Senior Product Manager, Marqeta
SDK's, Developer Platform & Documentation
CA$108-135k
+ Annual Bonus + Equity
Modern payment & card issuing solutions
Be an early applicant
Modern payment & card issuing solutions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
CA$108-135k
+ Annual Bonus + Equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To be the global standard for modern card issuing, empowering builders to bring the most innovative products to the world.
Role
Who you are
- 5-8+ years building products developers love — proven track record shipping SDKs, APIs, or developer platforms that scale and delight technical audiences
- Deep technical fluency across modern ecosystems — strong working knowledge of mobile (iOS/Android), web frameworks, and API-first architectures that power today's digital experiences
- SDK and API expertise — hands-on experience with SDK architecture, lifecycle management, and crafting intuitive APIs that developers actually want to integrate
- Developer experience obsessed — proven ability to improve onboarding flows, enhance API usability, and create documentation that turns complexity into clarity
- External developer engagement — experience building for and collaborating with external developer communities, including partnerships with DevRel teams to drive adoption and advocacy
- Data-driven platform growth — track record scaling developer platforms using metrics that matter: adoption rates, time-to-first-hello-world, API error rates, and developer satisfaction
- Fintech or infrastructure platform experience — bonus points for payments expertise (mobile wallets like Apple Pay/Google Pay) or building mission-critical infrastructure that powers other products
- Innovation mindset — experience applying AI/automation to streamline developer workflows, reduce friction, and unlock new capabilities that weren't possible before
Desirable
- Owned end-to-end developer journeys
- Experience with design systems tied to SDKs
- Experience driving platform standardization
- Experience with developer observability/debugging tools
- Experience across enterprise and self-serve developers
- Track record improving time-to-first-call or time-to-production
What the job involves
- Marqeta is seeking a Senior Product Manager for SDKs, Developer Platform & Documentation to lead the strategy and evolution of the developer platform that powers how customers build on Marqeta
- You will own the end-to-end developer experience across Mobile and Web SDKs, APIs, and documentation, ensuring developers can easily discover, integrate, test, and scale financial capabilities
- Your scope includes iOS, Android, and Web SDKs; API platforms; developer tooling; authentication and identity; developer portals; onboarding flows; sandbox environments; and documentation systems
- You’ll partner closely with Engineering, Developer Relations, Documentation, Security, Design, and Solutions Engineering, as well as directly with customers, to deliver a platform that is intuitive, reliable, and scalable
- This role requires strong technical fluency and product judgment to improve developer experience, reduce integration time, and drive platform adoption
- The developer platform is how Marqeta scales
- SDKs, APIs, and documentation determine how quickly customers build and launch
- Strong developer experience reduces integration time, increases adoption, and drives growth
- This role removes friction, accelerates time-to-production, and makes Marqeta the platform developers choose first
- You will define how developers build financial products on Marqeta across mobile and web
- Own the roadmap for Mobile and Web SDKs (iOS, Android, Web), including scalability, performance, and usability
- Lead developer documentation strategy across API references, guides, and onboarding experiences
- Improve developer onboarding, API usability, and integration workflows
- Partner with engineering on SDK lifecycle management (releases, versioning, compatibility, performance, security)
- Build tooling and environments (sandbox, testing, debugging) to accelerate integration and developer productivity
- Drive SDK and platform adoption by reducing complexity and improving developer experience
- Enable modern payment experiences, including mobile wallet integrations (Apple Pay, Google Pay)
- Collaborate across Developer Relations, Documentation, Support, and Solutions Engineering
- Leverage AI to improve developer workflows (documentation generation, troubleshooting, API discovery, code examples)
Our take
Marqeta processes payments quickly, offering businesses a more straightforward way to take customer payments with its physical and virtual card solutions. The company has a string of major companies utilizing its flexible and scalable platform, including Uber, Doordash and Square.
The company is rapidly expanding in Europe, with strong growth in processing volumes and new partnerships, including major collaborations with firms like Trade Republic. It also partnered with Visa and Affirm to introduce the Visa Flexible Credential, allowing users to access multiple payment methods on one card.
With a focus on global growth and delivering innovative financial services, Marqeta is targeting new verticals and supporting underbanked businesses. With this aim, the company is on its way to deepening its impact in the fintech space and driving further innovation in payments.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
May 2020
$150m
LATE VC
May 2019
$250m
SERIES E
Total funding: $542.5m
Company benefits
- Praise: We believe in generously recognizing each other’s talents and contributions, and sharing the goodness we see
- Health and wellness: We cover your premiums for health, dental, and vision. Plus, your pet gets his/her/its own insurance, on us
- Flexible time off: We take time to relax and recharge when needed. We have unlimited time off for most employees and encourage an average of 5 weeks per year
- Marqeta paid family leave: We support all families. We offer 12 weeks of paid leave for all new parents and up to 20 for birthing parents. We also offer 4 weeks of caregiving leave
- 401k match: We invest in your future. We’ll match 50% of your contribution and up to 6% of your salary
- Meaningful equity: As owners of the company, we’re all in this together. Full-time employees will receive equity in Marqeta
- Giving back: We recognize we’re part of a larger community and encourage employees to donate their time and expertise to organizations they support
- Monthly stipend: You’ll get an additional monthly stipend on your paycheck to help fund your daily commute, cell phone, and/or internet connectivity
- Stock discount: The Employee Stock Purchase Program allows employees to buy discounted company stock
Company HQ
Northgate - Waverly, Oakland, CA
Leadership
Jason Gardner
(Founder & Board Member)Having studied at Arizona State University, worked in Management for Benettar Marble & Granite, NetManage and Gartner Group. Then founded PropertyBridge and spent 2 years at MoneyGram before founding Marqeta as CEO in 2010.
Mike Milotich
(CEO)Spent a decade at VISA, ultimately serving as SVP (Head of Corporate Finance and Investor Relations). Was also Commercial Analytics Lead for PayPal and a Senior Financial Analyst at Barclays Global Investors.
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