Astra Finance

Platform Engineer

• Build Release Confidence Systems: Design and implement automated smoke tests and workflow validations for our most important payment flows, and integrate them into CI and release gates
• Improve Environment Fidelity: Make testing and staging behave more like production by improving stability, data hygiene, environment health checks, and repeatable test scenarios
• Develop Test Infrastructure: Build frameworks and harnesses for API and event-driven workflow testing, including partner simulations and contract checks where appropriate
• Enable Developer Productivity: Build internal self-service tooling and automation that reduces manual steps, improves debugging workflows, and increases engineering velocity
• Improve Release Observability and Documentation: Strengthen release dashboards, visibility, and documentation practices to improve triage, bug tracking, and regression prevention over time
• Strengthen CI and Developer Workflows: Improve CI speed and signal, reduce flaky tests, and make failures easy to debug with useful artifacts and visibility
• Add Operational Guardrails: Partner with engineering to define monitors, canaries, rollout strategies, and rollback patterns for higher-risk changes
• Close the Loop on Regressions: Turn production regressions into durable prevention by adding automated checks, checklist steps, improved documentation, or better safety rails

Senior Platform Engineer, Quality Systems

Product Marketing

• Develop and execute comprehensive launch plans for new payment products and platform features, coordinating across product, sales, and marketing teams.
• Produce whitepapers, case studies, blog posts, webinar content, and email campaigns that educate the market and drive inbound demand.
• Create differentiated positioning that translates our technical capabilities into clear business value for target buyers — from technical decision-makers to finance leaders.
• Build pitch decks, battle cards, demo scripts, and objection-handling guides that empower our sales team to close deals faster and with higher confidence.
• Conduct ongoing customer research, competitive analysis, and win/loss analysis to inform product strategy and refine our messaging.
• Develop compelling success stories and ROI narratives that demonstrate how Astra powers financial operations at scale.
• Represent Astra online and in-person, including industry conferences and events, building credibility and thought leadership in the payments ecosystem.
• Own cross-functional launch timelines, ensuring coordinated execution across product releases, sales training, campaign activation, and customer communications.

Product Marketing Lead

Product Manager

• Establish product management as a core discipline at Astra from day one
• Define product processes, frameworks, and rituals that scale with the company
• Set the bar for product excellence and build a culture of customer obsession
• Eventually hire and mentor a world-class product team as we grow
• Define product vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmaps for critical platform capabilities
• Drive products from conception through launch, iteration, and scale
• Make strategic trade-offs between competing priorities while maintaining focus on customer outcomes
• Partner with engineering leadership to architect scalable, reliable solutions
• Conduct deep customer research to understand pain points, workflows, and unmet needs
• Build strong relationships with key customers and prospects to inform product direction
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear value propositions
• Gather and synthesize feedback to continuously improve product-market fit
• Work closely with engineering teams to define technical requirements and scope releases
• Collaborate with design to create intuitive experiences for developer and business users
• Partner with compliance and risk teams to ensure products meet regulatory requirements
• Enable sales and customer success teams with the tools and narratives to drive adoption
• Define and track key product metrics and success criteria
• Analyze usage patterns, customer feedback, and market trends to inform priorities
• Run experiments to validate hypotheses and optimize product experiences
• Use quantitative and qualitative insights to guide strategic decisions
• Present product strategy and updates to executive leadership and board members
• Write clear, concise product documentation and requirements
• Build alignment across multiple stakeholders with competing interests
• Advocate for the customer while balancing business and technical constraints

Director of Product

Implementation Specialist

• Own multiple customer implementations simultaneously from kickoff through go-live, managing timelines, milestones, and deliverables to ensure on-time, compliant launches.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for customers during implementation, conducting kickoff calls, weekly status meetings, technical reviews, and go-live readiness assessments.
• Bridge the gap between Astra's technical capabilities and customer requirements, explaining API concepts, authentication flows, webhook configurations, and integration patterns to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Coordinate between Sales, Engineering, Product, and Compliance teams to ensure seamless handoffs, clear communication, and aligned expectations throughout the implementation.
• Build and maintain implementation guides, project templates, technical documentation, and best practice playbooks that enable faster, more consistent customer onboarding.
• Proactively identify implementation blockers, technical challenges, or scope changes, escalating issues appropriately and developing mitigation plans to keep projects on track.
• Track implementation metrics (time-to-launch, customer satisfaction, common bottlenecks) and recommend process improvements to accelerate future implementations.
• Coordinate go-live activities, including final testing, production launch planning, post-launch monitoring and customer success.

Implementation Manager, API Integrations

People Operations

• Partner with leadership on headcount planning, organizational design, role clarity, and scaling strategy aligned with company goals.
• Build scalable recruiting processes, interview frameworks, onboarding programs, and hiring manager enablement to support rapid growth with high quality.
• Design performance management, feedback cycles, goal-setting frameworks, and career progression systems that drive accountability and growth.
• Own compensation philosophy, leveling frameworks, equity programs, benchmarking, and benefits strategy to attract and retain top talent.
• Coach and support managers on hiring, feedback, performance management, employee development, and difficult conversations.
• Own HR operations including payroll, benefits administration, employment compliance, policies, documentation, and HR tooling.
• Design and continuously improve onboarding, engagement, retention, and employee communications across a remote-first workforce.
• Help articulate and reinforce company values, operating norms, and leadership behaviors as Astra scales.
• Build people analytics and dashboards to inform leadership decisions on retention, performance, hiring velocity, and organizational health.
• Partner with legal and finance on employment risk, policy compliance, investigations, and sensitive employee matters.

Head of People

Compliance

• Own day-to-day execution of SOC 1, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and ISO 27001 readiness and audit cycles – including scoping, control testing, evidence collection, auditor coordination, and remediation tracking.
• Develop and maintain policies, procedures, risk assessments, control narratives, and supporting documentation that meet auditor expectations and scale with the business.
• Map controls across SOC, ISO, PCI, and NIST frameworks to identify overlap, gaps, automation opportunities, and control maturity improvements.
• Facilitate risk assessments for systems, vendors, products, and business initiatives. Maintain risk registers, mitigation plans, and executive reporting on residual risk.
• Partner with engineering and infrastructure teams to translate security requirements into practical technical controls across cloud infrastructure, SDLC, access management, logging, monitoring, and incident response.
• Manage vendor security reviews, questionnaires, evidence validation, risk scoring, and ongoing monitoring for critical third parties and partners.
• Support customer security reviews, security questionnaires, and trust documentation that enable enterprise sales and bank partnerships.
• Help build scalable compliance workflows, tooling, and automation to reduce manual effort and improve evidence quality as Astra grows.
• Maintain dashboards and reporting on audit status, control health, remediation progress, and risk posture for leadership.

Senior Platform Engineer, Quality Systems

Product Marketing Lead

Director of Product

Implementation Manager, API Integrations

Head of People

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