About Raise
Raise is the leading mobile payments and prepaid gift card platform where millions of consumers earn instant cash back and save money on purchases. The company has transformed traditionally simple pieces of plastic into one powerful payment mechanism that can be seamlessly used at 300,000+ retail locations nationwide.

As a marketplace with 4,000+ brands and 500 retail partners, Raise enables consumers to save money and instantly pay for in-store or online purchases at their favorite stores using their digital mobile wallet. In addition to offering value and convenience for consumers, Raise allows retailers to unlock a new, data-driven channel to activate targeted segments of the platform’s more than 2.5 million members.

Added to our suite of products is Slide, a revolutionary contactless payment app that saves members money everywhere they shop, and rZero, a custom approach to fraud prevention that can be applied to each unique customer scenario. 

Since 2013, Raise has saved members more than $150 million. The company is based in Chicago and has received $147 million in funding from investors including Accel, Bessemer Venture Partners, New Enterprise Associates, and PayPal. Raise is available on both iOS and Android and at www.raise.com. 

About the Position
Are you a passionate product leader who enjoys:

• Elevating your craft with proactive research in the areas of emerging technologies, high-level market analysis, and staying in touch with the competitive landscape?
• Getting customers, developers, and executives excited about your roadmap?
• Creating cross-functional buy-in for features and ideas using high impact problem statements backed by user research and data analysis?
• Making recommendations to executives regarding pricing and packaging for B2B product lines?
• Completing build vs. buy vs. partner analyses?
• Executing on your roadmap with a dispersed team of engineers and QA experts via user stories, wireframes, UAT, go-no-go decision-making and other daily practices necessary to see a feature to launch?
• Defining key metrics for monitoring the success of delivering your roadmap and making the appropriate adjustments?
• Collaborating with team members in brainstorming sessions, off-sites, and general product discovery exercises?

Responsibilities 

• Leverages product management and product knowledge to generate and evaluate new product opportunities and ideas submitted by others
• Analyzes customer data and market research to provide actionable insights to inform a product roadmap, with guidance from more senior Product Managers where necessary
• Produces a product roadmap with proper phasing, communicates product roadmap to cross-functional partners and stakeholders, and proactively identifies and manages interdependencies
• Leads the product discovery process for small, defined and straightforward projects to assess product features and specifications, getting support from manager as needed
• Drives the product discovery process for moderately complex projects to assess product features and specifications and to solve common or straightforward business problems
• Identifies and readily communicates cross-job function projects or initiatives in area of responsibility
• Manages backlog
• Plans and runs SCRUMs/Standups
• Makes on-going clarifications and trade-offs
• Elicits the right information to build effective solutions
• Defines the overall measures of product success

Skills & Qualifications

• Three years of product management experience 
• Background in agile development methodologies
• Business or computer related bachelor’s degree, masters preferred

Benefits

Raise offers a comprehensive benefits package to all our employees, including:

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(K) plan with discretionary company match
• Company-paid short-and-long-term disability
• Company-paid life insurance
• Pre-tax health flex spending and dependent care plan
• Flexible Paid Time Off Policy, including sick time, unlimited vacation, and Raise Gives Back time off for volunteering
• Pre-tax commuter program
• Paid parental leave
• Voluntary benefits, such as Pet Insurance and Identity Protection