At Verto, we're actively democratizing global finance, empowering businesses in Emerging Markets with seamless payment and liquidity solutions that have already led to billions in annual processing. Recognised as 'Fintech Start-Up of the Year' and a Milken-Motsepe Prize winner, we offer you the unique opportunity to join a rapidly growing, award-winning innovator where your work directly drives financial inclusion and global economic growth. Be part of a dynamic, world-class team that values impact, fosters continuous development, and champions an inclusive culture where your contributions truly matter.
We are looking for an API-first Product Manager with experience in developer-focused products to own the strategy and execution of our Payments for Platforms offering. Your mission will be to build a world-class, developer-centric product that enables SaaS companies, marketplaces, and other digital platforms to embed Verto's global payment and FX capabilities directly into their applications via our API. You will be responsible for the entire developer journey.
What You’ll Be Doing:Own the API Product Lifecycle: Drive the end-to-end lifecycle for our API-first products, from strategic planning and discovery to launch and iteration.
Champion Developer Experience (DX): Obsess over our API documentation, SDKs, sandbox environments, and developer onboarding process to ensure a seamless integration experience.
Engage with Partners: Work directly with the developer community and our platform partners to understand their needs, challenges, and use cases for embedded finance.
Define the Roadmap: Create and maintain the product roadmap, writing clear technical specifications, API contracts, and user stories for a developer audience.
Analyze Platform Metrics: Define and track key metrics (KPIs) such as API adoption rates, time-to-first-call, developer satisfaction, and transaction volume per partner.
Collaborate for Success: Work closely with engineering, design, compliance, sales, and go-to-market teams to build and launch a successful platform product.
Proven API/Platform PM Experience: A track record of shipping successful API-first or developer-focused B2B products.
Deep Domain Knowledge: A strong understanding of Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) or embedded finance concepts. You must be comfortable with API design principles (REST), webhooks, and the technical architecture of platform-based products.
Technical Acumen: You are not required to code, but you must be able to hold your own in technical discussions with engineers about API design and system architecture.
Developer Empathy: A genuine passion for understanding and solving problems for a developer audience.
Excellent Communication: The ability to communicate complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
Data-Driven Approach: Comfortable making decisions based on data in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment.
Regulatory Familiarity: Experience working in a regulated or compliance-heavy industry is a strong plus.
Competitive salary and equity package.
Opportunity to build a groundbreaking API-first product at a fast-growing FinTech.
Collaborative and dynamic team environment.
Opportunities for professional development and growth.
The chance to directly drive financial inclusion and global economic growth.
Step 1: Initial Call - A brief chat with our Talent Acquisition team to discuss your experience and interests.
Step 2: Hiring Manager Interview - Deeper dive into your skills and experience relevant to the role.
Step 3: Panel Interview - Present your case study to the team and discuss how you'd apply your approach to the role.
Step 4: Offer - We aim to make a decision quickly after the final interview.
Diversity & Inclusion at Verto:Verto is an equal opportunities employer and we value diversity. Anyone seeking employment at Verto is considered based on Merit, Competence, Qualifications and their Talent. We are proud to be a truly international team and we do not discriminate in our hiring process.
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What We Do
Verto is a global B2B payments solution that helps businesses send money to anyone, anywhere. Using a purposefully built tech infrastructure and payment rails, you can instantly send and receive money in over 200 countries. Today, Verto helps 1000+ customers from startups, SMEs to large corporate companies convert millions of dollars per year.
Using our liquidity and price discovery marketplace solution, new customers can convert between 49 currencies, open bank account or wallets in seconds and make payments on a single platform.
