Product Manager, Platform

Astra FI
United States
Workplace: RemoteFull timeUSD 160,000 - 220,000 annuallyFunction: Product ManagementExperience: 6+ yearsSkills: ["Written communication","Influencing without authority","Systems thinking","Platform thinking","Stakeholder collaboration"]

Drive the evolution of Astra’s platform layer—APIs, control plane, and developer experience—so customers can build reliable, compliant payment workflows. Own API contract philosophy, platform specs, and roadmap tradeoffs across authentication, configuration, extensibility, observability, and reliability/SLA products. Partner with engineering, solutions, and go-to-market via technical discovery and customer-facing conversations to close platform gaps and improve time-to-first-transaction.

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Astra FI
Astra FI
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Product Manager, Platform

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Job Summary

Drive the evolution of Astra’s platform layer—APIs, control plane, and developer experience—so customers can build reliable, compliant payment workflows. Own API contract philosophy, platform specs, and roadmap tradeoffs across authentication, configuration, extensibility, observability, and reliability/SLA products. Partner with engineering, solutions, and go-to-market via technical discovery and customer-facing conversations to close platform gaps and improve time-to-first-transaction.
Location: United States
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Product Management
Seniority: Mid level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Define and maintain Astra’s API contract philosophy, including versioning strategy, backwards compatibility, deprecation policies, and schema design principles
  • •Write detailed platform specs engineering can ship from, covering precise edge cases and real customer workflows
  • •Shape the platform roadmap by balancing foundational investments (auth, observability, extensibility) against customer-facing features and reliability work
  • •Lead technical discovery with sophisticated customers to identify platform gaps and extensibility needs
  • •Partner with engineering and go-to-market to maintain developer ergonomics and drive improvements to developer experience, docs/SDKs, and onboarding
Travel: Low travel

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 160,000 - 220,000 annually
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Remote Work

Key Requirements

  • •6+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years building developer-facing platform or API products at a technical infrastructure company
  • •Deep expertise in API design (REST, webhooks, event-driven architecture) and strong opinions about what makes a platform build-on great
  • •Experience owning a platform roadmap across authentication, configuration, extensibility, and observability layers
  • •Comfort reasoning about systems-level tradeoffs (latency vs. consistency, configurability vs. complexity, generality vs. opinionation)
  • •Track record operating as a principal-level IC—setting direction, influencing without authority, and driving outcomes across engineering and go-to-market
Experience:6+ yearsDeveloper-facing platformsAPI productsTechnical infrastructurePayments infrastructureBaaSDeveloper tools
Skills:Written communicationInfluencing without authoritySystems thinkingPlatform thinkingStakeholder collaboration
Tech Stack:RESTWebhooksEvent-driven architecture

Company Brief

Astra FI
Provides an API-first instant payments platform that enables developers and businesses to embed fast, secure bank-to-card and bank-to-bank transfers, payouts, and account funding into their products.
Industry: Fintech Infrastructure
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Funding: Series A
Headquarters: Menlo Park, United States
Founded: 2016
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