Product Manager - Payments (Colombia)

Job Title: Product Manager - Payments

Location: Remote / Colombia

Hiring Manager: Logan Tollefson

About Sezzle:

Sezzle is a cutting-edge fintech company dedicated to financially empowering the next generation. With only one in three millennials owning a credit card and the majority lacking their desired credit scores, Sezzle addresses these challenges through a payment platform that offers interest-free installment plans at online stores. By increasing consumers' purchasing power, Sezzle drives sales and basket sizes for thousands of eCommerce merchants that it partners with.

About the Role: 

We are seeking a talented and motivated Product Manager of Payments who is best in class with a high IQ plus a high EQ. This role presents an exciting opportunity to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment within a rapidly growing team, with abundant prospects for career advancement.

As a Product Manager, you will aid in the coordination, organization, and overall improvement of Sezzle’s payments system, a key company operation. You will work across the Product, Engineering, and Support teams to coordinate Payments initiatives to Sezzle’s strategic vision. This role works cross-functionally between many teams to support the operations of Sezzle’s Payment processing system. 

We are seeking a talented, motivated, and passionate individual to join our team. We desire candidates who are self-directed and able to adapt to frequently changing roles. We are looking for a data-oriented individual as this role will require running & analyzing reports as well as running SQL queries. As a Sezzler, you may be asked to wear many hats and contribute across our entire product experience! If you are ready to join a company that moves quickly and where you can make a large impact to the company goals, you've found the right place! 

What You'll Do:

• Work directly with the Payments and Subscription Product Manager, other Product team members, and the Payments Engineering team to execute key initiatives within the Payments space.
• Manage the engineering backlog and help prioritize work to be done based on quarterly organizational goals.
• Improve, manage, and document payment processing processes to optimize processing costs, reduce loss rates, and enhance customer payment method management. 
• Explore and propose new revenue opportunities related to the subscription offerings available within the Sezzle ecosystem.
• Present insights and monthly updates that can drive key business decisions to the Product and Engineering teams.
• Use product and user behavior data to make informed decisions and innovatively problem-solve.
• Monitor top KPI dashboards daily to make sure that our payment processing is working as expected
• Efficiently prioritize daily tasks based on leadership KPIs and weekly goals. 
• Adapt quickly to changes in requirements and new priorities in a dynamic work environment.

What We Look For:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science, or a related field. 
• Proven experience as a Product Manager, preferably in the payments or fintech industry. 
• Strong understanding of payment systems, technologies, and industry trends. 
• Excellent project management skills with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Experience with Jira is a plus.
• GPA of 4.2 or higher

Preferred Knowledge and Skills: 

• Data and analytics background preferred. 
• Proficient in SQL. 
• Experienced with Excel and able to interpret large sets of data. 
• Possess the ability to be a self-starter. You see a problem, and you…

1. Assess the situation and any variables. 
2. Work quickly and accurately to resolve the problem. 
3. Identify areas where processes can be defined or improved. 
4. Take the initiative and work autonomously to implement improvements. 
5. Ability to react to a rapidly changing organization with a true start-up mentality. 
6. Has a team-oriented mindset of sharing the load of work but is also willing to step-up when resources are minimized. 

Our ideal candidate is an excellent communicator, showing patience and eagerness to learn.

About You:

• You have relentlessly high standards - many people may think your standards are unreasonably high. You are continually raising the bar and driving those around you to deliver great results. You make sure that defects do not get sent down the line and that problems are fixed so they stay fixed.
• You’re not bound by convention - your success—and much of the fun—lies in developing new ways to do things
• You need action - speed matters in business. Many decisions and actions are reversible and do not need extensive study. We value calculated risk-taking.
• You earn trust - you listen attentively, speak candidly, and treat others respectfully.
• You have backbone; disagree, then commit - you can respectfully challenge decisions when you disagree, even when doing so is uncomfortable or exhausting. You have conviction and are tenacious. You do not compromise for the sake of social cohesion. Once a decision is determined, you commit wholly.
• You deliver results - you focus on the key inputs and deliver them with the right quality and in a timely fashion. Despite setbacks, you rise to the occasion and never settle.

What Makes Working at Sezzle Awesome:

At Sezzle, we are more than just brilliant engineers, passionate data enthusiasts, out-of-the-box thinkers, and determined innovators. We believe in surrounding ourselves with only the best and the brightest individuals. Our culture is not defined by a certain set of perks designed to give the illusion of the traditional startup culture, but rather, it is the visible example living in every employee that we hire. 

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