Job description
As a Senior Product Manager on the Emerging Products team, we are looking for you to help drive the next generation of card issuance, payments, and lending products in the embedded finance space. You will own the strategy, execution, and go-to-market for our emerging product lines, working cross-functionally to launch and scale innovative financial solutions.
We’re looking for a product leader who excels in a fast-paced, high-growth environment. If you love collaborating with customers and partners, and are eager to build top-tier fintech products from the ground up and beyond, we’d love to chat!
The Emerging Products team is revolutionizing global embedded finance, enabling seamless integration of financial products into business platforms. We provide instant card issuance, lending, and payments, making financial services more accessible and scalable. As builders and innovators, we thrive on making an impact and pushing fintech boundaries. If you’re passionate about creating customer-centric, next-gen financial products, join us!
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remotely anywhere within the United States with a preference of being local to our headquarters in Oakland, CA or New York City Metro area. We’d love for you to join us!
The Impact You’ll Have
- Define & Drive Product Strategy – Own the roadmap for our new fintech products, aligning business goals with customer needs
- Build & Scale Embedded Finance Solutions – Develop innovative products in card issuance, payments, or lending, collaborating with engineering, design, and data teams
- Execute with Excellence – Work cross-functionally with design, engineering, data science, legal, compliance, and external partners to build, launch, and scale compliant financial products
- Customer & Market Research – Deeply understand customer pain points, industry trends, and competitive dynamics to shape product decisions
- Prioritize with Data – Leverage analytics, user insights, and industry trends to identify high-impact features, optimizations, and experiments
- Partner with Fintech Ecosystem – Work closely with banks, networks, and fintech partners to drive innovation and enhance our platform’s capabilities
Who You Are
- 5+ years of product management experience in fintech, embedded finance, payments, or lending
- Proven experience building and scaling financial products from 0 to 1 in a high-growth environment
- Strong technical acumen – ability to work closely with engineering teams and understand API-driven products
- Deep understanding of card issuance, payment processing, credit/lending, or banking-as-a-service (BaaS) models
- Ability to thrive in ambiguous, fast-paced environments, balancing strategic vision with execution
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a data-driven mindset
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills – ability to work with both internal teams and external partners
Nice-To-Haves
- Experience working with compliance, risk, and regulatory frameworks in fintech is a plus
- Hands-on experience in AdTech in creating solutions for demand and supply partners.
Your Manager
- Rasik Krishna - Senior Director, Product Management
Typical Process
- Application submission
- Recruiter phone call
- Hiring manager video call
- Virtual “Onsite” consisting of 4-5, 45 min calls
- Offer!
Compensation and Benefits
Marqeta is a Flex First company which allows you to choose your best working environment, whether that be from home or at a company office. To support Flex First, we calibrate pay to a competitive value according to working location. Compensation is aligned according to three tiers within the United States:
- National: A baseline tier that applies to most of the geographic territory of the United States.
- Premium: Slightly elevated from the National tier, and oriented toward a narrower set of higher cost-of-living areas, such as Los Angeles CA and Seattle WA
- Premium Plus: A tier for the most expensive working areas, like the San Francisco Bay area and New York City.
Visit this page or consult with a Recruiter to determine which tier would be applicable to you.
When determining salaries, we consider several factors including, but not limited to, skills, prior experience, and work location. The new-hire base salary range for this position is:
- National: $118,100 - $147,600
- Premium: $127,800 - $159,700
- Premium Plus: $138,900 - $173,600
We also believe in recognizing the contributions of our people. That’s why we award annual bonuses to eligible employees, rewarding both individual performance and the success of the entire company.
Along with monetary compensation, Marqeta offers
- Multiple health insurance options
- Flexible time off – take what you need
- Retirement savings program with company contribution and after tax contributions
- Equity in a publicly-traded company and an Employee Stock Purchase Program
- Family-forming benefits, fertility support, and up to 20 weeks of Parental Leave
- Free therapy sessions, financial and professional coaching, and legal advice
- Monthly stipend to support our remote work model
- Annual “development dollars” to support our people growth and development
About Marqeta
Marqeta is on a mission to change the way money moves. We’re one of the earliest enablers of embedded finance, a market opportunity sized up in the trillions. Our card issuing platform provides unprecedented flexibility and control for companies to issue cards, authorize transactions, and manage payment operations in real time. Marqeta is powering the most well known brands in the new economy (Block, Cash App, Affirm, Instacart, Doordash, Uber, Walmart, etc). You don’t need to be a Payments expert to join the Marqeta Team, let us help you with that. This is the opportunity of a lifetime to work with innovators around the world and unlock equitable financial access for all.
Marqeta’s Values
– Solve for the Customer: With a deep understanding of our customers’ business and empathy for their needs, we deliver products and services that drive their success. Earning and keeping their trust guides everything we do.
– Do What’s Right: Knowing businesses and livelihoods depend on us, we pursue solutions that disrupt responsibly and deliver high-quality results that our customers count on. We own our work from start to finish.
– Simplify and Innovate: We approach challenges with curiosity and take smart risks. Innovation comes from finding better, simpler ways to achieve extraordinary outcomes.
– Win as a Team: We succeed together by embracing diverse perspectives and pushing each other to raise the bar. We lead with humility and set aside hierarchy to work as a team.
– Make it Count: We drive forward with focus and agility. With a sense of urgency and purpose, we get the job done, and done right.
Equal Employment Opportunity, Accommodations and Privacy
Marqeta is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace that fosters belonging. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, lactation, childbirth, or related medical conditions), veteran status or uniformed service member status, age, national origin or ancestry, citizenship or immigration status, physical or mental disability, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements.
Marqeta endeavors to make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you are an individual with a disability and require a reasonable accommodation to submit this application, complete any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participate in the employee selection process, please submit this form with your specific accommodation request.
Personal data that is provided as part of the application and recruitment process is processed in accordance with the Applicant Privacy Notice. Additional information for California residents can be found here.
