Job responsibilities
- Influences short-, mid- and long-term strategies and objectives for socialization, planning and decision making working closely with the x-LOB partners.
- Manage team’s product review cadences working with product leads and build synthesized product and strategy roadmaps across teams.
- Structure and lead strategic special projects (e.g., select new business opportunities / early evaluation of concepts, competitive / industry landscape).
- Work closely with Product, Finance, data team on business cases / investment process. Contributes to annual and quarterly business planning and budget process.
- Build out materials encompassing key business initiatives, KPIs, OKRs review, team expense and budget for periodic review with senior management. .
- Leads end-to-end product delivery processes including intake, dependency management, release management, product operationalization, delivery feasibility decision-making, and product performance reporting, while escalating opportunities to improve efficiencies and functional coordination.
- Leads the completion of change management activities across functional partners and ensures adherence to the firm’s risk, controls, compliance, and regulatory requirements.
- Effectively manages timelines and dependencies while monitoring blockers, ensuring adequate resourcing, and liaising with stakeholders and functional partners.
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in product delivery or a relevant domain area
- Demonstrated ability to execute operational management and change readiness activities
- Strong understanding of delivery and a proven track record of implementing continuous improvement processes
- Experience in product or platform-wide release management, in addition to deployment processes and strategies
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Minimum of 7 years product, strategy, business management, consulting or related experience; financial services experience preferred.
- Proven track record of organization, strategy, structured thinking
- Interest in product management and payments innovation
- Proven track record of strong prior performance in demanding fast-changing environments; flexibility and resilience strongly valued.
- High EQ and IQ; strong focus on building interpersonal relationships and navigating complex, matrix environments.
- Strong executive presence; communication skills and comfort interacting with and presenting to all levels of management / team.
- Strong ability to analyze opportunities & problems, recommend solutions, and communicate effectively & confidently (both verbal and written)
- Positive, team-oriented attitude and inspiring leadership skills a must
- Bachelor’s degree required.
- Travel requirement: as needed as health & travel conditions permit.