Product Manager, Vice President-Purchase and Pay

JPMorganChase•Plano, TX

About The Position

You enjoy shaping the future of product innovation as a core leader, driving value for customers, guiding successful launches, and exceeding expectations. Join our dynamic team and make a meaningful impact by delivering high-quality products that resonate with clients. As a Product Manager in Purchase and Pay, you own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of platform and API products that power regulated financial services at scale.

Requirements

5+ years of product management experience, including technical / platform / API products.
Demonstrated ability to work directly with engineering on architecture, API design, and data contracts.
Strong grasp of the software development lifecycle, agile delivery, and modern engineering practices.
Experience defining requirements and success metrics, and using data to drive decisions.
Excellent written and verbal communication; able to move fluidly between technical detail and executive summary.
Experience delivering in a regulated environment with formal controls and change management.

Nice To Haves

Experience in financial services or other highly regulated industry.
Working familiarity with regulatory and governance frameworks.
Hands-on fluency with modern prototyping and AI-assisted development tools (e.g., API tooling, design-to-code workflows, AI coding assistants) to accelerate discovery and validation.
Technical background or degree (CS, engineering) or equivalent demonstrated technical depth.
Experience with APIs, microservices, and event-driven architectures.

Responsibilities

Own the vision, roadmap, and prioritization for one or more technical / platform products, balancing customer value, business impact, and regulatory obligations.
Translate ambiguous business problems into clearly scoped epics, technical requirements, and measurable success criteria.
Make and defend value based build decisions, sequencing, and trade-off decisions with data.
Partner with engineering on system design, API ,data models, and integration patterns; own the "what" and "why" while engineering owns the "how."
Author and maintain API specifications, data requirements, and interface definitions that downstream teams depend on.
Understand non-functional requirements — latency, availability, scalability, security — and hold the product to them.
Manage releases through the firm's change-management and control gates.
Ensure products meet regulatory, audit and internal control requirements from design through production.
Partner with Risk, Operations and Process Leads to embed requirements early rather than retrofitting them.
Serve as the connective tissue between business stakeholders, engineering, design and data partners.
Communicate roadmap, trade-offs, and status clearly to both technical teams and senior leadership and influence without authority across a large, matrixed organization.