Senior Product Manager, Open Finance Payments Platform

Kraken International; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kraken is seeking a Product Manager to shape the future of Payward's payments platform. You will own the product vision and roadmap for the backend and developer-facing surfaces, collaborating with engineering, banking partners, and internal clients to deliver scalable, compliant payment solutions.

You will translate complex requirements into actionable roadmaps, prioritize across stakeholders, and drive end-to-end client adoption from initial conversations to go-live.

Qualifications

• 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

Responsibilities

• Own the product vision and roadmap for the Payward payments platform, 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

Skills

Product management

Payments knowledge

Technical fluency

Developer-facing products

Writing skills

Stakeholder management

Data-driven

Tools

APIs

SDKs

Job description

Kraken is seeking a Product Manager to shape the future of Payward's payments platform. You will own the product vision and roadmap for the backend and developer-facing surfaces, collaborating with engineering, banking partners, and internal clients to deliver scalable, compliant payment solutions.

You will translate complex requirements into actionable roadmaps, prioritize across stakeholders, and drive end-to-end client adoption from initial conversations to go-live.