Senior Product Manager – Agentic Payments

Rain

. Own Rain's Agent Control Layer, a developer-facing platform for safe agentic payments .

Posted 9/25/2026full-timeNew York City • New York • United StatesSenior💰 $200,000 - $250,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in product management for developer-facing platforms, with a strong focus on API design, payments infrastructure, and compliance. Proven ability to lead product development from concept to execution in fast-paced environments, emphasizing risk management and effective communication.

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Product ManagementAPI DesignPayments InfrastructureRisk ManagementStrong Writing Skills

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Hard Skills

API DevelopmentAuthorization FlowsKYC/KYB KnowledgePrototypingArchitecture ReviewsPayments FluencyChargebacksSettlementTechnical DepthAI Agent Deployment

Soft Skills

Judgment Under RiskBias For MotionCollaboration

Tools & Technologies

SDKsWebhooksSimulation ToolingSandbox Environments

Industry Keywords

FintechStablecoinCard NetworksIssuing ProcessorsSponsor Banks

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Own Rain's Agent Control Layer, a developer-facing platform for safe agentic payments
Define primitives for agent authority, including spend scopes, allowlists, velocity and amount ceilings, task-bound credentials, approvals, and revocation
Own scoped virtual cards for agents provisioned for a single merchant, amount, and task
Extend wallets, virtual accounts, onramps, offramps, cross-border payments, and related infrastructure to agent initiators
Own API endpoint design, error semantics, idempotency, webhooks, sandbox and simulation tooling, SDKs, and reference agents
Own documentation and onboarding, with time-to-first-authorized-agent-transaction as a key metric
Run design-partner feedback loops with agent builders and ship based on integration and debugging insights
Build and sequence the roadmap from first principles and discontinue ineffective initiatives quickly
Partner with risk and compliance on Know Your Agent, identity, attestation, delegated authority, auditability, and dispute handling
Represent Rain's technical perspective in Agentic Payments Alliance working groups and with Visa, Mastercard, and stablecoin partners
Write specifications, launch posts, and positioning explaining controlled agentic payments
Report to the Head of Product and collaborate with engineering, risk and compliance, network partnerships, and developers

Requirements

What you’ll need

8+ years in product management
Meaningful experience with a developer-facing platform, API, or infrastructure product
Experience shipping a product engineers chose to build on
Technical depth: ability to read API diffs, write queries, prototype against endpoints, and participate in architecture reviews
Experience taking a product from 0-to-1 to real usage in an ambiguous market
Payments or fintech fluency, or ability to acquire it quickly
Knowledge of authorization flows, issuing, interchange, chargebacks, settlement, and KYC/KYB, or ability to learn them quickly
Judgment under risk and ability to reason about capability-versus-loss tradeoffs
Strong writing skills for specs, documentation, and launch narratives
Bias for motion and ability to ship narrow products quickly
Experience building or deploying AI agents, including tool use, orchestration frameworks, MCP, or evals (bonus)
Stablecoin or onchain payments background (bonus)
Experience with card networks, issuing processors, or sponsor banks (bonus)
Early-stage company experience during fast scaling (bonus)
Ability to work in a hybrid role and come into a NYC office 3 days a week
Legal authorization to work in the United States for any employer without restrictions
Four-year university graduation

Benefits

Comp & perks

Unlimited time off; Rainmakers are required to take a minimum of 10 days for themselves
Flexible working; work from home, come into an office, or both
Stipend to set up a comfortable home workspace
For US Rainmakers, 95% coverage of health, dental, and vision plan costs and 90% for dependents
100% company-subsidized life insurance plan
401(k) with a 4% company match
Equity option plan
Monthly health and wellness stipend for eligible spending such as gym memberships, fitness classes, massages, and acupuncture
In-office lunch and dinner covered with a DoorDash credit
Domestic and international team and company offsites
Offers bonus compensation