--- title: 'Product Manager, Membership & Payments at Raya' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/product-manager-membership-payments-raya-remote-2ss6bqkmk9nj' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-23' --- # Product Manager, Membership & Payments at Raya - **Company:** Raya - **Location:** Remote - **Compensation:** $170k–$220k - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-09-11 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-23 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/raya/6ce3fd0a-bbe5-4b99-a597-3a531c0fc637 ## Job description Raya is building a better social internet. Our mission is to be the best platform in the world for high-quality, trusted, authentic connection. We bring together a curated global community and create an elevated experience where members can discover and make meaningful connections they can’t find elsewhere, built around trusted recommendations and our core values of trust, creativity, and reciprocity. We are seeking an experienced Product Manager to join our Core Membership Experience team, owning critical parts of the member lifecycle with a particular focus on payments. Member Experience owns the journey from application and onboarding through activation, subscriptions, renewal, and reactivation. This role will own the experiences that turn accepted applicants into members and make it seamless for members to start, manage, and reactivate their membership, with payments sitting at the center of that journey. The ideal candidate has 4+ years of product management experience building consumer subscription products, with deep experience in iOS payments and subscriptions, including Apple StoreKit and third-party payment providers such as Stripe. We are looking for a hands-on product manager who enjoys getting into the details, works closely with engineering, design, and data, and takes ownership from identifying a problem through shipping and measuring the solution. We offer comprehensive medical and dental coverage, $50 a day food delivery budget, equity based employment, a great culture, learning opportunities, unlimited vacation, 12 weeks paid parental leave, and we pay all employees $1,000 a year to go somewhere in the world that they’ve never been because of our values of human connection, empathy, and curiosity. ## Responsibilities - Own key parts of the membership lifecycle end to end, including onboarding, activation, payments, subscriptions, and reactivation - Develop a deep understanding of our membership and payment funnels, using data to identify opportunities, diagnose issues, and improve conversion and reliability - Build and evolve payment experiences across Apple in-app purchases and third-party payment providers - Proactively identify problems and opportunities across the member journey and drive them toward resolution with a high degree of autonomy - Own the roadmap and execution for your product area, from problem definition and prioritization through launch and iteration - Lead a cross-functional team across engineering, design, and data, creating clarity, making tradeoffs, and driving work forward ## Requirements - 4+ years of product management experience, including significant experience leading the day-to-day work of cross-functional engineering teams - Experience owning consumer subscription products and the funnels that drive activation, conversion, retention, or reactivation - Deep production experience with Apple StoreKit payments and subscriptions for an iOS consumer product - Production experience with third-party payments and subscriptions, ideally Stripe, for a B2C subscription product - Strong technical and analytical fluency, including experience working with engineers on complex payment systems and using funnel data to diagnose problems and measure impact - Proven ability to own complex products from strategy through detailed execution and consistently deliver on commitments - A bias toward action, strong ownership mentality, and willingness to get deep into the details rather than operate a layer above the work ## About Raya ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Raya is a private, membership-based community platform where people around the world can connect and collaborate to find life partners, friends, and professional opportunities. - **Entity Type**: Private (Pre-Seed funded, 2016) - **Headquarters**: Los Angeles, California, United States - **Founded**: 2015 - **Founders**: Not publicly disclosed ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Technology, Information and Internet - **Target customers**: B2C – Adults seeking a trusted, curated social networking experience - **Mission or purpose statement**: To create a trusted online community where people feel comfortable finding life partners, friends, and work collaborations, and to bring these interactions into the real world. ## Products & Services - **Raya App**: A membership-based social community platform that uses an application process with algorithmic assessment and anonymous committee input to curate its user base. Members pay a monthly fee and are expected to follow rules of respect, trust, and privacy. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available - **Key Metric**: Total Funding – At least one Pre-Seed round ($1.6M led by Atlas Finance Group in Dec 2016) and another round in June 2019 (details undisclosed). Additional investors include Dreamers VC, Analog Ventures, Section 32, X&Management, and Niche Capital. - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Atlas Finance Group, Dreamers VC, Analog Ventures, Section 32, X&Management, Niche Capital - **Growth Signals**: Headcount of ~101 employees, with a **yearly growth of +38.6%**. Workforce distributed across 15 countries. Active job postings are up **+33.3% year-over-year**, indicating expansion. ## Competitive Advantages - **High Curation/Exclusivity**: Raya’s strict application process (with referrals and committee review) creates a highly selective, trust-based community that differentiates it from mass-market social networks. - **Community-First Culture**: Strong emphasis on member behavior and shared values; low report rate (~1 in 11,000 connections) signals a high-quality user experience. - **Privacy & Trust**: Strict policies against hate, excessive wealth display, and disrespect, creating a safe environment for genuine connections. ## Strategic Focus - **Global Expansion**: Raya has openings in Los Angeles, New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Barcelona, and Mexico City, and is actively growing its engineering and product teams. - **AI & ML Integration**: The company has a dedicated Head of Machine Learning, AI, and Data, and uses algorithms to assess applications and improve the community experience. - **Product Development**: Active hiring for Product Managers and Senior Backend Engineers suggests investment in new features (e.g., "Places") and scaling core infrastructure. ## Why Work Here - **Career Growth**: Fast-growing company (+38.6% YoY headcount) with opportunities to take on ownership in engineering, product, and AI/ML roles. - **Global & Remote-first Culture**: Fully remote roles available, with global hubs and a diverse team across 15 countries. - **Technical Challenges**: Work on complex systems for recommendations, member experience, and internal tools using a modern stack (Python, Node.js, Kubernetes, MongoDB, TensorFlow, Looker, dbt). - **Culture**: Described as a "family of talented individuals" devoted to fostering human connection through technology. - **Location Flexibility**: Remote roles; hubs in major cities worldwide. ## Sources 1. [rayatheapp.com](https://www.rayatheapp.com/about) 2. [rayatheapp.com/careers](https://www.rayatheapp.com/careers) 3. [LinkedIn](https://linkedin.com/company/rayatheapp) 4. [Lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/raya) 5. 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