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Who we are:
Welcoming, collaborative and having the opportunity to make an impact - is how our employees describe working here. Galileo is a financial technology company that provides innovative and revolutionary software products and services that power some of the world's largest Fintechs. We are the only payments innovator that applies tech and engineering capabilities to empower Fintechs and financial institutions to unleash their full creativity to achieve their most inspired goals. Galileo leads its industry with superior fraud detection, security, decision-making analytics and regulatory compliance functionality combined with customized, responsive and flexible programs to accelerate the success of all payments companies and solve tomorrow's payments challenges today. We hire energetic and creative employees while providing them the opportunity to excel in their careers and make a difference for our clients. Learn more about us and why we work here at https://www.galileo-ft.com/working-at-galileo.
The role:
We are seeking a dynamic and experienced Payments Product Manager to join our payments product team. The ideal candidate will have deep expertise in payments and more specifically experience working with bank rails payment rails i.e ACH, FedWires, RTP and FedNow . Experience in fintech environments is highly desirable. The Payments Product Manager will be responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of our payment products, ensuring they meet market demands and regulatory requirements while driving growth and innovation for us and our clients.
We are on a journey to create a cloud-powered financial platform that democratizes access to financial services for our clients and their customers. You will help shape our current product investments to create a more modern payment hub cloud based offering that helps solve the payment needs of our B2C and B2B clients and help them innovate.
To be successful, you’ll need to bridge technical and business worlds, engaging with matrixed teams including engineering, design, sales, operations, finance, legal, risk, compliance, and other product managers. You'll define and prioritize features, and drive internal stakeholder and external partner engagements necessary for the delivery of products and solutions that enable our clients to power the next generation of companies.
In this role you will be expected to independently interface and drive discussions and decisions with stakeholders from product, engineering, various business units and operations.
What you’ll do:
- Lead the development and enhancement of payment products across multiple bank rails (ACH, Wires, RTP & FedNow) aligned with the strategy. You will drive multiple key results or a broader initiative / objective influencing payments product strategy and direction across multi-quarter outlook.
- Drive capabilities & stakeholder buy-in that likely span beyond immediate team and effectively navigate across multiple organizations & external partners
- Synthesize inputs and data from multiple sources (data analysis, market research, client insights, finance, etc) to build strategic rationale that advocates for long term customer value.
- Deliver oral and written artifacts that drive clarity to product execution (e.g. through clear articulation of product strategy, roadmaps, product requirements, status and analytics reports etc) while applying appropriate mediums that reflect urgency and audience needs (e.g. async slacks, google docs, decks, and emails vs synchronous meetings).
- Work with internal project stakeholders from marketing, sales, operations to translate customer needs into meaningful products
- Lead engagements with external stakeholders including financial institutions, fintech clients and technology partners to advance product improvements and innovative solutions
- Communicate product vision, roadmaps, and progress to senior management and other key stakeholders.
- Own the product life cycle from business strategy and ideation to Go-to-Market (e.g. drives long term product planning, end-to-end execution, and appropriate roadmap rebasing against deliverables) and drive accountability to execution timelines and deliverables by actively managing backlog with immediate team partners, maintaining x-functional stakeholder alignment, and setting expectations and leading change management
- Monitor product performance metrics, user adoption, and customer satisfaction.
- Identify and implement continuous improvements to optimize product performance and user experience.
What you’ll need:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field and 8+ years of related experience OR Master’s degree and 6+ years of related experience
- Deep expertise in one or more bank rails i.e. ACH , FedWire, RTP and FedNow. Understanding of AFT/OCTs is a plus.
- Proven track record of successfully managing and launching payment products.
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with diverse teams.
- Strong understanding of fintech ecosystems and experience working in fintech environments.
- Ability to work with remote teams
- Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, dynamic environment and manage multiple priorities.
Galileo Financial Technologies provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law.
The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics.
Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Galileo is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, Galileo offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email [email protected].
Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time.
Internal Employees
If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.
