VP of Product Management

Aptys Solutions is a company that builds systems used by financial institutions to process payments. The VP of Product Management is responsible for managing the company’s strategic product direction, product roadmap, and is the principal point of contact for all facets of Aptys product and services offerings.

Responsibilities:

• Recruit and lead a team of high performing product management personnel, helping to develop their craft and career paths to continuously improve Aptys’ product management team’s impact and productivity, building a culture of excellence
• Develop relationships with customers and ensure Aptys has direct customer input when building our product
• Works effectively with Technical and non-Technical team members and customers
• Shares similar mentality as existing team members toward customer satisfaction and success
• Can effectively facilitate meetings, demonstrate brainstorming / consensus building skills, and interact with executive level project sponsors
• Can be called on to take a lead subject matter role in sales initiatives
• Collaborate effectively with other departments within Aptys, including Sales, Marketing, Engineering, and Support to create, plan, and maintain the Aptys product roadmap
• Clearly communicate goals, roles, responsibilities, and desired outcomes throughout the company
• Build and maintain a rolling twelve-month release plan, manage feature delivery from discovery to validation in production to product end of life
• Recommend appropriate tradeoffs to senior leadership team to optimize time-to-market and ensure that those tradeoffs are effectively communicated to all stakeholders
• Rapidly respond to changing business priorities and requirements and work with the leadership to re-prioritize delivery plans, as required
• Assist the Chief Technology Officer with strategic planning and budgeting activities
• Maintain a strong understanding of strategies, market dynamics and competitive landscape. Analyze industry, competitors, client needs and existing products to develop business requirements
• Articulate product ideas into well-crafted business requirements, functional specifications, and prototype
• Participate in the marketing process to conceptualize and create marketing materials for the target market(s) for the Aptys products
• Respond to product related questions from Development, Customer Support, Sales, and Marketing
• Reinforce continuous innovation and a safe-to-fail environment where it’s okay to take chances, while also mitigating business-threatening risks
• Develop and evaluate new product ideas and opportunities, as well as improve existing products and features
• Build a strong customer engagement model
• Guide creative brief and influencing design to ensure an intuitive and delightful UI/UX
• Develop metrics to assess the success of product development team, initiatives, products, and features and determine necessary enhancements

Requirements:

• 10-15 years of product management leadership experience in the financial services industry
• Demonstrates leadership skills including setting deadlines for Product Management team members, assigns responsibilities and directs work, monitors progress, and follows-up. Provides respectful feedback, escalates where necessary, analyzes/Identifies areas of risk and develops plans to minimize, and seeks opportunities to develop professional skills. Ability to learn quickly and think creatively
• Detail-oriented individual with strong business and technical acumen and the ability to quickly assimilate and apply new concepts, business models, and technologies
• Strong leader with proven ability to conceptualize solutions and deliver features from inception to end of life
• Excellent quantitative, written, and verbal communication skills, including executive level presentations
• Ability to adapt to rapidly changing priorities and to resolve issues and make decisions
• Experience with prototyping, writing functional, business requirements, and deep understanding of the Agile development process
• Values collaboration and seeks opportunities to build relationships. Work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals
• Demonstrated passion for building high-quality user experiences and a commitment to product excellence
• Ability to travel 30%
• Undergraduate degree in either a technical field such as Computer Science or Information Systems or in a business field such as Accounting or Finance or comparable work experience
• Knowledge of payments including real-time payments, cards, digital, and traditional payments
• Knowledge of payments processing
• Working knowledge of product management methodologies
• Experience having scaled a Product Management organization
• Experience hiring, managing, and mentoring high performance organizations