VP, Product Management

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.

The Vice President, Product Management leads the vision, strategy, and execution across a portfolio of products aligned to a customer segment. The role will set the tone, performance, and culture for the product organization. Build, align, and motivate cross functional teams to develop a common understanding of the customer’s pain points and the passion to solve issues and develop innovative solutions that delight customers.

• Leadership: Builds internal and external coalitions and alignment on product strategy and execution. Builds and influences cross functional mission‑based teams aligned to solve customer problems. Directly influences executives and customer leadership with strong vision, strategy, and product execution.

• Customer Partnership & Alignment: Passionately holds the team accountable for demonstrating a deep understanding of customer problems and pain points. Focuses on gaining insights into customer empathy to discover and solve unmet opportunities.

• Lead a high performing team: Provides exceptional leadership in developing highly engaged, high performance team that is highly customer focused and market-oriented.

• Driving Team Outcomes: Working closely across marketing, sales, analytics, design and development partners, drives strong go to market strategies to attain product revenue and client adoption targets. Holds teams accountable to internal financial targets customer net promoter and satisfaction goals.

• Performance Focused: Incents and expects top performance. Develops team skills to work independently with a high sense of urgency. An active coach with the ability to make difficult talent decisions.

• Thought Leadership: Possesses a deep understanding of the market, industry, and competitive environment, translating advantages to a winning position. A natural curious learner, able to challenge existing norms and motivate the team to achieve targets. An active participant in helping our customers develop solutions across all disciplines.

• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of bachelor’s degree

• 15 or more years of related work experience

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

• Demonstrated leadership experience and cross functional collaboration experience including direct management experience

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

• Experience in recruiting and developing direct talent

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

• Demonstrated experience driving alignment at the executive and client leadership level

• Excellent listening and execution skills

• Background and drug screen

• 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.

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…