Remitly

Principal Program Manager, Technical - Global Money Movement

Remitly$168K — $210K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of program management experience
  • Proven track record in defining and executing long-term product vision
  • Experience with external partner integration and relationship management
  • Strong technical fluency in architecture, APIs, and distributed systems
  • Analytical skills with proficiency in SQL for data-driven decision making
  • Successful in influencing VP-level stakeholders in high-impact environments
  • Experience in payments or global network platforms preferred

Responsibilities

  • Own the strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for the disbursement program
  • Utilize AI to enhance program operations and efficiency
  • Advocate for program needs with external partners and senior leadership
  • Understand and evaluate Remitly's services and partner systems
  • Drive platform engineering teams to develop required features
  • Identify market changes and customer issues to inform program strategy
  • Use data to define success metrics and prioritize investments

Benefits

  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health, dental, and vision plans with 401k matching
  • Paid leave for parental, medical, military, and family care
  • Mental health and family forming benefits
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Continuing education benefits
Full Job Description
About the Role:

The Global Network team is looking for a Principal Program Manager - Technical to own the Remitly Business disbursement program: the network capabilities, partnerships, and platform investments that enable Remitly to move money to and on behalf of businesses. The Global Network team is a fundamental driver of Remitly's ability to reach international customers and provide a diverse set of disbursement methods. From the quality of integrations, to a world class money transfer platform that disburses billions of dollars, to the customer-facing experiences we build, the Global Network team directly impacts the Remitly experience. In this role, you won't build the platform yourself - you will work cross-functionally with platform owners to influence what gets built to support your program.

As a Principal leader, you will define and drive the long-term vision and strategy for business disbursement at Remitly. This is a high-consequence, high-scale program: you will work with external partners, shape commercial terms, and drive the platform capabilities that make business payouts reliable, fast, and defensible. You will architect the future state of this program - scalable integration frameworks, reusable infrastructure, and differentiated capabilities that compound across markets - and you will use AI as a core working tool to get there, accelerating discovery, analysis, and execution well beyond what a single owner could traditionally deliver.

As the single threaded owner, you will identify bold, high-conviction bets that create durable competitive advantage. You will determine where to invest, where to standardize and platformize, and where to innovate - including where AI can unlock structural differentiation in speed, cost, coverage, and resiliency. You will balance immediate customer and commercial opportunities with foundational investments that compound over time, and you will be accountable for the program's vision, roadmap, and measurable outcomes.

You will report to the Director of Global Money Movement and drive outcomes through influence across engineering, platform, compliance, and business teams.

You Will:
  • Own the end-to-end strategy, roadmap, and measurable outcomes for Remitly's business disbursement program - and personally execute against it, from partner escalations to launch checklists
  • Use AI tools as a force multiplier across your work - from analysis and technical discovery to program operations - and raise the bar for how the team applies AI to move faster with higher quality
  • Work directly with external partners and represent the program with Business Development and business unit leadership, advocating at the VP level for the investments and commercial structures the program needs
  • Develop a deep understanding of Remitly's services and platform architecture, evaluating how they interoperate with partner APIs and local payment rails to inform architecture decisions and scalable integration patterns
  • Drive internal platform and engineering teams to build the features business disbursement requires, through clear requirements, structured problem solving, and strong technical judgment
  • Identify and prioritize customer pain points, market shifts, and competitive opportunities to shape a differentiated and defensible program strategy
  • Ground decisions in data - define the program's success metrics, run your own analyses to size opportunities and diagnose issues, and use the results to drive prioritization and investment tradeoffs
  • Elevate product thinking within the team by fostering clarity of vision, customer obsession, and a high bar for scalable, platform oriented solutions


You Have:
  • 10+ years of program management experience
  • Proven experience defining and driving long term product or program vision and translating strategy into measurable business and customer outcomes
  • Experience working directly with external partners - driving technical integrations and managing ongoing partner relationships - in collaboration with business development teams
  • Strong technical fluency, with the ability to engage deeply in architecture discussions, reason about APIs and distributed systems, and make informed tradeoffs with engineering
  • Experience owning a product or platform with clear accountability for performance metrics such as reliability, speed, cost, and growth
  • Strong analytical skills: comfortable pulling and analyzing data yourself (e.g., SQL) to inform decisions, measure outcomes, and make the case for investments
  • Demonstrated success influencing senior stakeholders - including VP-level executives - and aligning cross functional teams in ambiguous, high impact environments
  • An operator's bias for action: you are as comfortable executing the work yourself - writing docs, testing integrations, chasing down blockers - as you are setting the strategy
  • Strong product judgment, with the ability to balance short term results with foundational investments that create durable competitive advantage
  • A track record of effectively applying AI tools to your own work - accelerating analysis, prototyping, and decision making - and of helping others do the same
  • Experience in payments, remittance, financial infrastructure, or global network platforms strongly preferred


Compensation Details: The starting base salary range for this position is typically $168,000-$210,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role. #LI-Hybrid

Our Benefits:
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
  • Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
  • Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Continuing education benefits


Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together
At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster.

Under the Company's current hybrid-work expectations, employees in this position work onsite Tuesday through Thursday each week. Additional onsite attendance may be required based on business needs, and the Company may modify its hybrid-work expectations from time to time. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

About Remitly

Remitly is a digital remittance company that provides international money transfers. The company's platform allows users to send money to family and friends in other countries using a mobile device or computer. Remitly's services are available in over 20 countries and support over 40 currencies. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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1,000 employees
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Founded
2011

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