Product Manager

$160K - $200K • New York City Job type Full-time Role Product Experience 1+ years Visa US citizen/visa only

About the role

Arketa is building the operating system for modern fitness and wellness. Our mission is to make wellness more accessible by empowering studios and wellness entrepreneurs to grow beyond in-person classes. We provide a powerful, all-in-one platform to manage and scale hybrid wellness businesses—whether online, in-person, or both. With Arketa, users can easily manage schedules, accept bookings and payments, build on-demand video libraries, host retreats, and run marketing campaigns via text and email. We also offer fully branded apps and websites, so studios can deliver a seamless, professional experience across every customer touchpoint. We’ve raised $15M in Series A funding and are growing quickly. It’s a unique moment to join us—we’re building a category-defining company in a fast-moving space, and we’re looking for teammates who are excited to help shape the future of wellness. The Role: We’re looking for a Product Manager with strong fintech and payments expertise to lead the next generation of Arketa’s financial infrastructure — the systems that power how studios and wellness creators get paid. In this role, you’ll own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for payments, billing, payouts, and financial workflows across the platform. You’ll partner closely with engineering, design, GTM, and leadership to build reliable, intuitive, revenue-critical products that reduce friction, increase trust, and help our customers scale. This is a high-impact, highly cross-functional role designed for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, loves simplifying complex financial systems,and wants to shape the future of how wellness businesses manage and move money.

What You’ll Do:

• Lead product strategy and roadmap for Arketa’s payments,billing,and financial infrastructure.
• Build and optimize financial tools including payouts,reconciliation,invoicing refunds dispute management,and subscription billing.
• Collaborate with engineering design,and data to ship high-impact features that improve speed reliability,and trust in our fintech systems.
• Drive product discovery through user interviews data analysis,and cross-functional research to deeply understand the needs of studiosand wellness creators.
• Partner with GTM teams to support launches gather feedback,and ensure smooth adoption of new financial products.
• Develop a strong understanding of compliance risk fraud KYC (Know Your Customer)and global payment requirements.
• Defineand track KPIs for fintech experience financial performance,and user satisfaction.
• Continuously improve our financial workflows to reduce friction improve accuracy,and help our customers get paid faster.

What We’re Looking For:

-3–6+ years of Product Management experience in fintech payments or financial infrastructure at a high-growth B2B SaaS or marketplace startup.

• Strong technical understanding of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) payment processors (e.g., Stripe) ledgers,and financial systems.
• Experience working with external payment platforms such as Stripe Plaid Adyen Modern Treasury.
• Exceptional problem-solving skills — ability to simplify complexity while moving quickly without sacrificing quality.
• A user-centric mindset with ability to translate financial concepts into intuitive product experiences.
• Comfort operating in a fast-paced environment with ambiguous inputsand evolving priorities.
• Excellent communicationand alignment skills across engineering design compliance (including risk management) finance,and GTM teams.
• (Bonus) Experience supporting global payments (including payout flows) risk management or tax workflows.
• (Bonus) A passion for wellness or fitness or building tools for small business owners.

What We Offer:

• Competitive Salary ($160K - $200K) Stock Options,and Performance-based Bonuses
• Comprehensive Medical Vision,and Dental Insurance
• Unlimited PTO
• Annual Company Offsites
• Wellness Reimbursement
• Catered Lunches/Snacks in NY
• Ownershipand Opportunity for Advancement

For this role,the estimated annual base salary range is $160K–$200K depending on experienceand qualifications.In additionto base pay,we offer equityand performance-based bonuses as partof our total compensation package.We believein compensating fairlyand transparently,and we’re happyto provide more detail duringthe interview process. Arketa is an equal opportunity employer committedto diversityin its workforce.We actively encourage applications from all qualified individuals regardlessof race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin age disability veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.We believea diverseandinclusive workplace fosters innovationand creativity,and we welcome candidates who share our valuesof respect collaborationand excellence.

About Arketa

Arketa is shaping the future of the fitness + wellness industry. Arketa is an all-in-one business platform designedto runand grow modern fitness businesses - from individual instructors tomulti-location studios.Our intuitive platform brings together everything fitness entrepreneurs needin one place from scheduling classesand managing payments toselling on-demand content. Arketa was built by fitness industry experts who understand what it takes tosucceedin this space.Our team is dedicatedtocreating tools that make runninga fitness business easier not harder.