Group Product Manager - Flexible Payments

Description

As a Group Product Manager on the Core Platform - Flexible Payments team, you will own the strategy and execution for our next-generation flex cards powered by Flexible credentials technologies, accelerating Marqeta’s business growth and extending our competitive lead in the space. You will set the multi-year vision, own the portfolio’s business outcomes, and shape how flexible credentials are built, priced, and taken to market with customers, card networks, and partners.

We are looking for a product leader who excels in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and thrives on collaboration with customers and partners. This is an individual contributor role today, with the potential to build and lead a team of product managers as the business grows.

The Flexible Payments team is revolutionizing global embedded finance, enabling seamless integration of financial products into business platforms. We provide instant card issuance, commercialization of flexible credentials technology, and incubate new solutions based on emerging technologies like: Stablecoin payments, making financial services more accessible and scalable. As builders and innovators, we thrive on making an impact and pushing fintech boundaries.

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

The Impact You’ll Have

Own Strategy & Growth – Define the multi-year vision and roadmap for the next-gen flex cards, and own the portfolio’s business growth related goals

Drive Product Monetization – Collaborate with pricing, and commercialization teams and drive monetization strategy with a deep understanding of Card interchange, network fees, funding-source costs, and program economics

Lead Execution at Scale – Lead multiple engineering squads and complex, cross-functional programs from discovery to launch and adoption across the full card payments lifecycle

Partner with the Ecosystem – Build strategic relationships with card networks, banks, fintechs, and key customers, and co-develop new programs that influence industry direction

Anticipate the Market – Track global fintech innovation (stablecoins, embedded finance, agentic payments) and turn it into differentiated product bets and investment cases

Prioritize with Data – Use analytics, customer insight, and financial models to make tradeoffs across competing priorities and make the case for investment to executives

Influence cross-functional stakeholders – Align engineering, design, data, legal, compliance, risk, finance, and go-to-market teams, and mentor PMs across the organization

Requirements

• 10+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years at a senior or group level owning a portfolio or multiple product lines with measurable business results
• Hands-on experience with card issuance platforms, with a deep understanding of card economics and the full card payments lifecycle (provisioning, authorization, clearing, settlement, disputes)
• Strong awareness of global fintech innovation, including embedded finance, BaaS, stablecoins, tokenization, and digital wallets
• Proven track record taking complex, ambiguous products from strategy to scale in an API-first, high-growth environment
• Strong technical acumen and the ability to work closely with engineering teams on API-driven products
• Strong financial and analytical skills, with the ability to build business cases and present to executives
• Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills with both internal teams and external partners
• Nice-To-Haves
• Experience with flexible credentials based products, multi-funding-source cards, or related card network programs
• Familiarity with network standards and regulatory frameworks (ISO 8583, EMV, sponsor bank models, stablecoin regulation)
• Your Manager
• Rasik Krishna - Senior Director, Product Management
• Recruiter For This Role
• Prashant S.
• Typical Process
• Application Submission
• Recruiter phone call
• Hiring manager video call
• Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4, 45 min calls
• Working session with a live JAM on a defined prompt
• Offer!

Conditions

Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States:

National: A baseline tier that applies to most of the geographic territory of the United States.

Premium: Slightly elevated from the National tier, and oriented toward a narrower set of higher cost-of-living areas, such as Los Angeles CA and Seattle WA

Premium Plus: A tier for the most expensive working areas, like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City.

Visit this page or consult with a Recruiter to determine which tier would be applicable to you.

When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salary range for this position is:

National : 174,700 - 218,400

Premium : 189,000 - 236,300

Premium Plus : 205,500 - 256,900

We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That's why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company.

Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers

Multiple health insurance options

Flexible time off – take what you need

Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions

Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program

Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave

Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice

Monthly stipend to support our remote work model

Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development

Through Flex First, the freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive

About Marqeta

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). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.

Marqeta’s Values

Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers' business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.

Do What's Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.

Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.

Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.

Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.