Director Payments Product Management
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Job Description
Responsible for leading a Global Payments Products team in vision, strategy, roadmap, budget, thought leadership and capability delivery across a family of Payments core network transaction processing platform products that provides premier services/capabilities and experience to our customers. This includes all aspects of the product life-cycle from product development (vision, strategy, market research/acceptance, industry alignment, roadmap planning, concept ideation, continued relevancy, and profitability) to product capability delivery (capability delivery, agile SDLC methodology, process and controls) and to product readiness (market launch, product/operational readiness).
Main Responsibilities
Monitors market for product opportunities
Develops strategic product road map
Develops documentation to gain approval to begin product development
Manages ongoing enhancements to the products and executional issues
Sets and Supports the product vision
Product Development
Develop, execute and iterate product vision and strategy that translates to a product development roadmap and delivers business value (profitability, continued relevancy)
Monitor and leverage knowledge of the market to identify opportunities and industry alignment
Product Leadership
Provide thought leadership, critical thinking and culture of ideation through leading, managing and development of a high performing Product leadership team of product managers, product owners and business analysts/strategists.
Build and maintain key business relationships (internal and external), culture and common commitment across the product eco-system
Manage finances assigned in product area and support the financial performance of the company
Product Delivery – Capabilities
Champion product initiatives to ensure work is prioritized with highest business value
Leverage partnerships across multiple functions (technology, operations, products, marketing, legal, risk) to ensure collaboration, transparency in the execution of the product roadmap including product platform capabilities delivery and product readiness
Product Readiness
Apply product excellence through-out the product development and delivery life-cycle to ensure successful launch / deployment of product capabilities to the marketplace with high quality, awesome customer experience and high business value
Ensure a solid operational, risk and control environment exists across the product eco-system
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
Education: Bachelor's Degree in Marketing, Business, Technology or related field
Work Experience: 10+ years of experience in Payments, Product development, technical product development, financial services, marketing or related
In lieu of Education Experience: 12+ years of experience in product development, technical product development, financial services, Marketing or Related
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
Master's Degree in Marketing, Business, Technology or related field
6+ years Product Management or Related
Agile software development methodologies / DevOps / CICD experience
What are you waiting for? Apply today!
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