Senior Lead Product Manager - Checkout

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose

The Senior Lead Product Manager is the champion responsible for evaluating and determining the product(s) and/or features to be built and delivered to our customers.  The role will build, align, and motivate a cross functional team to develop a common understanding of the customers’ pain points and the passion to solve issues and develop innovative solutions that delight customers. The role may lead multiple products.

Essential Functions

• Visionary and Strategist: Builds the right cross-functional team to obtain a common understanding of customer pain points, empathy and excitement for solving customer issues and driving product revenue.  Articulates product strategy and vision across the enterprise across multiple products.

• Customer Passion and Advocacy: Brings the customer viewpoint to the product design process with a demonstrated competency to actively listen to customer feedback across all touchpoints and channels; to routinely leverage this feedback into insights; and to build products and services that delight and inspire. 

• Creative Problem Solver: Works closely with marketing, research, analytics, design and development partners, uses technical savvy and customer insights to develop real world solutions working in a highly collaborative environment. Uses insights about the market and industry to drive development of value-added solutions for customers.

• Commitment to Risk Management: Oversees the integration of strong risk and security controls. Ensures compliance to laws and regulations.

• Technical Understanding:  Able and adept at working directly with the technologists to deliver market solutions. Clearly defines requirements, grooms user stories, motivates technical teams and partners with technology closely

Area of Specialty: Checkout

• Defines the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Paze Checkout experiences, creating seamless embedded-commerce experiences that improve consumer adoption, checkout conversion, and transaction growth across merchant and partner channels.

• Leads development and integration of checkout experiences, partnering with engineering, architecture, merchants, issuers, and technology providers to deliver scalable, reliable, and developer-friendly solutions.

• Uses qualitative and quantitative insights, including user interviews, usability testing, funnel analysis, experimentation, and partner feedback, to identify friction, validate solutions, and make data-driven prioritization decisions.

• Balances customer experience, conversion, security, fraud, regulatory, and operational considerations; defines success metrics and makes explicit risk-reward tradeoffs when developing authentication, payment, and issuer-specific capabilities.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelors degree.

• Typically, 12 or more years of progressive related work experience

• Demonstrated experience in design thinking and agile development process and methodology

• Demonstrated leadership experience and cross functional collaboration experience

• Proven experience in and passion for building and delivering great products

• Demonstrated experience in setting a product strategy, roadmap and in meeting product revenue targets

• Excellent listening and execution skills

• Background and drug screen

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree

• Certifications in design thinking and/or agile.

• Prior experience working in payments, financial services or similar regulated industry.

• People management experience.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position.

Physical Requirements

Early Warning works together in a highly collaborative office environment.  As such, working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

Employee must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States at the date of hire.

Some of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness 

•  Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.

• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.

• Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.

• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave

• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

And SO much more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure to check our Benefits page here for the latest. Our team can share more during the interview process!

Early Warning Services, LLC (“Early Warning”) considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees. 

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