Staff Product Manager, Data – Platform

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Develop and articulate a clear strategy for Kard’s data and platform capabilities.

• Transform company objectives into targeted initiatives that balance new product development with platform optimization.

• Lead collaborative efforts with engineering, data, and business partners through Kard’s Shape Up process.

• Define outcomes, risk appetite, evidence, and success metrics.

• Leverage transaction data, machine learning, and platform capabilities to create consumer, merchant, and location intelligence products and business opportunities.

• Enhance personalization, merchant and location insight, contextual decision-making, experimentation, and performance measurement across both batch and real-time systems.

• Establish reusable capabilities for offer decision-making, delivery, matching, measurement, and partner integrations.

• Collaborate with customer-facing product managers to define products and ensure end-to-end outcomes.

• Approach data and developer platforms as products by enhancing self-service, minimizing friction, and evaluating business impact, quality, trust, reliability, and speed.

• Mentor others and improve the overall quality of product thinking.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven experience in leading technically complex data, machine learning, or platform products across diverse teams.

• Demonstrated ability to convert data or foundational technology into quantifiable customer and commercial value.

• Proficiency in data platforms, quality and governance, machine learning lifecycles, batch and real-time serving, APIs, cloud infrastructure, and developer platforms.

• Expertise in experimentation and measurement, including A/B testing, lift or incrementality, in collaboration with data scientists.

• Strong skills in discovery and shaping with both technical users and business stakeholders.

• Capability to validate needs directly with external customers.

• Understanding of marketplace economics and marketing outcomes.

• Ability to influence and provide sound judgment to align executives, leaders, and team members; challenge assumptions in a constructive manner; clarify trade-offs; and commit to a unified direction.

• Entrepreneurial mindset and thoughtful consideration regarding scale, security, privacy, and compliance.

• Dedication to promoting an inclusive work environment and contributing to team development and cohesion.

• Availability during U.S. core business hours and willingness to travel for company meetings.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible PTO, with a minimum requirement of one day off per quarter, totaling ten days a year, to support mental well-being.

• Observance of 11 Federal Holidays, in addition to one extra day each for Black Friday and Christmas Eve (for U.S. employees only).

• Comprehensive Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance.

• 401k program with employer matching (for U.S. employees only).

• Reimbursement for coworking space and work-from-home setup.

• Participation in company offsites for planning, team-building, and networking opportunities.

• A remote-first team structure that allows individuals to influence the company's trajectory.