Product Manager -Card Authorizations

Develop and execute a strategic vision for the card authorizations product, aligning product development with business goals and customer needs.

Lead and mentor a high-performing team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and excellence.

Create business solutions that align with strategic objectives, ensuring that product development is integrated with business goals and processes.

Conduct detailed business analysis to identify and document business requirements, processes, and solutions. Maintain a deep knowledge of area product vision, strategy, roadmap, technical, and operational aspects.

Build strong relationships with Product, Technology, Data, and Business partners, setting clear expectations and providing excellent written and verbal communication. Support the Agility Lead in driving continuous improvement across the team to drive efficiencies and improve the overall effectiveness of agile.

Facilitate workshops and meetings to gather requirements, drive consensus, and analyze business needs.

Monitor industry trends and best practices to ensure the organization remains competitive.

Develop and maintain business architecture and capabilities models that reflect the product’s strategies and goals , documentation related to business architecture, processes, ,business analysis findings, 

Focus on risk and controls, partnering with PO’s/APO’s/Agility Leads/Designers to confirm impacts and scope across teams.

Monitor Jira hygiene and enforce Jira standards, tracking IT and non-IT work.

Manage product roadmap to align with the product budget and ensuring team availability. Manage dependencies, including inside and outside of the product area. Oversee release management and communication, proactively identifying and managing issues.

Proven experience as a Product Leader, Business Architect, or Business Analyst, with 10+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area.

Demonstrated leadership experience, with the ability to lead and mentor teams, fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration.

Strong understanding of business processes, systems, and technology, with experience in banking and payments domain.

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to conduct detailed business analysis and communicate effectively with stakeholders at all levels.

Ability to create and maintain relationships with a wide range of stakeholders throughout the firm.

Experience with business modeling tools, methodologies, and business analysis techniques.

Strong project management skills and the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.

Strong understanding of firmwide risk and controls, and global and line of business project and program management standards and methods.

Experience working with high-performing teams in complex program execution, with a strong understanding of Waterfall and Agile methods.

Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization

BS/BA degree or equivalent experience, with expert knowledge in all business processes across an entire line of business, as well as expertise in other lines of business and technology disciplines.