Senior Technical Product Manager Payments Risk & Platform Modernization

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We are seeking a highly motivated and analytical Product Manager with 5 8+ years of experience in digital product development and platform modernization. This role will lead the migration of risk functionality from legacy authorization systems to modern authorization platforms and network layers, driving innovation, simplification, and performance improvements.

The ideal candidate brings strong product ownership experience in payments, risk systems, or large-scale technology transformation initiatives.

• Define and drive the product vision, strategy, and multi-phase roadmap for risk platform modernization and authorization migration.

• Identify opportunities for system simplification, consolidation, performance optimization, and enhanced network-based risk decisioning.

• Build, manage, and prioritize a well-defined product backlog aligned with business objectives.

• Partner closely with engineering leaders to ensure on-time delivery, high quality, and architectural alignment.

• Coordinate functional testing, performance validation, and end-to-end readiness assessments.

• Facilitate cross-domain alignment on migration strategy, risk controls, customer impact, and timelines.

• Communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans to senior leadership.

• Drive global development initiatives for card applications in partnership with cross-functional teams.

• Leverage qualitative and quantitative data to inform decision-making, experimentation, and product strategy.

• Define and monitor KPIs, tracking, and reporting mechanisms to measure product performance.

• 5 8+ years of Product Management experience.

• Experience in payments, risk systems, platform modernization, or large-scale technology transformation.

• Strong understanding of digital product lifecycle and Agile methodologies (SAFe Agile preferred).

• Experience working with collaboration tools such as Rally, Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence), Slack.

• Strong analytical skills with foundational data expertise (SQL, table building, querying).

• Demonstrated ability to analyze processes and identify creative, incremental improvements.

• Proven ability to adapt in fast-paced, evolving environments.

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.

• Customer-first mindset with passion for building best-in-class digital experiences.

• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills across technical and business teams.

• Self-starter comfortable tackling complex problems and making strategic decisions.