Product Lead, Platform
AstraLaunch Services, company
RemoteLead
BlackRock
Canaan
Marc Benioff
SherpaVentures Fund II, LP
Product
About the role
TL;DR
Define and maintain Astra's platform architecture and roadmap.
- •We're looking for a Staff-level Product Lead to own 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.
- •Key Responsibilities 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 Own the platform roadmap
- •balancing foundational investments (auth, observability, extensibility) against customer-facing features and reliability work Requirements 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
Required skills
Product ManagementRoadmappingTechnical LeadershipEngineering ManagementAgile
Domain expertise
fintech
Benefits & perks
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