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Senior Product Manager - Trading-as-a-service
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Senior Product Manager, Trading-as-a-Service
Building the Future of Open Finance
Payward, the parent company behind Kraken, NinjaTrader, Breakout, xStocks, Payward Services, and CF Benchmarks, has spent the last 15 years building one of the world’s most modern and globally accessible financial infrastructure platforms, designed to advance an open, interconnected financial system. The goal is to enable companies to integrate trading, payments, funding, and digital asset services through a unified platform, reducing operational complexity for financial institutions.
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About the Team
Payward Services is an enterprise infrastructure platform that enables fintechs, banks, brokerages, and payment providers to integrate trading, custody, compliance, and settlement services into their own applications. Within this team, Trading-as-a-Service is our product line, allowing partners to offer digital asset trading (spot, derivatives, tokenized equities, recurring buys, limit orders) without building the underlying exchange infrastructure.
Partners retain API access, allowing them to define their UIs and branding. Our role is to ensure execution, liquidity, and market connectivity—delivered through modular APIs that deploy rapidly (weeks, not quarters).
The Opportunity
As a Senior Product Manager (reported to the Trading GM), you will drive and shape Trading-as-a-Service. This is a builder-first, API-first role focused on ensuring the product excels in real-world deployments. You won’t carry a sales quota, but the products you ship directly impact Payward Services revenue.
Core Responsibilities
- Own the roadmap and execution across key trading surfaces:
- Convert & Trade
- PTL-as-a-Service (custodial & non-custodial)
- Orderbook/CLOB API
- Recurring Buys
- Limit Orders
- PTL + xStocks (tokenized equities)
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You’ll manage the full product lifecycle, from research and discovery to build, launch, and iteration.
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Partner engagement: Work with fintechs, banks, brokerages, and platforms to:
- Understand integration requirements
- Unblock deployments at scale
- Ensure product-market fit
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Define B2B2C product decisions in:
- Trading UX patterns
- API design (REST/WebSocket)
- Custody models
- Compliance workflows
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Treat the API as the product: Responsible for crafting:
- API surfaces (executing fast or painfully slow)
- Auth models
- Webhooks
- SDKs & documentation
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Make critical decisions on:
- Execution models (RFQ, internalized-spread, CLOB maker-taker)
- Custody structures (custodial vs. non-custodial)
- Account models (omnibus vs. disclosed, settlement formats)
- Regulations & compliance workflows
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Define and track key metrics:
- Partner integration velocity
- Trading volume
- Assets on Platform (AOP)
- End-user activation
- Revenue impact
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Collaborate with Derivatives on joint crypto derivatives capabilities.
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Partner with Sales & Business Development on high-value deals, including:
- Product demos
- Technical scoping
- Strategic integration planning
What You Bring
- 6+ years of product management with B2B2C financial infrastructure experience. Familiarity with platforms that enable trading, brokerage, or financial service integrations is ideal.
- API expertise: Adjudicated B2B/developer-facing APIs where partners build against your product. You should understand:
- API design pitfalls (authentication, sandbox environments, SDKs)
- Onboarding friction factors (multi-tenant architecture, developer experience)
- Hands-on trading exchange experience preferred— whether through exchange, brokerage, or-trading infrastructure background. Knowledge of:
- Order types
- Execution models
- Settlement mechanics
- Technical fluency: Capable of architecture discussions, making build vs. buy tradeoffs, and holding engineers accountable.
- Regulatory expertise: Experience in financial services compliance, across multiple jurisdictions.
- Product + commercial sense: You are profit-driven but focused on product, without needing sales quotas.
- Ambiguity tolerance: Thrives in dynamic, uncertain environments, makes decisions with limited information, and adapts as the business scales.
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Our Commitment to Inclusivity
We diversity at Payward because varied perspectives improve our products, teams, and outcomes. We don’t review candidates based solely on bullet points—passion for crypto is just as valued as rigidly meeting all stated requirements.
Payward is a global, diverse team, welcoming applicants from everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, disability, veteran status, or citizenship.
As an equal opportunity employer (US only), we don’t tolerate discrimination or harassment of any kind.
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