Vice President, POM Product Management

Key responsibilities

• Manage one of the pods within the Enrichment and Qualification group.
• Own and manage the product backlog for the pod, ensuring alignment with platform OKRs and strategic priorities.
• Collaborate with stakeholders across various Business, Operations, Technology, Compliance, and Client Services to define and refine business problems and expected outcomes.
• Translate complex business needs into clear, actionable user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Prioritize backlog items to balance new feature delivery, technical debt, and platform resiliency.
• Lead sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives in partnership with the Scrum Leads and development team.
• Ensure solution designs align with long-term architecture and platform vision.
• Monitor and measure pod’s performance, using data to inform decisions and continuous improvement.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or work experience equivalent
• 10-13 plus years of experience in transaction banking, with at least 5-7 years in a Product Owner, Product Manager, or Business Analyst role
• Proven experience working on payment processing
• Deep knowledge of global sanctions regimes and compliance frameworks (OFAC, UN, EU, etc)
• Familiarity with sanctions-screening platforms, rule engines and ancillary software (e.g. Firco, Bridger, Lexus-Nexus, Orbis)
• Solid understanding of matching logic, fuzzy-matching algorithms, false-positive tuning and data-quality challenges
• Expertise in regulatory-change management and translating new or amended rules into system requirements
• Ability to define and interpret key performance metrics (hit-rates, false-positive ratios, throughput)
• Background in banking/financial-services operations or technology delivery in a regulated environment
• Experience as a Product Owner in Agile/Scrum environments, with a solid grasp of Agile principles, ceremonies and backlog prioritization/management and sprint execution
• Experience writing clear and actionable user stories, defining acceptance criteria, and managing a product backlog
• Strong stakeholder management skills — capable of balancing the needs of operations, compliance, IT, and clients
• Proven stakeholder management—working effectively with Compliance, Legal, Risk, Operations, Technology and external vendors
• Experience collaborating with development teams, testers, and business SMEs to deliver high-quality solutions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with ability to work cross-functionally across business and technical teams
• Ability to analyze trends and use data to inform product decisions and drive operational efficiency
• Comfortable using data to drive prioritization and continuous improvement
• Proficiency with tools like JIRA, Confluence, Excel, and data visualization tools
• Knowledge of LexisNexis Bridger and Fircosoft (or comparable systems) are a plus

Qualifications

• Strong communication and documentation skills — able to translate complex payment processes into business and technical requirements
• High attention to detail, especially in compliance- and risk-sensitive environments
• Strong problem-solving mindset and ability to work independently in a fast-paced, high-pressure setting
• Comfortable working in a global, cross-functional team and across different time zones