VP, Data Intelligence

Description

Lead the Way to Intelligent Banking with Us!

You might not think about what happens behind the scenes when you check your bank balance or deposit a check from your phone, but we do. Every day.

Kinective empowers banks and credit unions to move beyond keeping up with technology to shaping the future of banking. Our platform seamlessly connects the right tools, delivers real-time data, and drives smarter operations for more than 4,000 financial institutions nationwide. We are a fast-growing team built on individual ownership, company-wide collaboration, and setting industry-leading standards. Here, new ideas are encouraged, candid feedback is welcomed, and your growth truly matters as much as the company’s. At Kinective, [TA3.1]we are leading the way to intelligent banking together and enjoying the journey along the way.

Why This Role Matters

Every role at Kinective exists to move the needle for our clients, partners, and the financial institutions we serve. As the VP of Product, Data Intelligence, you will own the strategic direction, growth, and market success of Kinective’s Data Intelligence product line, enabling banks and credit unions to turn fragmented data into actionable intelligence and measurable business outcomes.

You will take ownership of the Data Intelligence portfolio and partner with Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Services, Platform, and executive leadership to turn priorities into scalable results that drive success for both Kinective and our clients.

What you’ll own

Product Line Strategy & Growth Leadership

• Own the business and product direction for Data Intelligence (DI), with accountability for stabilizing the product line, accelerating growth, and establishing DI as a focused strategic business within Kinective.
• Define and lead the 12–18-month Data Intelligence strategy and roadmap, ensuring priorities reflect market opportunity, customer needs, competitive differentiation, pricing approaches, and Kinective’s broader solution strategy.
• Make strategic investment and prioritization decisions that strengthen DI’s role in Kinective’s long-term growth and differentiated market position.

Portfolio, Packaging & Commercialization

• Shape DI into a set of defined, repeatable, and scalable product and solution offers aligned to Kinective’s core ICPs, personas, and solution bundles rather than one-off capabilities.
• Own product packaging, commercialization, and positioning decisions that determine how DI is sold as modular capabilities, bundled solutions, or broader platform value.
• Translate financial institution pain points, market trends, and product gaps into clear product investment choices, use-case commercialization, and revenue-aligned growth plans.

Platform Direction & Market Relevance

• Drive the transition of DI from reporting and analytics point value toward a differentiated data activation platform that connects data, surfaces intelligence, and triggers action inside financial institutions.
• Guide roadmap direction across platform, analytics, workflow, AI, integration, and bundle-enabling capabilities within the DI portfolio.
• Ensure the platform continues to solve high-value financial institution use cases across lending, financial reporting, marketing automation, CRM and Member 360, performance management, and operational efficiency.

Cross-Functional Orchestration & Execution Leadership

• Lead cross-functional orchestration across Product, Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Services, Platform, AI, and executive leadership, so DI priorities are commercially viable, operationally ready, and consistently executed.
• Provide executive oversight of DI execution through the Director of DI and team, including operating cadence, KPI tracking, escalation management, and metrics reporting to executive leadership.
• Prioritize customer and market problems over custom one-off requests, with accountability for scalable outcomes and measurable business impact.

Category Leadership & Strategic Influence

• Serve as the executive voice of the DI market problem and opportunity, articulating why Kinective is positioned to win in data intelligence for community financial institutions.
• Act as a thought leader internally and externally, helping align stakeholders around market category, differentiated value, and the strategic role of DI within Kinective’s broader platform and solution strategy.
• Partner with other product lines to enable cross-functional solution bundles that depend on DI capabilities and data-driven functionality.

How We’ll Measure Success 

• Stabilizing and growing the Data Intelligence product line through clear strategy, market-aligned roadmap decisions, and stronger commercial performance that meet or exceed our revenue and growth targets.
• Owning portfolio decisions, operating rhythms, and cross-functional alignment that improve execution quality and make DI easier to scale with measured MBOs to validate success.
• Working effectively with Engineering, Sales, Marketing, Services, Platform, and executive leadership to translate priorities into measurable business outcomes.
• Improving how DI is positioned, packaged, and delivered so Kinective can solve higher-value customer problems with scalable, repeatable solutions.
• Raising the strategic visibility and market relevance of DI within Kinective and across the financial institution landscape.[KS4.1][AC4.2]

Success here isn’t about checking boxes – it’s about propelling Kinective’s mission to lead the way to intelligent banking. You must bring excellence to your craft, balance resourcefulness with respect, share and celebrate unique expertise and diverse perspectives, and continuously raise the bar as we innovate and grow.

Requirements

Necessary Qualifications & Competencies

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.
• 10+ years of product management or product leadership experience, including significant ownership of strategy, roadmap, and commercial outcomes.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing senior product talent and driving execution through managers, directors, or other product leaders.
• Significant experience in fintech, banking, data platforms, analytics, workflow software, or adjacent B2B SaaS categories.
• Strong and broad financial institution domain fluency, especially around banking operations, growth, reporting, and data challenges faced by banks and credit unions.
• Demonstrated ability to translate fragmented data and customer problems into clear product strategy, scalable offers, and prioritized investment decisions.
• Credibility with technical, commercial, and executive stakeholders, including the ability to align Engineering, Product, Sales, Marketing, and Services in one coherent direction.
• Strong understanding of modern data and analytics concepts such as integrations, data platforms, dashboards, workflows, predictive capabilities, and operational activation, without needing to be a pure data architect.
• Experience operating in regulated or trust-sensitive environments where compliance, risk, data quality, and reliability must be balanced with innovation and growth.
• Ability to relate to a variety of banking personas, from executive leaders to operational and lending leaders, and to technical leaders inside Kinective, at partners, and at financial institutions.
• Evidence of being a single-threaded owner who can develop deep category conviction, represent the business internally, and become the go-to leader for the DI product line.

Pay, Benefits & Total Rewards

$180,000 – $200,000 with a 30% bonus potential

15%-20% Travel Required

The salary range listed reflects the minimum and maximum for this role. Individual compensation is based on experience, qualifications, job-related skills, location, and internal equity, and most offers are not made at the top of the range.

Base pay is one part of Kinective’s Total Rewards package. Depending on the role, employees may also be eligible for bonuses, commissions, or equity. All employees have access to a competitive benefits package designed to support health, well-being, and financial security, including:

• Comprehensive health coverage (medical, dental, vision, prescriptions, life & disability)
• Flexible PTO, 11 company holidays, and generous parental and caregiver leave
• An immediately vested 401(k) with company contributions
• Wellness resources and professional development opportunities

If you’ve made it this far, we’d love to hear from you. Click Apply to start the conversation, even if you’re not sure you check every box. Learn more about Kinective at www.kinective.io.

Please note that this role does not currently offer sponsorship opportunities.