Senior Product Manager - Payments Platform

About this role

Building the Future of Open Finance Payward - the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks - has spent the last 15 years building one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, built to advance an open, global financial system. Before you apply, we encourage you to explore our culture page to understand what drives us and how we work.

The team Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables companies to seamlessly integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a single unified system. It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers. Payward's Payments & Blockchain team owns the first and last mile of every dollar that moves in or out of its products.

That means dozens of banking partners, PSPs and local rails powering deposits and withdrawals for millions of users. The team is looking for a product manager to shape the future of this platform, from the architecture underneath to the API layer internal clients build on. At the center is Payward's in-house PSP: a scalable, multi-tenant payments backend with hosted pages, SDKs, embedded components and direct APIs, so any Payward business can plug in and reach pay-in and payout rails worldwide.

The opportunity 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 What you bring 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.