Senior Product Manager, Core APIs

Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time.   Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). Today nearly 8 out of 10 Americans use a product powered by Marqeta every week. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

As a Senior Product Manager in the Customer Experience Product Group, you will be responsible for helping scale Marqeta’s core APIs. You will build integrated and seamless solutions that empower our customers to leverage Marqeta’s platform to scale their card programs. This will include activities to own, manage, and evolve core APIs for cards and customers, and accounts. As a key advocate for your product area, you will lead & bring to fruition new initiatives by collaborating extensively with customers, partners, internal Marqeta teams, and 3rd party vendors.

We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remote within the United States or from our Oakland, CA headquarters. We’d love for you to join us!

What You’ll Do

• Partner with a dedicated engineering lead to define technological design and scope including architecture, APIs, data models, migrations and integrations.
• Influence and inspire a cross-functional team to reach ambitious goals. 
• Evangelize adoption of shared infrastructure across product management and engineering organizations.
• Investigate complex problems and design simple solutions for them.
• Question assumptions, validate hypotheses, and define and measure key metrics for success.
• Writing and consulting on specs, managing design challenges, and taking the lead for promoting interoperability and scale.
• Deliver customer value iteratively, managing products through various launch phases and follow-on releases, while ensuring all product details are correct and shipped on time.

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years of experience as a Product Manager working on shipping technically complex products and/or platforms.
• Strong payments background with debit car processing or debit card profile knowledge.
• Experience working directly with engineering teams with a clear understanding of their tradeoffs.
• Excellent technical acumen, curiosity, and familiarity with new technologies, APIs, programming languages, and databases.
• Deep customer empathy and experience shaping product direction and execution.
• A Clear communicator, active listener, and cross-organizational relationship builder who can drive for results cross-functionally and influence others within the company.
• Define and translate a vision into detailed and actionable plans
• You have a bias towards action, are intellectually curious, execute efficiently, and are relentlessly resourceful

Nice-To-Haves

• Experience building infrastructure, APIs, tooling within a growth-startup environment.
• STEM or business undergraduate. MBA, MS or equivalent a plus. 
• Fintech experience is a plus.
• Experience building self-service products

Manager

• Sahitya Kakarla

Your Team

• Taylor Zhao
• Chris Marconi

Recruiter For This Role

• Ramy Khalil

Typical Process

• Application submission
• Recruiter phone call
• Hiring manager video call
• Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
• Offer!

Compensation and Benefits

• Flexible time off – take what you need
• Retirement savings program with company contribution
• Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
• Health insurance premiums paid 100% + coverage for dependents and pets
• Family-forming benefits including fertility support and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
• Free therapy sessions, financial coaching, and legal advice
• Monthly stipend to support our hybrid work model 

Sponsorship

• We do not currently support any new sponsorship opportunities but do support sponsorship transfers for this role

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