Principal Program Manager, Technical Global Money Movement

Job Description:

At Remitly we believe everyone deserves the freedom to access move and manage their money wherever life takes them. Since 2011 weve tirelessly delivered on our promise to customers sending money globally providing secure simple and reliable ways to manage their money ensuring true peace of mind. Whether its supporting loved ones back home growing a business across continents or pursuing new opportunities abroad were not just here to move money were here to move our global customers forward.

Were looking for builders reimaginers and global thinkers who want to work at the intersection of technology trust and transformation. If thats you and youre ready to do the most meaningful work of your careerwe invite you to join over 2800 passionate Remitlians worldwide who are united by our vision to transform lives with trusted financial services that transcend borders.

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 Remitlys 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 this role you wont 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 programs 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 Remitlys 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 Remitlys 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 programs 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 operators 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 $168000-$210000. 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 Companys 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.

Remitly is an E-Verify Employer

At Remitly we are dedicated to ensuring that our workplace offers equal employment opportunities to all employees and candidates in full compliance with applicable laws and regulations.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.

Remitly is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.