Are you passionate about bringing innovative payment products to market through hands-on execution? Join PWLI team and make a direct impact by launching products that relentlessly focus on emerging customer and merchant problems while ensuring products are launched on time and operate reliably at scale.
As a Senior Associate, Product Management within the Payments team, you will play a pivotal role in delivering high-quality payment solutions by guiding cross-functional teams through the full product lifecycle. You will conceptualize the next generation of payment platforms, drive innovative thinking, and build seamless customer journeys that are the foundation of digital payment experiences. We are looking for product owners who lead with product thinking and aren’t afraid to dive into technical detail, who can take responsibility for driving development, monitoring performance and scaling to millions of customers while fostering a culture of innovation, learning and collaboration.
As a Senior Associate on payments team with advanced technical capabilities, you leverage your product management skills to innovate on translating business opportunities into products adopted by customers at scale. Payments team within PWLI is responsible for delivering seamless payment experience across digital commerce experiences.
Job responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product, Technology, Design and Analytics partners to develop and deliver product and platform strategies from 0-1
• Own and manage the product delivery lifecycle from ideation to production.
• Define product goals, with clear requirements and KPIs that can be converted into user stories and process flows for the engineering development team and other stakeholders
• Work closely with developers and testers to ensure the team correctly translates requirements into working technical designs, test plans and scripts to serve customer needs
• Conduct pre-release reviews which could include regression testing and quality assurance to certify the release as production ready
• Manage product backlog creation and grooming, support agile product delivery, launch and go to market for product, production support, issue & defect resolution and prioritization
• Monitor performance against goals, identify and scope implementation paths for needed enhancements, and create remediation plans when needed
• Collaborate with a team of cross-functional partners to ensure a strong risk and controls environment (e.g., Risk, Controls, Legal, Compliance)

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 3+ years of experience in financial services and/or product management
• Experience enabling change within large, highly matrixed organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions, especially engineering, architecture, design and other product peers
• Passion for understanding customer needs and demonstrated ability to build scalable platforms  
• Ability to think strategically while maintaining relentless attention to the details required to ensure successful execution
• Outstanding verbal and written communication  
• Strong knowledge of APIs, engineering practices, and the product development lifecycle using Agile methodologies
• Proven track record of managing risk and controls
• Bachelors or Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration or comparable field of study

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills:

• Strong preference for experience in online payments including but not limited to digital wallets, payment processing, money movement, and adjacent products.
• Candidates with Fintech background or payment platform experience shall be preferred