Lead Product Manager, Cross Border Payments

Our client is an American multinational financial technology company operating an online payments system in the majority of countries that support online money transfers, and serves as an electronic alternative to traditional paper methods such as checks and money orders. The company operates as a payment processor for online vendors, auction sites and many other commercial users, for which it charges a fee.

They are championing possibilities for all by making money fast, easy, and more enjoyable. Their hope is to unlock opportunities for people in their everyday lives and empower the millions of people and businesses around the world who trust, rely, and use their services.

Responsibilities: 

• Drive innovation and ideation discussions with internal stakeholders and external partners to drive FX optimizations.
• Ensure product vision and requirements are defined globally, with long-term and scale in mind.
• Make tradeoff decisions based on technical and business insights.
• Write clear, detailed and thorough specifications and user stories for complex features, functionality and products.
• Collaborate with a large global team across Product Management, Engineering, PMO, and different business functions for development and integration of FX product-related capabilities
• Partner with FX Treasury to identify opportunities to develop new FX products
• Partner with Go-to-Market team on launching new products capabilities and expanding existing capabilities
• Clearly solicit feedback and distill vision, strategy, product benefits and results to our internal customers.
• Monitor impact of product features and key metrics.
• Troubleshoot product issues and answer product questions – be an FX Product ‘expert’.

Requirements: 

• Experience in foreign exchange management, Payments, Pricing or cross-border e-Commerce is required.
• Experience with Agile development as a product owner for a scrum team, design thinking and customer centric approach is preferred.
• "Driving capabilities" - taking initiative, persevering through challenges, constantly pushing toward clarity and delivery while balancing the need for great collaboration, driving consensus and delivering in a matrix organization with multiple stakeholders.
• Strong writing skills and ability to converse with technical and non-technical personnel fluently, articulating complex business factors, progress, issues and recommendations in a concise manner to all levels and functions.
• Strong analytical ability, attention to details and data-driven decision making ability.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment, handling multiple priorities concurrently with minimal guidance is a must.
• Deep desire to grow and learn and passion for vision to democratize money.

Desired Skills And Experience:

• Strong technical product skills and strong communication skills.
• 5+ years of experience in general technology product management.
• 2+ years of experience in FX, Payments, Pricing or e-commerce experience required.
• Ability to excel and lead in a fast paced, global and innovative environment.
• Bachelors degree in a technical discipline, MBA a plus.