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It provides coordinated liquidity, custody, compliance, risk management, and settlement capabilities, reducing operational complexity for fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers.\nPayward'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.\nThe 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.\nThe opportunity\nOwn 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)\n\nMap requirements across internal clients and use them to evolve the platform's vision and capabilities so it serves a growing range of use cases\n\nPartner with engineering to turn the target vision into a sequenced, high-impact roadmap, with milestones every client team can plan against\n\nPrioritize across competing client needs, make the trade-offs visible, and say no with a clear rationale\n\nShape the client experience end to end, from first conversation to go-live, so teams can adopt the platform without heavy hand-holding\n\nWork with the banking and partnerships teams so each new PSP or bank integration is built once on the platform and reaches every Payward business\n\nBring compliance, risk and legal requirements across Payward's entities and jurisdictions into the roadmap early, before they become launch blockers\n\nSet 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\n\nWhat you bring\n5+ years of product management experience, ideally in a platform, API or infrastructure role where your customers were other internal teams or developers\n\nWorking 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\n\nStrong technical fluency. You can read an RFC, challenge an architecture decision, and write an API spec that engineers respect\n\nExperience shipping developer-facing products such as APIs, SDKs, or embeddable UI components\n\nClear, structured writing. You turn complex system designs into docs that product, compliance and business stakeholders can all act on\n\nSkill at managing many stakeholders with different priorities, and building alignment without direct authority\n\nComfort working with data to set goals and measure platform adoption and performance\n\nNice to haves\nExperience at a PSP, payment orchestrator or payments infrastructure company, or building one in-house\n\nBackground with multi-tenant SaaS or B2B2C platforms\n\nFamiliarity with crypto, stablecoins or on/off-ramps\n\nExperience working across multiple regulated legal entities or licensing regimes\n\nUnless a specific application deadline is stated in the job posting, applications are accepted on an ongoing basis.\nPlease note, applicants are permitted to redact or remove information on their resume that identifies age, date of birth, or dates of attendance at or graduation from an educational institution.\nWe consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.\nOur commitment\nPayward is powered by people from around the world and we celebrate the diverse talents, backgrounds, contributions, and unique perspectives that everyone brings to the table. We hire based on merit, seeking out people with the right abilities, knowledge, and skills for the job. We encourage you to apply for roles where you don't fully meet the listed requirements, especially if you're passionate or knowledgeable about crypto.\nWe may ask candidates to complete job-related skills or work-style assessments as part of our hiring process. These assessments evaluate competencies relevant to the role and are applied consistently across candidates for similar positions. 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