Own the product vision and roadmap for Payward's payments platform, shaping its architecture and client integrations.
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Skills & Technologies
What you'll build
- Own the product vision and roadmap for the payments platform
- Map requirements across internal clients
- Partner with engineering to create a high-impact roadmap
- Shape the client experience from first conversation to go-live
- Set and track platform success metrics
Must have
- 5+ years of product management experience
- Working knowledge of payments
- Strong technical fluency
- Experience shipping developer-facing products
- Clear, structured writing
- Skill at managing many stakeholders
Nice to have
- Experience at a PSP or payments infrastructure company
- Background with multi-tenant SaaS or B2B2C platforms
- Familiarity with crypto or stablecoins
- Experience working across multiple regulated legal entities
Requirements
- Experience
- 5+ years
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, work arrangement, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
The Senior Product Manager for the Payments Platform at Payward is responsible for defining the product vision and roadmap, focusing on both the backend architecture and the integration surfaces for internal clients. This role requires a strong understanding of payment systems, APIs, and technical fluency to collaborate effectively with engineering teams. Ideal candidates have over five years of product management experience, particularly in platform or infrastructure roles, and are adept at managing diverse stakeholder needs. The position is situated within a team that emphasizes seamless integration and operational efficiency across various financial services.
Joblaze insights
- Listed today — first seen on Joblaze October 6, 2026. Last confirmed on Kraken's careers page October 6, 2026.
- This exact title is also open at 1 other location at Kraken: United States.
Quick facts
- How much experience is required?
- At least 5 years of relevant experience for this Senior Product Manager - Payments Platform role.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: API, Compliance, Payments, Risk Management, SDK.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Kraken targets senior candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Senior Product Manager - Payments Platform role at Kraken.
From the original posting
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. 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
Nice to haves
Experience at a PSP, payment orchestrator or payments infrastructure company, or building one in-house
Background with multi-tenant SaaS or B2B2C platforms
Familiarity with crypto, stablecoins or on/off-ramps
Experience working across multiple regulated legal entities or licensing regimes
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