ZBD - Senior Product Manager, Developer Solutions

Role Description

We’re looking for a Senior PM to own ZBD’s Developer Platform — the external interface between our financial infrastructure and the developers who build on top of it.

ZBD is building the financial operating system for the gaming economy: the infrastructure layer through which real money enters, circulates, and exits game experiences. All at internet speed, at internet cost, and within a fully compliant framework that publishers could never build themselves. We’re Series C-funded, licensed in both the US and the EU, and were the first company to receive a MiCA license.

In this role, you’ll own our APIs, SDKs, and other core tooling that developers use to build payments and rewards into their games. This is a hands-on role at a pivotal moment: we’re building significant new platform capabilities, and the patterns you establish will shape how developers experience ZBD for years to come.

What matters most to us isn’t a perfect resume; it’s the right person. Someone who moves fast, finishes things, and gets genuinely annoyed when a developer experience is needlessly painful. Someone who has opinions about API design that they can actually defend. Someone who finds the intersection of gaming and payments fascinating rather than confusing. The learning curve on our tech is something we can handle together – the things we can’t teach are curiosity, craft, and bias toward action.

This role sits within a product team of four PMs, each owning a distinct layer of a B2B2C platform: payments, compliance, consumer experience, and developer surfaces. Nobody is running a solo campaign here. Together, we’re assembling a platform, and the integration points between your work and everyone else’s are where the real craft lives. You’ll need to hold a clear view of your surface while staying deeply connected to what’s being built around you, because the seams matter as much as the features.

What You’ll Do

Own the vision, roadmap, and execution for ZBD’s developer-facing platform with a focus on shipping quickly, iterating often, and a bias towards impact.
Define and evolve REST APIs and SDKs used across mobile, PC, and web. You’ll set and uphold API standards: naming conventions, versioning, idempotency, backward compatibility, deprecation strategy, and error handling.
Partner closely with our Head of DevX to ensure documentation, onboarding flows, and tooling reflect best-in-class developer standards.
Collaborate with Payments and Compliance PMs to translate complex financial flows into clean, compliant developer primitives — abstracting the complexity without hiding the things developers actually need to know.
Engage directly with game developers and partners throughout the sales and onboarding cycle. You can hold your own in a technical conversation, translate what you hear into product decisions, and close the feedback loop fast.
Run structured pilot programs with early partners, collecting real integration feedback and identifying friction points before they become blockers.
Define and track platform health metrics including adoption, activation, time-to-first-transaction, integration success rate, API reliability, and revenue impact.
Navigate stakeholder environments across engineering, compliance, legal, sales, and fellow PMs, building alignment without losing momentum.

What You’ll Bring

6+ years of product management experience with direct ownership of commercial APIs or SDKs – external developer surfaces that drove real adoption, generated measurable revenue, and held up under production load.
Strong opinions about API design: you’ve got strong opinions about idempotency, error handling, versioning strategy, and what a good developer onboarding experience looks like. You’ve probably been annoyed by someone else’s API contract.
Experience with payments or financial infrastructure at the API layer; you understand how transactions flow, where things break, and what a payment API should (and shouldn’t) include.
A commercial instinct that runs alongside your technical one. You think about adoption, revenue, pricing, and what makes an API worth paying for.
Enough familiarity with gaming to have a point of view. You don’t need to have shipped a AAA title, but you should understand how in-game payments work, why they’re often poorly served by existing infrastructure, and what a better version could look like.
Technical credibility with engineers. You are the SME who champions our developer customer use cases – including ones they haven’t thought of yet! You can read an API spec, catch the gaps in a schema, and thoughtfully engage on architecture decisions.
The ability to work within a platform structure where your surface is part of a larger system. You stay connected to what’s being built around you and treat integration points as a first-class concern.

Nice to haves

You’ve built or integrated monetization or payment systems directly into games. Whether that’s a live-service rewards loop, a battle pass economy, a marketplace, or player payouts, you have opinions about what makes those integrations painful or elegant.
You’ve worked with platforms like Unity or Unreal as integration surfaces, and understand the constraints that come with shipping inside a game engine.
You’ve shipped in regulated industries and know how to maintain compliance guardrails while still executing quickly.
You have experience with cryptocurrency or blockchain-based payment systems.
You’ve owned API reliability targets or SLAs for production systems with real consequences when things go wrong.

About ZBD

We power real economies in virtual worlds. With ZBD, gaming becomes a meaningful economic activity and game devs get a new playground for weaving money into the worlds they create.