Vice President Product Manager - New Banking Architecture Delivery Platform

JPMorgan Chase & Co. • Palo Alto, CA

4h

About The Position

You enjoy shaping the future of product innovation as a core leader, driving
value for customers, guiding successful launches, and exceeding expectations.
Join our dynamic team and make a meaningful impact by delivering high-quality
products that resonate with clients. Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of
Java-centric platform/framework capabilities for developers and solution
architects. Define enforceable API and framework standards,
performance/resiliency targets, and developer experience for Spring-based
microservices and GraphQL APIs. Operate in ambiguity, make principled tradeoffs,
and produce crisp technical artifacts that unblock engineering.
As a Product Manager in New Banking Architecture Delivery Platform Team, you are
an integral part of the team that innovates new product offerings and leads the
end-to-end product life cycle. As a core leader, you are responsible for acting
as the voice of the customer and developing profitable products that provide
customer value. Utilizing your deep understanding of how to get a product off
the ground, you guide the successful launch of products, gather crucial
feedback, and ensure top-tier client experiences. With a strong commitment to
scalability, resiliency, and stability, you collaborate closely with
cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that exceed customer
expectations.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area
• Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics
• Proven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Experience in product management or a relevant domain area
• 5+ years in technical product management or engineering leadership; prior Java developer experience
• Hands-on experience with: Java 17+, Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, WebFlux vs. MVC, Resilience4j, Spring Data JPA/R2DBC. Kafka: partitions/consumer groups, compaction/retention, schema evolution, idempotency, lag management. GraphQL: schema design/federation, persisted queries, query limits, N+1 mitigation (DataLoader).
• Proven delivery of API/schema governance, versioning/deprecation, and CI policy gates.
• Strong SRE practices: SLIs/SLOs, error budgets, OpenTelemetry, data-driven post-incident improvements.
• Developer productivity: time-to-first-hello-world, framework adoption, migration cycle time.
• Reliability/performance: SLO attainment, p95/p99 latency, error budget burn, Kafka consumer lag, GraphQL query cost/failure rates. Governance: contract test coverage, schema validation pass rate, deprecations completed within SLA

Nice To Haves

• Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization

Responsibilities

• Develops a product strategy and product vision that delivers value to customers
• Manages discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap
• Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition
• Builds the framework and tracks the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliability
• Set and evolve baselines for Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, WebFlux vs. MVC, GraphQL schema conventions
• Define and govern REST (OpenAPI-first, contract tests, versioning/deprecation SLAs) and GraphQL (SDL-first, schema registry/checks, persisted queries, deprecation policy).
• Define SLIs/SLOs and enforce error budgets, timeouts, retries with backoff/jitter, circuit breakers, bulkheads. Observability with OpenTelemetry (traces/metrics/logs), RED/USE dashboards; track p95/p99 latency and MTTR. Topic naming/versioning, partition/replica policy, compaction/retention, schema evolution (Avro/Protobuf), idempotency and ordering guidance.
• Define Security OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, JWT claim standards, resolver-level auth for GraphQL; secrets management integration.
• Prioritize by cost of delay, reliability risk, developer productivity impact, and TCO; document ADRs for major choices.

Benefits

• We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of 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.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed