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# Technical Product Owner - Risk Team at Rainforest

- **Company:** Rainforest
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-04-20
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/rainforest-pay/608504b5-28bc-4c9e-92ce-c62b22ca6323

## Job description

Who is Rainforest?

Rainforest is an early stage payments-as-a-service startup that has developed a solution that makes monetizing payments for vertically focused software platforms fair and simple.

We focus on small-to-mid sized platforms that want to add value to their small business customers through embedded payments — and want to do so without adding operational or regulatory burdens or costs.

Led by a successful repeat fintech founder with deep knowledge of the industry, and with venture backing from a Top 10 VC firm, Rainforest is well positioned to make an impact in the payments-as-a-service space, and we're looking for new team members who want to be a part of this journey!

Who are we looking for?

Rainforest is looking for an experienced Technical Product Owner passionate about bringing payments products to life. You’ll partner with our Risk engineering team to define and prioritize payment products that are embedded into our client's vertical SaaS software.

In this role, we need an individual who enjoys working with a significant amount of autonomy and is excited about helping to build out amazing integrations, dashboards, and automations for merchant underwriting, onboarding, and credit/fraud risk monitoring. You’ll know you're the right candidate if you enjoy digging into the technology and crafting tickets, and are also looking for opportunities to grow and expand your product experience.

What are some of the high-impact opportunities you’ll tackle?

- Owning delivery of product initiatives and releases by defining, documenting, and communicating goals, requirements, and constraints
- Working with product leadership to translate product strategy into well-defined functional and technical requirements for the engineering team
- Functioning within the Experience engineering team, attend agile meetings, help communicate the product stories and requirements, and execute the delivery of a product into production at scale
- Writing technical documentation
- Helping to manage and prioritize the product backlog
- Building strong collaborative working relationships with product and engineering teams, risk operations teams, as well as other Rainforest internal and external stakeholders
- Working with our vendors to ensure integrations are accurate and maintained

This opportunity is for you if you have / are:

- 5+ years as a Product Owner or similar role
- Knowledge of payment processing and/or PayFac, especially of payments risk including KYC/KYB, underwriting, transaction monitoring, fraud detection and remediation, and credit risk scoring
- Experience with automation for risk, including automated scoring, machine learning, data gathering and pipelines, and remediation
- Understanding and experience with Product Management concepts such as roadmaps, product vision and strategy, and product market research
- Proven experience in gathering requirements, creating documentation, and user stories as well as a strong understanding and work with agile scrum teams
- Ability to visualize and prototype stories and feature sets
- Strong organization, written and communication skills
- Ease of working within a team structure in a collaborative manner
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Experience in agile software development with continuous deployment release strategies
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in the areas of Information Science, Computer Science, or related disciplines, is preferred

We offer a comprehensive health benefits package, unlimited paid time off, paid parental leave, a fun and flexible working environment, and continuously invest in our people and our culture.

If you require any accommodations throughout the pre-employment process, please contact our HR team at hr@rainforestpay.com

## About Rainforest

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Rainforest is a Payments-as-a-Service (PaaS) provider that enables vertical SaaS platforms to embed payment processing into their products, handling compliance, risk, and reporting.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B)
- **Headquarters**: Atlanta, Georgia, United States (4062 Peachtree Road North East Suite A-474)
- **Founded**: 2022
- **Founders**: Not publicly available

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services / Embedded Payments
- **Target customers**: B2B – vertical SaaS platforms (e.g., software companies that want to offer payments to their own merchants)
- **Mission or purpose**: To help software companies build and optimize embedded financial services, enabling them to drive significant new revenue and improve customer retention without taking on risk or compliance burdens.

## Products & Services
- **Embedded Payments Platform**: A full-stack, API-first solution that allows SaaS platforms to accept payments via card, PayPal, Venmo, PayPal Pay Later, ACH, Apple Pay, and terminals. Includes real-time merchant onboarding, KYC, fraud monitoring, PCI compliance, next-day funding, and embedded reporting/chargeback handling.
- **Component Studio**: A white-label, low-code tool for customizing the payment experience without heavy development.
- **Revenue Calculator**: An online tool that estimates potential payments revenue for a given platform’s volume and margin.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $1.1M (LinkedIn estimate); Total Funding of $60.8M (LinkedIn) or $64M (CB Insights – conflicting reports)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Matrix (lead Series B & Series A), Accel (lead Seed), Infinity Ventures (co-lead Series B), Silicon Valley Bank (debt financing), The Fintech Fund
- **Growth Signals**: 55% YoY headcount growth (52 employees as of mid-2026); raised $29M Series B in October 2025; expanding presence in Germany; active job postings for engineering and product roles

## Competitive Advantages
- **Purpose-built for vertical SaaS**: Unlike most embedded payments providers that sit on top of merchant acquirers, Rainforest was built from the ground up for the unique needs of software platforms, offering better unit economics and full data portability.
- **Platform-friendly contracts**: Clients retain full ownership of customer relationships, experience, and data.
- **Compliance as a service**: Handles merchant onboarding, KYC, PCI compliance, and fraud monitoring so platforms don’t have to become registered payment facilitators.
- **Developer experience**: Robust API, detailed guides, sandbox testing, realtime logs, and low-code components that reduce integration time from months to days.

## Strategic Focus
- **Growth through platform revenue**: Helping vertical SaaS platforms maximize payments volume and margin via embedded payments.
- **Product expansion**: Adding more payment methods (terminals, international options) and enhancing the Component Studio.
- **Geographic reach**: Building out European presence (already has a team member in Germany) to capture the global shift toward software-led payments.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & values**: “Be Exceptional,” “Delight Customers,” “Focus on Quality,” “Ruthlessly Simplify,” “Compete Together” – emphasis on high-quality service and continuous improvement.
- **Flexibility**: Fully remote positions available; flexible work-from-home arrangements; untracked PTO; $100/month remote work stipend for cell/internet/office supplies.
- **Tech setup**: MacBook Pro or MacBook Air plus any reasonable peripherals.
- **Health & wellness**: Medical, dental, vision insurance via Justworks; free OneMedical, Teladoc, and Health Advocate access; 401k with low-cost index funds.
- **Parental leave**: Up to 16 weeks for birthing parents, 6 weeks for non-birthing parents.
- **Office space**: Dedicated space at Atlanta Tech Village with MARTA transit pass or parking pass.
- **Engineering focus**: “Built by developers for developers” – strong developer experience emphasis, with open roles for Software Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers.

## Sources
1. [Rainforest Careers Page](https://www.rainforestpay.com/careers)
2. [Rainforest Homepage](https://www.rainforestpay.com/)
3. [Rainforest LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/rainforestpay)
4. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/rainforest-1)

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