Credit Card Product & Development Partner

Description

Responsible for defining and leading product suite & offer innovation for the consumer credit card business. This role will be integral part of the consumer card business and lead product(s) and offer innovation to ensure and deliver card products that fit the needs of our growing customer base.

Translating customer and market insight, market opportunity, profitability, and competitive dynamics into a clear path to developing best in class product offerings with clearly defined strategy across product value propositions, offers, and capabilities.

This leader will own the product development agenda, leading in a cross-functional leadership role in a highly matrixed environment, providing strategic leadership across key partners within Product, Marketing, Digital, Distribution, Risk Analytics, Finance, Operations, and Technology. The position requires a balance of long-term vision with hands‑on execution rigor to ensure strategy translates to measurable business impact.

• Define and lead the multi-year credit card product offering strategy aligned to enterprise objectives
• Identify market and competitive opportunity to develop competitive product offerings to increase acquisitions and drive sustainable growth
• Optimize performance across existing products with offer and capability enhancements. Define needs, roles, economics and integration across the organization and desired customer journey.
• Define and own the credit card product value position – ensuring it reflects customer needs, market opportunities and business objectives. Current and future state
• Translate strategic intent into actionable roadmaps – clearly articulating priorities and desired outcomes for delivery and partner teams
• Establish expected outcomes and measurement plan aligned to actions

• Proven track record of driving product development initiatives within cards, lending, or consumer financial services; strong consumer card experience desired
• Deep understanding of acquisition and portfolio economics for credit card product, lifecycle management, and customer value creation
• Strategic architect with the ability to operate in the details; ability to equally set strategic vision and execute
• Enterprise leader skilled at influencing across a complex, matrixed environment as an individual contributor
• Builder mentality – comfortable operating in maturing state and overall scaling business driven. Someone who can build processes vs follow
• Demonstrated ability to translate strategy into measurable financial outcomes

• Bachelors Degree
• 10+ years of Credit Card product and/or product marketing experience
• Strong knowledge and mastery of the credit card industry and product economics
• Demonstrated success is building and scaling new credit card products and programs

• MBA
• 5+ years in a product development role across major bank issuers

• Hours per Week: 40
• Work Schedule:
  
  Full Time M-F 8:30-5:30pm; 4 days in office

Citizens, its parent, subsidiaries, and related companies (Citizens) provide equal employment and advancement opportunities to all colleagues and applicants for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, citizenship, physical or mental disability, perceived disability or history or record of a disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, genetic characteristic, marital or domestic partner status, victim of domestic violence, family status/parenthood, medical condition, military or veteran status, national origin, pregnancy/childbirth/lactation, colleague’s or a dependent’s reproductive health decision making, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by federal, state and/or local laws.

At Citizens, we are committed to fostering an inclusive culture that enables all colleagues to bring their best selves to work every day and everyone is expected to be treated with respect and professionalism. Employment decisions are based solely on merit, qualifications, performance and capability.