Real Time Payments - Strategy Product Director - Executive Director

Ignite your passion for product innovation by leading customer-centric development, inspiring solutions, and shaping the future with your strategic vision and influence.

As a Product Director in Real Time Payments, you lead innovation through the development of products and features that delight customers. As a leader on the team, you leverage your advanced capabilities to challenge traditional approaches, remove barriers to success, and foster a culture of continuous innovation that helps inspire cross-functional teams create groundbreaking solutions that address customer needs.

Job responsibilities

• Oversees the product roadmap, vision, development, execution, risk management, and business growth targets
• Leads the entire product life cycle through planning, execution, and future development by continuously adapting, developing new products and methodologies, managing risks, and achieving business targets like cost, features, reusability, and reliability to support growth
• Coaches and mentors the product team on best practices, such as solution generation, market research, storyboarding, mind-mapping, prototyping methods, product adoption strategies, and product delivery, enabling them to effectively deliver on objectives
• Owns product performance and is accountable for investing in enhancements to achieve business objectives
• Monitors market trends, conducts competitive analysis, and identifies opportunities for product differentiation
• Develop high quality and thoughtful strategy artifacts covering all aspects of our product, solution, channels, markets to a global leadership audience. Develop initiatives that help establish JP Morgan thought leadership in real time payments
• Help influence industry developments in real time payments, domestically and globally. Be agile and have a finger on the pulse of market developments and factors impacting real time payments globally. Develop a team point of view on industry developments globally and invite discussion and debate to fine tune our position.
• Work well with an international peer group, operating with a sense of urgency, in a highly collaborative manner.
• Manage multiple work streams and priorities efficiently, in a fast paced environment; and at the same time be forward looking on longer term strategic initiatives that are needed.
• Connect the dots and guide various aspects of the solution including market strategy, channel strategy, product roadmap, and tech strategy, commercialization, and pricing in well-articulated and insightful strategy materials. Maintain a health of the organization tracking and metrics that track our progress against plans and milestones in line with our strategy. Raise risks and impacts to plan quickly and efficiently.
• Proactively educate the Treasury Services organization on market developments and partner opportunities. Conduct key capability gap analysis and provide recommendation for buy/build/partner decision. Analyze FinTech's to identify, engage and manage a portfolio of external partners with emerging technology and capabilities related to the growth agenda

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 8+ years of experience or equivalent expertise delivering products, projects, or technology applications
• Extensive knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics
• Proven ability to influence the adoption of key product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
• Experience driving change within organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions
• Minimum 8+ years of work experience in a reputed consulting or other strategy focused position
• Experience working in various facets of the financial industry including payments, banking with deep knowledge in current and future payments trends
• Adept at creating business cases, ROI materials, high quality strategy materials
• Learn new product and business knowledge in order to break down analyses and derive insights to provide key suggestions for stakeholders
• Drive use case analyses and analytics including financial projection and sizing for new market opportunities from changing payments landscape
• Experience working closely with cross functional teams (e.g., Products, Sales, Tech, Ops, Legal, industry advocacy, CIB strategy etc.) build relationships with and influence colleagues and line of business functions.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Recognized thought leader within a related field
• Experience ensuring partner implementations are on track and delivering against plan
• Willingness to travel as needed to participate in key client and partner discussions.
• MBA preferred

About Us
JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set, and location. For those in eligible roles, we offer discretionary incentive compensation which may be awarded in recognition of firm performance and individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

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