[Hiring] Product Manager @Astra

Role Description

We're looking for a Product Manager to drive the evolution of Astra's platform layer – the APIs, developer experience, control plane, and foundational infrastructure products that sit above the rails and make Astra the Payments Cloud rather than just a payments gateway. This is an IC role with a broad scope:

• Help shape the architecture of how customers interact with Astra.
• Assist in configuring and extending the platform.
• Scale Astra to serve increasingly sophisticated builders.

You'll work directly with the Leadership Team and other Product Team members, and partner deeply with engineering, solutions, and go-to-market. The right person thinks like a platform architect, writes like an API designer, and ships like someone who has felt the consequences of a bad developer experience at 2am.

Where You'll Have Impact

• Astra's core API platform: authentication, versioning, pagination, rate limiting, error taxonomy, and the developer contracts that customers build on.
• The control plane product: configuration surfaces, rule engines, programmable routing logic, and the levers customers use to customize money movement behavior.
• Webhook and event architecture: delivery guarantees, retry logic, event schema design, and the observability customers need to build reliable integrations.
• Developer experience: documentation quality, SDK surface, sandbox fidelity, onboarding flows, and the time-to-first-transaction metric.
• Platform extensibility: how customers compose Astra's primitives – triggers, conditions, actions – to build complex payment workflows without custom engineering.
• Platform reliability and SLA products: how Astra communicates uptime, exposes status, and gives customers visibility into degradation.
• Long-term platform strategy: how Astra evolves from a multi-rail API into a programmable payments infrastructure layer, including agentic payment use cases.

What You’ll Do Day-to-Day

• Define and maintain Astra's API contract philosophy – versioning strategy, backwards compatibility standards, deprecation policies, and schema design principles.
• Write detailed platform specs that engineering can ship from: precise, edge-case-aware, and grounded in how real customers build.
• Shape the platform roadmap – balancing foundational investments (auth, observability, extensibility) against customer-facing features and reliability work.
• Conduct technical discovery with Astra's most sophisticated customers to identify platform gaps and extensibility needs.
• Partner with engineering to review API design, maintain developer ergonomics standards, and hold the bar on platform quality.
• Work with solutions and implementation teams to understand where customers get stuck, break, or build workarounds – and translate that into platform requirements.
• Drive the developer experience roadmap in partnership with docs, solutions engineering, and DevRel functions as they mature.
• Represent platform strategy in customer conversations, partnership discussions, and technical due diligence processes.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of product management experience, with at least 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 great to build on.
• Experience owning a platform roadmap across authentication, configuration, extensibility, and observability layers.
• Strong understanding of how infrastructure companies create lock-in through developer experience, not just features.
• Comfort reasoning about systems-level tradeoffs: latency vs. consistency, configurability vs. complexity, generality vs. opinionation.
• Track record of operating as a principal-level IC – setting direction, influencing without authority, and driving outcomes across engineering and go-to-market.
• Exceptional written communication; you can produce a platform spec that is simultaneously a product document and a technical contract.
• Payments context is a plus, not a requirement – but intellectual curiosity about how money moves is required.
• Ability and willingness to travel up to ~15% annually.

Preferred Experience

• Experience building platform products at a BaaS, payments infrastructure, or developer tools company.
• Familiarity with the control plane / data plane architecture pattern as applied to developer platforms.
• Background in workflow or rules-engine product design – if-this-then-that style programmability at the infrastructure layer.
• Exposure to agentic AI use cases and how AI-native systems impose new requirements on payment infrastructure (context, controls, micropayment patterns).

What We Offer

• Competitive compensation with equity in a growing fintech company.
• Remote-first culture with flexible working arrangements.
• Small team, big impact — your work directly supports Astra’s ability to scale responsibly.
• Professional growth opportunities in compliance and risk management.
• Mission-driven — build infrastructure that powers financial innovation while meeting the highest regulatory standards.

Remote Work and Culture

Astra is a remote-first company hiring only within the U.S. We value thoughtful collaboration, clarity, and initiative. We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer and are committed to building a diverse and inclusive team.