Product Manager (Platform)

Join Astra, a profitable Series A startup, as a Product Manager for our platform layer. In this role, you'll shape the architecture of how customers interact with Astra, drive the platform roadmap, and work closely with the Leadership Team, engineering, solutions, and go-to-market teams. You'll have a significant influence on product and engineering culture and the opportunity for professional growth in a collaborative and creative environment.

About Astra

• Conduire l'évolution de la couche de plateforme d'Astra, y compris les API, l'expérience développeur, le plan de contrôle et les produits d'infrastructure fondamentaux.
• Comfort reasoning about systems-level tradeoffs: latency vs. consistency, configurability vs. complexity, generality vs. opinionation

Responsibilities

• Collaborer directement avec l'équipe de direction et d'autres membres de l'équipe produit pour façonner l'architecture de l'interaction des clients avec Astra.
• Définir et maintenir la philosophie du contrat API d'Astra, y compris la stratégie de versioning, les normes de compatibilité ascendante et les politiques de dépréciation.
• 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

Requirements

• 6+ years of product management experience, with at least 3 years building developer-facing platform or API products at a technical infrastructure company
• Payments context is a plus, not a requirement – but intellectual curiosity about how money moves is required
• Exceptional written communication; you can produce a platform spec that is simultaneously a product document and a technical contract
• Experience owning a platform roadmap across authentication, configuration, extensibility, and observability layers
• Deep expertise in API design – REST, webhooks, event-driven architecture – and strong opinions about what makes a platform great to build on
• Track record of operating as a principal-level IC – setting direction, influencing without authority, and driving outcomes across engineering and go-to-market
• Strong understanding of how infrastructure companies create lock-in through developer experience, not just features
• Ability and willingness to travel up to ~15% annually
• 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)

Pay

USD 160,000 - 220,000