Product Manager, API Suite

About us

Yellow Card is the largest and first licensed Stablecoin-based infrastructure provider, operating in 20 African countries and the emerging markets. Our mission is to empower businesses of all sizes, making it easier for them to make international payments, protect their financial assets, manage their treasury function, and access hard currency liquidity.

We are creating “financial infrastructure that works”, disrupting the financial services industry by offering innovative solutions designed to meet the distinct needs of – and real-world challenges faced on a daily basis by – our customers. Leveraging the power of Stablecoins pegged 1:1 to the U.S. dollar (e.g., USDC, USDT, and PYUSD), we deliver our innovative solutions through our commercial trading function and our B2B products (our Payments API and Treasury Portal).

About the Role

The Product Manager, API Suite, is responsible for the strategy, design, and delivery of Yellow Card's API products that enable institutional customers to integrate our Stablecoin infrastructure into their applications and workflows. This role owns the complete experience for both developers (who build integrations) and Treasury Portal users (who configure and manage those integrations), ensuring our APIs are intuitive, well-documented, reliable, and deliver exceptional product experience.

You will be the voice of both customer types, translating their needs into product requirements while partnering closely with the engineering team to ensure backend services are exposed through well-designed APIs. You'll own the API product roadmap, developer documentation, integration tooling, Treasury Portal configuration interfaces, and all touchpoints in the integration journey.

Reporting to the Director of Product Experience, this role requires a unique blend of technical depth, developer empathy, and product management expertise to build API products that developers love and businesses depend on.

Type of person

Critical thinker, organised and driven, with a strong knowledge domain. Dedicated and passionate about their job, humble, and a real team player. Must be a self-starter who can discover, define and prioritise work on their own accord.

Key responsibilities 

Duties include, but are not limited to.

• API Product Experience Strategy & Roadmap
  • Own the API product roadmap, prioritizing features and capabilities based on customer needs, market opportunities, and technical feasibility
  • Conduct API product discovery through developer interviews, Treasury Portal user research, integration analysis, competitive research, and usage data analysis
  • Balance needs across both customer types: technical developers building integrations and business users managing them through the Treasury Portal
  • Balance customer requests with platform consistency, technical constraints, and long-term architectural vision

• Developer Experience & API Design
  • Champion exceptional developer experience (DX) across all API touchpoints and integration workflows
  • Define API design standards including naming conventions, request/response patterns, error handling, and pagination approaches
  • Collaborate with engineering to translate backend services into intuitive, developer-friendly API contracts
  • Ensure experience consistency between API functionality and the Treasury Portal product

• Treasury Portal API Management Experience
  • Own the Treasury Portal experience for API-related features, including: API key management, Webhook configuration, integration monitoring, sandbox vs production management, permission management
  • Design intuitive interfaces that enable non-technical users (finance teams, operations managers) to perform common tasks without developer assistance
  • Build self-service capabilities that reduce support burden for common API management tasks

• Documentation & Developer Resources
  • Own all API documentation, including reference docs, integration guides, quickstart tutorials, and code examples
  • Ensure documentation quality with clear explanations, accurate code samples in multiple languages, and comprehensive error references
  • Create integration playbooks for common use cases (e.g., accepting payments, initiating sends, managing accounts, handling webhooks)
  • Document the Treasury Portal API management features, including guides for setting up API keys, configuring webhooks, and monitoring integrations
  • Develop interactive API explorers or demos that enable hands-on learning
  • Maintain changelog and migration guides for API updates and version transitions

• Analytics & Performance Monitoring
  • Define and track API product experience metrics, including but not limited to: adoption, engagement, developer success, Treasury Portal usage, and satisfaction
  • Analyze usage patterns across both customer types
  • Create dashboards and reports on API product performance for leadership and stakeholders
  • Conduct post-integration reviews with both developers and Treasury Portal users to gather feedback

• Cross-Functional Partnership
  • Engineering/Infrastructure team
    • Communicate customer needs and use cases from both developers and Treasury Portal customers that should drive infrastructure capabilities and service design
    • Review and provide feedback on API contracts proposed by the Infrastructure team before they're published
    • Stay informed on infrastructure roadmap, including:
      • Which payment service providers (PSPs) are currently live, and how they should be represented in the API/Portal
      • Which PSPs are coming soon and expected timelines (so you can communicate availability to customers)
      • New blockchain networks or digital asset capabilities being added
      • Changes to fiat payment corridors or settlement methods

• Sales and Partnerships team
  • Gather integration feedback and feature requests from both developers and Treasury Portal users
  • Create sales enablement materials explaining API capabilities, use cases, and Treasury Portal management features

• Marketing team
  • Develop API product positioning and messaging for both developer and business buyer audiences

Requirements

• 5 years of Product experience, with at least 3 years designing API payment products.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Engineering, Product or Business or other 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.

What We Offer

• Impactful and Purposeful Work: You will be helping to drive financial inclusion across Africa.
• Remote-First Flexibility: We embrace a fully remote work environment.
• Global & Diverse Team: You will have the opportunity to work with talented professionals from 25+ countries across the world, in a multicultural and collaborative environment.
• Learning & Development: Access to resources, support, and autonomy to grow professionally.
• Mental Health Support Services: Your mental well-being matters to us.
• Compensation & Benefits: We offer competitive compensation and meaningful health coverage, and all full-time employees are participants in our stock option plan.

Ready to Join Us?

Are you up for the challenge? Apply today and be part of shaping the future of FinTech. Let's innovate, disrupt, and lead together!