Senior Product Manager Payments Platform
Payward, Inc. is the parent company and operating platform behind Kraken and a portfolio spanning trading, custody, payments, lending, tokenized assets, onchain finance, and benchmarks.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Payward, Inc.
Payward operates unified financial infrastructure across crypto and traditional markets, including shared liquidity, risk and margin systems, collateral and settlement, compliance, and licensing. Its first-party portfolio includes Kraken, Kraken Pro, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, CF Benchmarks, Reap, Krak, Kraken Prime, Kraken OTC, Kraken Custody, and Bitnomial.
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About the Role
You will own the vision and roadmap for a payments platform and its developer-facing integration surfaces. You will translate client requirements into priorities, partner with engineering and banking teams, incorporate compliance needs, improve adoption, and track platform performance.
Requirements
- 5+ years of product management experience
- Experience with platform, API, or infrastructure products
- Knowledge of payments, pay-ins, payouts, PSPs, acquirers, and bank rails
- Technical fluency with RFCs, architecture decisions, and API specifications
- Experience shipping APIs, SDKs, or embeddable UI components
- Structured technical writing
- Stakeholder management
- Data analysis for product goals and performance
Responsibilities
- Own the payments platform vision and roadmap
- Map internal client requirements and evolve platform capabilities
- Partner with engineering on a sequenced roadmap
- Prioritize competing client needs and explain trade-offs
- Improve the client adoption experience from initial conversation to go-live
- Coordinate bank and PSP integrations for platform-wide reuse
- Incorporate compliance, risk, and legal requirements into the roadmap
- Set and track platform adoption and payment performance metrics
