global Network team is looking for a Principal Program Manager – Technical to own the Remitly Business disbursement program: the network capabilities, partnerships, and platform investments that enable Remitly to move money to and on behalf of businesses. The Global Network team is a fundamental driver of Remitly's ability to reach international customers and provide a diverse set of disbursement methods. From the quality of integrations, to a world class money transfer platform that disburses billions of dollars, to the customer-facing experiences we build, the Global Network team directly impacts the Remitly experience. In this role, you won't build the platform yourself — you will work cross-functionally with platform owners to influence what gets built to support your program.

As a Principal leader, you will define and drive the long-term vision and strategy for business disbursement at Remitly. This is a high-consequence, high-scale program: you will work with external partners, shape commercial terms, and drive the platform capabilities that make business payouts reliable, fast, and defensible. You will architect the future state of this program — scalable integration frameworks, reusable infrastructure, and differentiated capabilities that compound across markets — and you will use AI as a core working tool to get there, accelerating discovery, analysis, and execution well beyond what a single owner could traditionally deliver.

As the single threaded owner, you will identify bold, high-conviction bets that create durable competitive advantage. You will determine where to invest, where to standardize and platformize, and where to innovate — including where AI can unlock structural differentiation in speed, cost, coverage, and resiliency. You will balance immediate customer and commercial opportunities with foundational investments that compound over time, and you will be accountable for the program's vision, roadmap, and measurable outcomes.

You will report to the Director of Global Money Movement and drive outcomes through influence across engineering, platform, compliance, and business teams.

You Will:

• Own the end-to-end strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes for Remitly's business disbursement program — and personally execute against it, from partner escalations to launch checklists
• Use AI tools as a force multiplier across your work — from analysis and technical discovery to program operations — and raise the bar for how the team applies AI to move faster with higher quality
• Work directly with external partners and represent the program with Business Development and business unit leadership, advocating at the VP level for the investments and commercial structures the program needs
• Develop a deep understanding of Remitly's services and platform architecture, evaluating how they interoperate with partner APIs and local payment rails to inform architecture decisions and scalable integration patterns
• Drive internal platform and engineering teams to build the features business disbursement requires, through clear requirements, structured problem solving, and strong technical judgment
• Identify and prioritize customer pain points, market shifts, and competitive opportunities to shape a differentiated and defensible program strategy
• Ground decisions in data — define the program's success metrics, run your own analyses to size opportunities and diagnose issues, and use the results to drive prioritization and investment tradeoffs
• Elevate product thinking within the team by fostering clarity of vision, customer obsession, and a high bar for scalable, platform oriented solutions

You Have:

• 10+ years of program management experience
• Proven experience defining and driving long term product or program vision and translating strategy into measurable business and customer outcomes
• Experience working directly with external partners — driving technical integrations and managing ongoing partner relationships — in collaboration with business development teams
• Strong technical fluency, with the ability to engage deeply in architecture discussions, reason about APIs and distributed systems, and make informed tradeoffs with engineering
• Experience owning a product or platform with clear accountability for performance metrics such as reliability, speed, cost, and growth
• Strong analytical skills: comfortable pulling and analyzing data yourself (e.g., SQL) to inform decisions, measure outcomes, and make the case for investments
• Demonstrated success influencing senior stakeholders — including VP-level executives — and aligning cross functional teams in ambiguous, high impact environments
• An operator's bias for action: you are as comfortable executing the work yourself — writing docs, testing integrations, chasing down blockers — as you are setting the strategy
• Strong product judgment, with the ability to balance short term results with foundational investments that create durable competitive advantage
• A track record of effectively applying AI tools to your own work — accelerating analysis, prototyping, and decision making — and of helping others do the same
• Experience in payments, remittance, financial infrastructure, or global network platforms strongly preferred

Compensation Details:

The starting base salary range for this position is typically $168,000-$210,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.

Our Benefits:

• Flexible paid time off
• Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
• Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
• Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
• Continuing education benefits

Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster.

Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly, we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates, in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.