Technical Product Manager – Sonar
Sardine
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About this opportunity
About the opportunity: Sardine is seeking a Principal or experienced Product Manager to own Sonar, scaling it from an industry data utility to critical AI infrastructure for agentic commerce.
Sonar is a subsidiary of Sardine and an external-facing consortium of financial institutions and fintechs registered under FinCEN Section 314(b), allowing members to share fraud, scam, and money laundering signals through governed data packs.
This is a high-autonomy, technically fluent PM role where you will own the product roadmap, design APIs and infrastructure behind AI agents, and collaborate with legal counsel on regulated data-sharing compliance.
You will work directly with engineering, legal, business development, and member institutions to build secure collaboration, identity and trust, investigation, and distribution layers.
Job details
- Location: Remote - United States (requires maintaining a home base in the US; occasional travel to meet members and the team)
- Compensation: Generous compensation in cash and equity
Key responsibilities
- Own the Sonar roadmap and build infrastructure layers for institutional collaboration, identity and trust, investigation, and distribution.
- Write and maintain technical specifications, integration playbooks, and documentation for member and partner integrations.
- Translate 314(b), GLBA, FCRA, and BSA constraints into product requirements, working directly with Legal on implementation questions.
- Partner with Engineering on the data and platform architecture required for Sonar to scale.
- Work with fraud, AML, and investigations teams at member institutions to understand and improve analyst workflows.
- Define and track success metrics, including member adoption, inquiry volume, response rates, time to answer, and agent usage quality.
- Partner with BD, Sales, and Partnerships to bring new institutions and platform partners onto Sonar.
Qualifications
- 6+ years of product management experience, including 3+ years in payment networks, fintech, financial crime, identity, or data platform products.
- Experience shipping APIs or developer-facing products, with fluency in authentication, scoped credentials, and audit logging.
- Hands-on experience with AI agents and the infrastructure that supports them.
- Working knowledge of financial crime, including fraud, AML, and investigation workflows.
- Experience building within regulatory constraints on data use, with familiarity in 314(b), GLBA, or FCRA.
- Strong analytical skills and comfort querying data to inform decisions.
- Clear written communication skills with the ability to interface with engineers, lawyers, and bank executives.
Nice to have
- Experience with consortium, data cooperative, or information-sharing products.
- Background in entity resolution or graph-based investigation.
- Prior time at a bank, a payments network, or a compliance technology vendor.
Benefits
- Generous compensation in cash and equity with early exercise for all options, including pre-vested.
- Flexible paid time off and Year-end break.
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
- 4% matching in 401(k).
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door and a one-time home office setup stipend.
- Monthly meal stipend and monthly social meet-up stipend.
- Annual health and wellness stipend and annual learning stipend.
Additional information
- Sardine operates as a remote-first team, allowing you to work flexibly from within your hired country.
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Key details from the source
- Our platform is powered by a rapidly growing fraud consortium spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide.
Full listing
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