Group Product Manager

Summary

Join AffiniPay, a leading fintech company, as a Group Product Manager! Lead 1-2 product managers in exploring new market opportunities and delivering key product initiatives. You will balance discovering new opportunities with leading development and product teams to create exceptional user experiences. This role requires strategic leadership, mentoring, and collaboration with cross-functional teams. You will leverage data analysis to inform product vision, strategy, and roadmaps. Success hinges on influencing stakeholders, aligning teams around outcomes, and defining go-to-market strategies.

Requirements

• You have 7-10 years of taking payments and/or B2B SaaS products to market using agile, user-centered design and lean customer discovery methodologies
• 1-2 years experience managing and mentoring product managers
• Experience identifying and leading key strategic products to market in technology companies
• A strong technical background with significant hands-on experience collaboratively building technology products with UX designers and Engineers
• A keen sense of business with the ability to understand market trends and customers needs, build business cases to justify your analysis, and design and prioritize products and features to fit the market needs and deliver long-term growth
• Proven experience leading medium to large sized cross-functional teams in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

• Mentor, develop, hire and lead a team of product managers to maximize impact and achieve overall goals
• Develop a deep understanding of our market and customers by sythesizing a variety of quantitative and qualitative data across a wide range of use cases and segments
• Become the “go-to” person for competitor insights related to your product(s) has a clear perspective on how to create competitive advantage
• Leverage deep understanding to create a top class vision, strategy and roadmap for new products that expand our addressable markets on highly ambiguous initiatives
• Effectively infleunce, negotiate and articulate strategy / rationale with AffiniPay stakeholders at all levels to get alignment and rally people around your vision
• Expertly align your product team and cross-functional leaders around outcomes to ensure we reach our short and long-term goals
• Defines and shapes our GTM processes and strategies via strong collaboration with Product Marketing and business partners to maximize business outcomes and customer value
• Promote and influence the overall product vision and strategy across the organization
• Mentor more junior product managers in product best practices
• Demonstrate mastery of your product(s) and proficiency in all products in the AffiniPay portfolio
• Other Duties as assigned

Preferred Qualifications

• Customer-focus : Relentless focus on understanding & delighting our customers
• Outstanding communication skills : You can communicate clearly, concisely and persuasively with technical and non-technical stakeholders at different levels, including Executives, to build organizational alignment around your vision
• Humble: You know your strengths and weaknesses and actively seek feedback with a growth mindset to identify ways to improve and use your strengths to your advantage
• Bias to action : You are a very decisive self-starter who thrives in ambiguity and will take calculated risks to move quickly in the face of uncertainty. When needed, you are able to make tough calls with the information at hand
• Collaborative : You build strong relationships with teammates, customers, and partners to foster a collaborative team environment while maintaining a sense of ownership of product outcomes
• Analytical : You develop clear, testable hypotheses and can comfortably integrate quantitative and qualitative data into your thinking. You perform rigorous analysis when needed but maintain a sense of urgency and aren’t afraid to fail quickly and learn
• Persistent: Relentless drive to achieve business outcomes, overcoming all obstacles
• Business acumen : You are extremely comfortable prioritizing customer needs in the context of business objectives
• Strategic : The demonstrated ability to identify, create and deliver on long-term plans for growth

Benefits

• All employees receive fully covered medical, dental and vision coverage - Choose from our 2 available health plans based on what fits you and/or your family!
• Have some fur babies? - We offer them insurance too!
• RELAX and enjoy your time away with our flexible paid time off policy!
• We will help you plan for your future - 401K, or RRSP if in Canada, with a company match
• Competitive compensation packages that include mid-year and end-of-year bonuses and equity options for all full-time employees
• Health Wellness Program that includes nutrition consultations, mental health apps, and access to discounted memberships
• Have plans to grow your family? - Parental resources, including 16 weeks of paid time off for primary caregivers
• Professional development opportunities including mentorships, leadership programs and our AffiniPayU courses
• We believe it is important to give back with our Matching Gift Program and organized activities focused on donations, volunteerism and supporting the local communities throughout the country
• D&I initiatives provide educational opportunities regarding multicultural issues, tolerance, and celebrating diversity among our entire staff
• An incredible, in-office experience at our headquarters in Austin and San Diego including free lunch delivery, a fully stocked kitchen, and some “sweet” surprises for those afternoon pick-me-ups