Y Combinator Staff Product Manager, Embedded
Summary
Lead the strategy and execution of Brex's Embedded API and partner platform, enabling 10x growth by integrating card programs into third-party financial software and workflows.
Why join us
Brex is the intelligent finance platform that enables companies to spend smarter and move faster in more than 200 markets. By combining global corporate cards and banking with intuitive spend management, bill pay, and travel software, Brex enables founders and finance teams to accelerate operations, gain real-time visibility, and control spend effortlessly. Brex’s AI-native automation and world-class service eliminate manual expense and accounting tasks for customers so they can focus on what matters most. Tens of thousands of the world's best companies run on Brex, including DoorDash, Coinbase, Robinhood, Zoom, Plaid, Reddit, and SeatGeek.
Working at Brex allows you to push your limits, challenge the status quo, and collaborate with some of the brightest minds in the industry. We’re committed to building a diverse team and inclusive culture and believe your potential should only be limited by how big you can dream. We make this a reality by empowering you with the tools, resources, and support you need to grow your career.
Product at Brex
The Product team is at the forefront of Brex's mission to empower employees anywhere to make better financial decisions. With a deep understanding of the business, we identify and scope the most impactful opportunities for Brex to tackle. We align cross-functional teams—including Engineering, Legal, Compliance, and Design—on key decisions, set strategy, and drive products from inception to launch.
What you’ll do
Embedded is one of Brex’s fastest-growing enterprise channels, bringing our card program into the financial software and workflows customers already trust. As Staff Product Manager, you will lead its next phase.
What began as a project is now a line of business. You will build the Embedded API and partner platform to unlock 10x growth, accelerate partner launches, and expand the financial capabilities available across the ecosystem.
This is a broad, commercially accountable Staff IC role across Product, Card Infrastructure, APIs, and Business Development. You will lead partner discovery and pitches, shape technical and commercial commitments, convert partner needs into reusable capabilities, and own outcomes through launch, adoption, payment volume, and revenue.
Where you’ll work
This role will be based in either our San Francisco, Seattle, or New York office. We are a hybrid environment that combines the energy and connections of being in the office with the benefits and flexibility of working from home. We currently require a minimum of three coordinated days in the office per week, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday. As a perk, we also have up to four weeks per year of fully remote work!
Responsibilities
- Own the multi-year strategy for the Embedded API and partner platform.
- Prioritize the partner segments, workflows, and financial capabilities where Brex can win.
- Lead partner discovery, executive pitches, solution design, and technical planning.
- Turn partner needs into reusable APIs, tooling, and integration patterns rather than bespoke solutions.
- Align Card Infrastructure, API Engineering, Risk, Legal, Compliance, Business Development, and GTM around reliable, scalable launches.
- Use AI to simplify the developer experience and shorten the path from discovery to production.
- Make disciplined tradeoffs about what to commit to, defer, standardize, or decline.
- Own integration speed, reliability, launch rate, payment volume, revenue, and partner expansion.
Requirements
- A track record of scaling an API product, developer platform, or API-led business.
- Strong judgment about developer experience and reliable, secure integrations.
- Technical fluency in APIs, data models, distributed or financial systems, and architecture tradeoffs.
- Credibility in partner discovery, executive pitches, and solution planning.
- Commercial judgment that connects product roadmaps to adoption, payment volume, and revenue.
- A founder or GM mindset that moves from ambiguous strategy to launch-level detail.
- Exceptional communication and influence across technical, business, risk, compliance, and external teams.
- Fintech, payments, issuing, or embedded-finance experience is preferred but not required.
Compensation
The expected salary range for this role is $280,000 - $350,000. However, the starting base pay will depend on a number of factors including the candidate’s location, skills, experience, market demands, and internal pay parity. Depending on the position offered, equity and other forms of compensation may be provided as part of a total compensation package.
Please be aware, job-seekers may be at risk of targeting by malicious actors looking for personal data. Brex recruiters will only reach out via LinkedIn or email with a domain. Any outreach claiming to be from Brex via other sources should be ignored.