As Senior Product Manager for Tokenization, you will own the product strategy and roadmap for Marqeta's tokenization platform - the foundation that powers digital wallet provisioning and network token transactions, and a central pillar of Marqeta's business. You'll shape the strategic direction of the platform, drive innovation that delivers industry-first capabilities, and manage relationships with key partners including Visa, Mastercard, Apple, and Google.
From launching new products and expanding into emerging use cases to ensuring compliance with network and wallet mandates, you'll deliver impactful capabilities across provisioning, transaction processing, and token lifecycle management. Your passion and attention to detail will help keep a mission-critical platform reliable and compliant - while pushing the boundaries of what's possible in tokenization to create lasting value for customers and Marqeta.
We work Flexible First. This role can be performed remote within the United States or from our Oakland, CA headquarters. We’d love for you to join us.
The Impact You’ll Have
- You'll help shape a compelling product vision and roadmap for the tokenization platform, driving alignment and seeking consensus among leadership, engineering, and cross-functional partners
- Directly engage with Visa, Mastercard, Apple, and Google on compliance mandates, protocol migrations, and strategic partnership initiatives - serving as Marqeta's primary product voice for tokenization
- Collaborate across engineering, operations, and international teams to manage complex, multi-month initiatives such as network migrations and regional compliance rollouts
- Translate network and wallet requirements into clear engineering specifications, writing high-quality PRDs with crisp acceptance criteria that maintain engineering velocity
- Deliver customer value iteratively, launching new capabilities end-to-end — from ideation through rollout — driving measurable gains in token provisioning and transaction processing volume
- Identify and flag customer-impacting gaps in the platform, surfacing issues to leadership early with clear status updates and action plans
- Own the product narrative for tokenization across GTM, Product Support, Customer Success, and onboarding - ensuring cross-functional teams have the product knowledge, documentation, and strategic context they need to move fast and represent the platform accurately to customers
- Collaborate with go-to-market partners to develop product collateral, presentations, and enablement tools that bring tokenization capabilities to customers and prospects
- Stay current with payment industry trends, competitive landscape, and growth opportunities to proactively shape the platform's direction
Who You Are
- 5+ years in a product management role designing and delivering payment solutions that have delighted customers and driven business growth
- Deep expertise in the payment industry ecosystem: card brand regulations, payment networks, tokenization standards, and digital wallet integrations (Apple Pay, Google Pay)
- Proven track record of end-to-end product delivery and execution, with experience independently owning a complex platform with high compliance and reliability requirements
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with a talent for precise articulations of customer problems for technical and business audiences
- Proficient in identifying key metrics, analyzing data, and balancing quantitative and qualitative information to make decisions
- Excellent technical acumen, curiosity, and familiarity with APIs, data analysis, and working alongside engineering teams to shape technically sound solutions
- A customer-centric mindset — you consistently ask "How does this solve the customer's problem?"
- "Roll up your sleeves" mentality to make your products successful and get things done, even when the path is unclear
- Expertise in Agile, stakeholder management, and product lifecycle management
Nice to Haves
- Experience with transaction processing systems, 3DS authentication, or issuer processing platforms
- Familiarity with international payment regulations.
- Experience managing tier-0 or mission-critical services with high uptime expectations
- Understanding of connected platform components beyond tokenization, such as fulfillment, accounts, and issuing systems
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: $120,600 - $150,700
- Premium: $130,500 - $163,100
- Premium Plus: $141,800 - $177,300
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
- Through Flex First, the freedom to live and work wherever you and your family thrive
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.
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Located in the heart of downtown Oakland, Marqeta is proud to be one of the best employers in the East Bay. Our headquarters is located on the shores of Lake Merritt and is walking distance to some of Oakland's best restaurants and breweries on Broadway as well as the 19th St Oakland BART stop.
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