Product Manager, Payments Infrastructure

Who We Are
Yellow Card is the largest licensed Stablecoin-based infrastructure provider operating across over 60 countries. From Stablecoin payment infrastructure to fiat settlement rails, wallet services, and custom local Stablecoin issuance, Yellow Card provides the complete infrastructure businesses need to manage Stablecoins, payments, and operations across 50 emerging markets.
Yellow Card operates with a substantial global team spanning 24 countries. This workforce is characterized by its linguistic diversity, with collective speaking of over 25 languages, underscoring the company’s extensive international reach.
About the Role
The Product Manager, Payments Infrastructure, will be responsible for the underlying rails, systems, and integrations that move money through Yellow Card's platform. Working closely with the Payment Experience PM, who designs how customers interact with payments, you'll own the infrastructure that makes those experiences possible: settlement rails, ledger systems, banking and liquidity partner integrations, and multi-currency processing at scale.
You will be the voice of reliability, scalability, and correctness for every payment that moves through Yellow Card. You'll own how transactions are processed, settled, and reconciled under the hood — from initiation through to funds landing in the right place, in the right currency, on time. Your focus is ensuring the payment infrastructure is resilient, fast, and able to scale across Yellow Card's markets and multiple banking and Stablecoin rails.
As the subject matter expert for payments infrastructure, you'll work closely with engineering on system architecture trade-offs, partner with Compliance and Treasury on regulatory and liquidity requirements, and represent infrastructure capabilities and constraints to the rest of Product. This role requires deep technical fluency in payments systems, strong engineering collaboration skills, and the ability to make sound trade-offs between speed, cost, and reliability.
What You’ll Do
Duties include, but are not limited to:
Payments Infrastructure Roadmap
Own the technical roadmap for core payment processing infrastructure: rails, ledger, settlement engine, and currency conversion
Own the execution of the Virtual accounts strategy for the organization
Partner with the Payment Experience PM to translate infrastructure capabilities into customer-facing features, and to surface upcoming experience needs back into the infrastructure roadmap
Evaluate and prioritize new banking, liquidity, and Stablecoin rail integrations based on cost, speed, and market coverage
Define infrastructure investment priorities: where to build for scale now versus later
Core Payment Systems
Own the ledger and transaction processing systems that record and reconcile every payment
Own settlement logic across banking partners, liquidity providers, and Stablecoin rails (USDC, USDT, PYUSD)
Own multi-currency conversion and routing logic, including selecting the optimal rail per transaction
Own Virtual IBAN infrastructure and other virtual account capabilities that underpin customer-facing payment features
Partner with engineering on system architecture decisions: consistency, idempotency, failure handling, and reconciliation
Partner & Compliance Integration
Work with Treasury on liquidity requirements and how they shape infrastructure design (funding models, corridor coverage)
Work with Compliance to ensure regulatory and licensing requirements are built into infrastructure by design across every market, not bolted on afterward
Manage the roadmap for onboarding new banking and liquidity partners into the payment stack
Reliability, Scalability & Metrics
Define and track infrastructure health metrics:
Transaction success rate and settlement time, by rail and corridor
System uptime and reconciliation accuracy
Error rates and incident frequency/severity
Partner with engineering on capacity planning and incident response for payment systems
Continuously identify and prioritize technical debt that puts reliability or scale at risk
Internal Education & Enablement
Document infrastructure capabilities and constraints for other Product, Engineering, and GTM teams
Maintain an internal knowledge base of rail coverage, corridor-specific quirks, and partner integration details
Act as the go-to technical resource when other teams need to understand what the payments infrastructure can and can't do
What You’ll Bring
5+ years of Product experience, with at least 3 years working on payments infrastructure, rails, ledgers, or core banking/transaction systems in fintech or crypto
Strong technical fluency — comfortable in detailed architecture discussions with engineering (APIs, distributed systems, data consistency trade-offs)
Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Product, or a related field
Fluency in English, both written and verbal
Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and across different time zones
Ability to meet deadlines and deliver results under pressure
Experience with Stablecoin or crypto settlement rails is a plus
Experience with banking

Employment type
Full-Time

Work arrangement
Yes