Payments-Rails-Senior Product Associate
About The Position
Unleash your expertise in product development and optimization by leveraging user research, analyzing metrics, and collaborating across one of the world’s most innovative financial organizations. As a Senior Product Associate in Global Payments API Product, you contribute to the team by leveraging your expertise in product development and optimization to make a significant impact, supported by user research and customer feedback to fuel the creation of innovative products and continuously improve existing offerings. Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams and play a crucial role in shaping the future of our products and ongoing success.
Requirements
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience producing clear requirements and stakeholder updates for mixed technical/non-technical audiences
- Experience in product life cycle activities including discovery and requirements definition
- Proficient knowledge of the product development life cycle
- Developing knowledge of data analytics and data literacy
- 3+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area
- Experience working on API-based products or platforms, including translating client needs into well-defined API requirements
- Experience collaborating with engineering on API specifications (e.g., OpenAPI/Swagger) and reviewing changes for completeness and clarity
- Demonstrated ability to write high-quality epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria that engineering teams can execute with minimal rework
- Familiarity with client onboarding / implementation for APIs and partnering with sales, servicing, or implementation teams
- Experience supporting production API products (incident learnings, root-cause themes, operational readiness)
- Experience with developer portals or self-serve enablement patterns (docs, examples, SDKs, sandbox concepts)
- Experience in payments (e.g., RTP, ACH, wires, ISO 20022, payment initiation) or treasury services products
- Leverage AI tools to frame powerful presentations
Responsibilities
- Writes the requirements, epics, and user stories to support product development
- Supports API governance activities including consistency of standards, naming conventions, and backward-compatibility considerations
- Partners with the Product Manager to identify new product opportunities that reflect the needs of our customers and the market through user research and discovery
- Supports the collection of user research, journey mapping, and market analysis to inform the strategic product roadmap and provide insight on potential product features that provide value to customers
- Considers and plans for upstream and downstream implications of new product features on the overall product experience
- Analyzes, tracks, and evaluates product metrics including work to time, cost, and quality targets across the product development life cycle
Benefits
- comprehensive health care coverage
- on-site health and wellness centers
- a retirement savings plan
- backup childcare
- tuition reimbursement
- mental health support
- financial coaching
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
