Senior Product Manager, Kard
$130-160k
Reward infrastructure for card issuers
Job no longer available
Reward infrastructure for card issuers
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
$130-160k
21-100 employees
Company mission
To build the future of loyalty with a new reward as-a-service platform.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience working as a Product manager or similar role within a SaaS company
- Strong client management and communication skills
- Experience in the financial services / fintech space
- A desire to understand the Kard product in a nuanced way, connecting the technology to the end user
- Empathy for both our financial issuers and our merchants; we need both to deliver the best possible product
- Demonstrated ability to learn multiple functional areas of the business – engineering, design, finance, sales, and marketing
- Proven ability to engage with engineers, designers, and company leaders in a constructive and collaborative relationship
- Basic technical acumen; the ability to work with SQL, Postman, etc
- Experience with an API-driven product
- Experience launching a new product into the market
- Experience as a product manager of a data product(s)
What the job involves
- As a Senior Product Manager at Kard, you will be responsible for identifying key business problems and working across teams to identify solutions that our customers love
- Listening to our customers and internal stakeholders to proactively identify business problems
- Forming concrete opinions on business priorities and product strategy, using sound judgment to assess risks, and laying out your reasoning in a well-structured, data-informed, written narrative
- Owning the roadmap for at least one development team, building from the business objectives and engaging leadership to understand your reasoning
- Building product knowledge and excitement internally at Kard and externally with our clients, through product demos, presentations of the roadmap, and more
- Understanding the full dynamics of the business, from sales, marketing, finance, etc. in making informed decisions as you build product capabilities and processes
- Working closely with our engineering team to discuss solutions in a detailed manner, assessing the value and viability of multiple approaches to a business problem
- Collaborating with engineering to enhance and carry out best practices to scale efficient development, including day-to-day priorities, requirement and grooming meetings, and bug triage
- Mentoring junior product team members and building best practices for discovery and other product functions
- Developing and maintaining product documentation to help our users understand the product, provide seamless integrations, and emphasize the business value for each feature on our roadmap. This will be in tight coordination with our marketing team
Our take
Credit card rewards often play a vital role in attracting new customers to a particular card over its competitors. But for newer fintech companies, setting up an attractive rewards program can be burdensome, requiring the issuer to negotiate with individual retail partners and manage the complexities of integration on a case-by-case basis.
Kard's platform enables businesses to create their own loyalty and rewards programs that are tailored to their specific needs and goals. Unlike other rewards platforms, Kard enables issuers to build unique rewards and loyalty experiences, making it easy for new issuers to mix and match from Kard's offerings and integrate those rewards into their own interface.
Kard is the first rewards platform that provides services to the entire spectrum of card issuers, and due to its innovative approach to the market, it has seen steady growth since its launch in 2020. Alongside its growth, Kard has secured funding from several investment organisations, including Trinity Capital in 2025. It plans to use this funding to accelerate hiring efforts and expand into new markets.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2020
$6m
LATE VC
Feb 2019
$5.8m
LATE VC
Total funding: $24.4m
Company benefits
- Open PTO
- Health, Vision, Dental Insurance
- Automatic 401k Contributions
- Personal Development Budget
- Three Team Offsites per Year
- Coworking Space Reimbursment
Company HQ
Civic Center, New York, NY
Leadership
Ben Mackinnon
(Founder & CEO)Previously worked as an Enterprise Sales Director at WorkMarket and as an Associate Director at Changing Our World.
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