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As our reach expands, we are building for a step-change in scale, and for opportunities ranging from more relevant rewards and marketer intelligence to new commerce and distribution models.\nAbout the Role\nAs Staff Product Manager, Data & Platform, you will be the product lead for two established teams: Data, spanning ML, data science, analytics, and data engineering; and Engineering Enablement, which owns Kard’s internal developer platform and the infrastructure that moves data and supports reliable, real-time decisioning at scale. Together, these teams provide the intelligence and delivery foundations for Kard’s customer products.\nThis is one of Kard’s most senior individual-contributor roles. 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