Senior Product Manager - Payments Platform

As a Senior Product Manager for the Payments Platform at Payward, you own the product vision and roadmap for a unified enterprise infrastructure platform serving internal teams across Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and other Payward entities. You shape both the shared payments backend (a scalable, multi-tenant PSP with hosted pages, SDKs, embedded components and direct APIs) and the integration surfaces that internal clients build on to reach pay-in and payout rails worldwide.

What you'll do

• 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 evolve the platform's vision and capabilities to serve 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 trade-offs visible, and communicate your rationale for saying no
• 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 to 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 that turns complex system designs into documentation 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 have

• 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

About Payward

Payward is the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services and CF Benchmarks. Over 15 years, the company has built one of the most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms in the industry, designed to advance an open, global financial system.