Senior Product Manager - Cards Issuance

About The Company

Founders today are building global companies from day one — but the systems that manage their money were built for a different era. Aspire exists to change that!

We're building the financial operating system for global founders, bringing banking, software, and automation into a single platform so businesses can move faster across borders and stay focused on building.

Aspire is built by people who think from first principles, care deeply about solving hard problems, and take real ownership of their work. Our team brings global experience from leading fintech and technology companies, and many of us are former founders and operators who understand what it takes to build thoughtfully, make trade-offs, and deliver at scale in a global environment.

Backed by leading global investors including Y Combinator, Peak XV, and Lightspeed, Aspire has been trusted by more than 50,000 startups and growing businesses worldwide to manage their finances since 2018. Together with partners like J.P. Morgan, Visa, and Wise, we're building for the next generation of global companies.

About Aspire

Founders today are building global companies from day one — but the systems that manage their money were built for a different era. Aspire exists to change that. We're building the financial operating system for global founders - combining banking, payments, software, and automation into a single platform to help companies move faster..

Aspire is built by people who think from first principles, care deeply about solving hard problems, and take real ownership of their work. Our team brings global experience from leading fintech and technology companies, and many of us are former founders and operators who understand what it takes to build thoughtfully, make trade-offs, and deliver at scale in a global environment.

Backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Peak XV, and Lightspeed, Aspire serves more than 50,000 startups and growing businesses worldwide. Together with partners like J.P. Morgan, Visa, and Wise, we're building for the next generation of global companies.

About This Role

Cards are the core growth engine for Aspire - driving spend, customer engagement across our platform. Thousands of businesses across Southeast Asia use Aspire cards every day and we're scaling rapidly to new geographies, currencies, features and customer segments. This requires deep thinking our card products are built - from issuing infrastructure, partner integrations, internal operations, and card propositions.

As Senior Product Manager, Cards, you will own the strategy, roadmap and execution of Aspire's card programs end-to-end. This means shaping our multi-geography and multi-currency product vision; leading integrations with card networks, issuer processors, banking partners; and building internal infrastructure that lets us scale reliably. You'll work hand-in-hand with engineering, design, operations, compliance and commercial teams to ship products that our customers and partners genuinely rely on. This is a high ownership role at the intersection of product, infrastructure and business.

What You'll Do

• Own the cards roadmap: Define the product strategy and roadmap for card programs; be accountable for launch and growth performance
• Build and scale issuing infrastructure: Lead integrations with networks, issuers, and processors; ensure reliable authorization, clearing, settlement, and reconciliation at scale
• Own project delivery: Lead complex, cross-functional integrations / initiatives, working collaboratively with product, engineering, operations, compliance and commercial; own delivery timelines and quality
• Own partner relationships: Manage and negotiate with networks, issuers, processors and payment partners
• Build for compliance: Ensure all programs meets the regulatory, scheme and security standards of the markets we operate in
• Be deeply technical and data-driven: Go deep on technical mechanics of card program ; comfortable on technical with engineering

Core Experience

What we are looking for

• 5+ years as a Project Manager, ideally in cards, fintech, or banking infrastructure
• Track record of owning and scaling a product, not just shipping features

Operator mindset

• Sharp problem-solving and attention to detail
• Bias to action
• Ability to drive complex, cross-functional initiatives across multiple stakeholders

Technical depth

• Strong understanding of system design, SDLC, flows, APIs
• Able to work closely with Product and Engineering and make informed technical decisions

Communication

• Clear, structured communicator with the ability to influence internal and external stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience launching or scaling card programs (0>1; 1>10) Exposure to multi-geo card programs
• Background in engineering, data or fintech

By submitting this application, I confirm that all the information given by me in this application for employment and any additional documents attached hereto are true to the best of my knowledge and that I have not wilfully suppressed any material fact. I confirm I have disclosed if applicable any previous employment with Aspire. I accept that if any of the information given by me in this application is in any way false or incorrect, my application may be rejected, any offer of employment may be withdrawn or my employment with Aspire may be terminated summarily or I may be dismissed. By submitting this application, I agree that my personal data will be processed in accordance with Aspire's Candidate Privacy Notice

By submitting this application, I confirm that all the information given by me in this application for employment and any additional documents attached hereto are true to the best of my knowledge and that I have not wilfully suppressed any material fact. I confirm I have disclosed if applicable any previous employment with Aspire. I accept that if any of the information given by me in this application is in any way false or incorrect, my application may be rejected, any offer of employment may be withdrawn or my employment with Aspire may be terminated summarily or I may be dismissed. By submitting this application, I agree that my personal data will be processed in accordance with Aspire's Candidate Privacy Notice