Senior Digital Payment Product Owner

About the role

Navy Federal Credit Union currently does not provide sponsorship for this role. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States without the need for current or future sponsorship.

The Senior Digital Payments Product Owner is self-motivated, imaginative, and energetic about building highly competitive non-card payment products. They serve as the product owner for Digital Payments related systems and payment types. They will act as a Digital Payments subject matter expert on digital payment rails and the associated regulatory and network rules. Serve as a senior internal consultant and advisor to executives regarding the execution of the overall payments and payments systems, including the payment platform strategy roadmap designed to modernize and streamline payments processes. They will partner closely with Digital Payments operational units, business project managers and other members of Digital Payments, the SMD system support teams, ETS support teams, and Digital Channels while also partnering with other stakeholder business units to ensure what is delivered fulfills operational needs, strategic needs and drives a superior member experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with a cross-functional team to launch product vision and strategy
• Streamline the execution of program priorities while maintaining the conceptual and technical integrity of the features or components for the team
• Oversee and manage the associated payments platforms, serving as the subject matter expert and business unit point of contact for Digital Payments Leadership
• Translate program vision into incremental delivery
• Develop and maintain horizontal partnerships across the organization to drive the evolution of Digital Payments platforms; advocating for and prioritizing future functionality to ensure internal and member pain points are addressed in conjunction with development of new payment technology
• Maintain an understanding and advanced knowledge of the functions, processes, and systems of other cognizant business units
• Serve as subject matter expert regarding product functions and how they relate to other products and services
• Serve as subject matter expert on Regulatory and network requirements for related digital payment systems
• Partner with technology teams to build and maintain product backlog, refine users stories and ensure prioritization and execution aligns with organizational objectives
• Partner with business analysts to integrate usability studies, user research, and market analysis to into product requirements
• Analyze product usage and other empirical data and how that relates to key member needs to determine changes in product prioritization
• Regularly analyze true needs for product features and constantly push for clear understanding of value
• Proactively work with product team to formulate creative ideas or solutions for potential issues
• Partner with department executives, leadership and other key personnel to develop the long-term strategic direction and technology roadmap
• Guide and analyze benchmarking, trend analysis and other input to drive continuous improvement and elevate service performance
• Bring external perspective and ideas from relevant sources, stay current with technology as well as, government/policy