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Our platform processes billions in annual transaction volume with 99.9%+ uptime, powering real-time transfers, bank debits, card disbursements, and complex financial compliance systems. We provide APIs and automation tools that enable businesses to move money programmatically while maintaining strict regulatory requirements.\nThe Role\nWe're looking for a Product Manager to drive the evolution of Astra's platform layer - the APIs, developer experience, control plane, and foundational infrastructure products that sit above the rails and make Astra the Payments Cloud rather than just a payments gateway. This is an IC role with a broad scope: you'll help shape the architecture of how customers interact with Astra, how they configure and extend the platform, and how Astra scales to serve increasingly sophisticated builders.\nYou'll work directly with the Leadership Team and other Product Team members, and partner deeply with engineering, solutions, and go-to-market. The right person thinks like a platform architect, writes like an API designer, and ships like someone who has felt the consequences of a bad developer experience at 2am.\nWhere You'll Have Impact\nAstra's core API platform: authentication, versioning, pagination, rate limiting, error taxonomy, and the developer contracts that customers build on\n\nThe control plane product: configuration surfaces, rule engines, programmable routing logic, and the levers customers use to customize money movement behavior\n\nWebhook and event architecture: delivery guarantees, retry logic, event schema design, and the observability customers need to build reliable integrations\n\nDeveloper experience: documentation quality, SDK surface, sandbox fidelity, onboarding flows, and the time-to-first-transaction metric\n\nPlatform extensibility: how customers compose Astra's primitives - triggers, conditions, actions - to build complex payment workflows without custom engineering\n\nPlatform reliability and SLA products: how Astra communicates uptime, exposes status, and gives customers visibility into degradation\n\nLong-term platform strategy: how Astra evolves from a multi-rail API into a programmable payments infrastructure layer, including agentic payment use cases\n\nWhat You’ll Do Day-to-Day\nDefine and maintain Astra's API contract philosophy - versioning strategy, backwards compatibility standards, deprecation policies, and schema design principles\n\nWrite detailed platform specs that engineering can ship from: precise, edge-case-aware, and grounded in how real customers build\n\nShape the platform roadmap - balancing foundational investments (auth, observability, extensibility) against customer-facing features and reliability work\n\nConduct technical discovery with Astra's most sophisticated customers to identify platform gaps and extensibility needs\n\nPartner with engineering to review API design, maintain developer ergonomics standards, and hold the bar on platform quality\n\nWork with solutions and implementation teams to understand where customers get stuck, break, or build workarounds - and translate that into platform requirements\n\nDrive the developer experience roadmap in partnership with docs, solutions engineering, and DevRel functions as they mature\n\nRepresent platform strategy in customer conversations, partnership discussions, and technical due diligence processes\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nRequirements\n6+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years building developer-facing platform or API products at a technical infrastructure company\n\nDeep expertise in API design - REST, webhooks, event-driven architecture - and strong opinions about what makes a platform great to build on\n\nExperience owning a platform roadmap across authentication, configuration, extensibility, and observability layers\n\nStrong understanding of how infrastructure companies create lock-in through developer experience, not just features\n\nComfort reasoning about systems-level tradeoffs: latency vs. consistency, configurability vs. complexity, generality vs. opinionation\n\nTrack record of operating as a principal-level IC - setting direction, influencing without authority, and driving outcomes across engineering and go-to-market\n\nExceptional written communication; 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