About the position
Unleash your innovative spirit as the Strategic Initiatives Delivery Product Owner within the Acquiring Platform and Rails (APR) team. You'll lead customer-focused development, shape the future with your vision, and stay ahead of market trends. Your role involves balancing the needs of various business segments against limited resources, while promoting a culture of continuous innovation. You'll inspire cross-functional teams to create scalable solutions that enhance competitiveness, profitability, and effectively address customer needs. As a Strategic Initiatives Delivery Product Owner within the Acquiring Platform and Rails (APR) team, you will be responsible for overseeing the development and enhancement of technology solutions which caters to the needs of existing and potential clients. You will keep up with market trends and manage both short-term and long-term investments to boost competitiveness and profitability. Utilizing your advanced skills, you will challenge traditional methods, remove barriers to success, and foster a culture of ongoing innovation. You will balance the needs of different regions, segments, and lines of business against limited resources, while promoting an operating model focused on end-to-end client value. This approach will motivate cross-functional teams to develop scalable solutions that increase operating leverage and effectively meet customer needs.
Responsibilities
- Leads a Strategic Initiative into delivery including development, execution, risk management, in coordination of business growth targets, clients and regional segments.
- Coordinates with global stakeholders inside and outside of the organization to complete detailed designs and arrive into an implementation sized.
- Sequences deliveries against overall solution.
- Delivers a solution that can be tested and scaled globally.
- Successfully transfers solution to platform leaders to operate and scale.
- Leads the relevant PDLC process sections in the creation of solutions, with a focus on disciplined planning and delivery.
- Owns solution performance as aggregated against the activities of the client and regional segments and is responsible for investing in enhancements to achieve business objectives.
- Establishes and monitors key performance indicators (KPIs) to assess the success of global initiatives.
- Provides regular updates and strategic insights to senior management and stakeholders on initiative progress and challenges.
- Facilitates global meetings and presentations to drive consensus and alignment on strategies and solutions, including last mile differences by region.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in product roles within a global matrixed organization.
- Expertise on UX and UI design.
- 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.
- Product management experience, including strategy, market analysis, synthesis of client feedback, needs analysis, communication, reporting, performance monitoring/metrics, risk/compliance management.
- Executive presence and impeccable communication skills – written and oral.
Nice-to-haves
- Experience within merchant acquiring platform and the Payments domain.
- Experience with Card Present Payment solutions and POS Terminals.
- Experience working closely with engineering teams and fluency in technology constructs like APIs integrations.
