Associate Product Manager

Summary

The Cari Network is building a blockchain-based payment system for real-time movement of digital money across traditional finance and digital asset ecosystems. The Associate Product Manager will support end-to-end product execution for a platform being built from 0 to 1, including requirements definition, backlog management, user acceptance testing, data analysis, user research, partner documentation, and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Support requirements definition for key product areas in our platform, from problem definition through release
• Write PRDs, user stories, and acceptance criteria that Engineering can build from
• Maintain the backlog: keep tickets scoped, current, and correctly prioritized, and retire the ones that no longer reflect where the product is going
• Reconcile designs, requirements, and implementation against each other before and after build, and drive discrepancies to resolution
• Plan and run user acceptance testing, then track defects through to close
• Analyze product and usage data to support prioritization decisions, and bring the numbers rather than the argument
• Conduct user research and partner interviews to surface pain points and validate requirements
• Produce the documentation our partner banks depend on: integration guides, release notes, and test scenarios
• Build working relationships across internal Cari teams (Product, Engineering, Design, Operations, Compliance) to inform product design and ship features to market
• Help evaluate competitive landscape and emerging trends in digital payments and blockchain

Skills

• • 3+ years of full-time professional experience in a product management or comparable role
• • Exceptional writing. You take pride in producing clearly written, well-organized documents that communicate ideas in professional settings
• • Analytical fluency. You are comfortable aggregating and analyzing data, and you can defend a prioritization decision with it
• • Comfortable learning new product and collaboration tools quickly, such as Linear, Notion, and Figma
• • Strong written and verbal communications across technical and non-technical audiences
• • U.S.-based, with the ability to travel up to 10%
• • Authorized to work in the U.S
• • Bachelor's degree
• • Experience in a product-facing role: product management, product operations, business or product analysis, technical program management, engineering, or design
• • Experience in fintech, banking, or other regulated financial services environment
• • Familiarity with payment rails such as ACH, wires, RTP, or card networks
• • Experience developing, shipping, or designing API-first products
• • Experience at a pre-launch or early-stage company, where the process did not exist yet

Qualifications

Must Haves

• • 3+ years of full-time professional experience in a product management or comparable role
• • Exceptional writing. You take pride in producing clearly written, well-organized documents that communicate ideas in professional settings
• • Analytical fluency. You are comfortable aggregating and analyzing data, and you can defend a prioritization decision with it
• • Comfortable learning new product and collaboration tools quickly, such as Linear, Notion, and Figma
• • Strong written and verbal communications across technical and non-technical audiences
• • U.S.-based, with the ability to travel up to 10%
• • Authorized to work in the U.S
• • Bachelor's degree

Nice to Haves

• • Experience in a product-facing role: product management, product operations, business or product analysis, technical program management, engineering, or design
• • Experience in fintech, banking, or other regulated financial services environment
• • Familiarity with payment rails such as ACH, wires, RTP, or card networks
• • Experience developing, shipping, or designing API-first products
• • Experience at a pre-launch or early-stage company, where the process did not exist yet

Benefits

• Bonus and equity
• Full medical, vision, and dental benefits
• 401(k) with company matching
• Flexible PTO in a remote-first environment
• Direct mentorship from product and engineering leaders, and room to grow into a Product Manager role
• Opportunity to shape a market-defining protocol with an experienced founding team