Senior Product Manager – Payments Platform

Kraken Digital Asset Exchange

. Own the product vision and roadmap for the Payward payments platform, including the shared backend and hosted pages, SDKs, embedded components, and direct APIs .

Posted 10/5/2026full-timeRemote • United StatesSenior💰 $110,400 - $220,800 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product management for payment platforms, with a strong focus on integrating compliance and risk requirements while managing stakeholder relationships. Proficient in technical writing and data-driven decision-making to enhance platform performance and client experience.

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Product Management ExperiencePayments KnowledgeTechnical FluencyAPI DevelopmentStakeholder Management

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Hard Skills

Product VisionRoadmap DevelopmentTechnical WritingData AnalysisCompliance IntegrationRisk ManagementSDK DevelopmentAPI SpecificationPayments InfrastructureMulti-Tenant SaaS

Soft Skills

CollaborationAlignment BuildingClear CommunicationProblem SolvingAdaptability

Industry Keywords

PSPACHSEPAFaster PaymentsSWIFTB2B2CCryptoStablecoinsPayment OrchestratorRegulated Legal Entities

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

Swift

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own the product vision and roadmap for the Payward payments platform, including the shared backend and hosted pages, SDKs, embedded components, and direct APIs
Map requirements across internal clients and evolve the platform's vision and capabilities
Partner with engineering to create a sequenced, high-impact roadmap with milestones
Prioritize competing client needs, make trade-offs visible, and provide clear rationale
Shape the end-to-end client experience from initial conversation through go-live
Collaborate with banking and partnerships teams to build PSP and bank integrations once for all Payward businesses
Incorporate compliance, risk, and legal requirements across entities and jurisdictions into the roadmap
Set and track platform success metrics, including rail launch time, client go-live time, platform rail availability, and payment success rates
Support Payward Services, an enterprise infrastructure platform for trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of product management experience
Working knowledge of payments, including pay-ins, payouts, PSPs, acquirers, ACH, SEPA, Faster Payments, SWIFT, and local payment methods
Strong technical fluency, including reading RFCs, challenging architecture decisions, and writing API specifications
Experience shipping developer-facing products such as APIs, SDKs, or embeddable UI components
Clear, structured technical writing
Ability to manage multiple stakeholders and build alignment without direct authority
Comfort using data to set goals and measure platform adoption and performance
Nice to have: experience at a PSP, payment orchestrator, or payments infrastructure company
Nice to have: background with multi-tenant SaaS or B2B2C platforms
Nice to have: familiarity with crypto, stablecoins, or on/off-ramps
Nice to have: experience across multiple regulated legal entities or licensing regimes
Applicants may redact age, date of birth, or education attendance/graduation dates from resumes
Candidates may need to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments
Work location and sponsorship information required during application

Benefits

Comp & perks

Equity
Bonus program
Wellness allowance
Medical, dental, and vision benefits
401(k)
Equal opportunity employment
Job-related skills or work-style assessments applied consistently across candidates
Kraken product dogfooding once employed