Sr. Director, Product - Digital Assets

Early Warning® • Chicago, IL

2d • $206,000 - $330,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

The Sr. Director, Product - Stablecoin is responsible for defining and driving the product strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Early Warning’s next-generation cross-border payments platform. This platform will extend the speed, security, and simplicity of Zelle® to international money movement, leveraging stablecoin and digital asset technologies within a trusted, regulated framework. This leader will translate vision into execution—building, aligning, and motivating a cross-functional team that deeply understands customer pain points and regulatory realities, and transforms that understanding into innovative, compliant, and scalable solutions that delight both consumers and financial institutions.

Requirements

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelors degree
• 15 or more years of related work experience
• Familiarity with digital payments, blockchain, stablecoin, or cross-border remittance systems.
• Demonstrated experience in design thinking and agile development process and methodology
• Demonstrated leadership experience and cross functional collaboration experience
• Proven experience in and passion for building and delivering great products
• Experience in recruiting and developing direct talent
• Demonstrated experience in setting a product strategy, roadmap and in meeting product revenue targets.
• Demonstrated experience driving alignment at the executive and client leadership level
• Excellent listening and execution skills
• Background and drug screen

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree
• Experience working with financial regulators or compliance frameworks related to cross-border transactions.
• Certifications in design thinking and/or agile.
• Prior experience working in payments, financial services or similar regulated industry.
• People management experience.

Responsibilities

• Leads the product strategy and execution for Early Warning’s global money movement initiative, ensuring alignment across business, technology, risk, and compliance organizations.
• Builds coalitions internally and externally, fostering alignment across owner banks, regulators, and technology partners.
• May lead a team of direct reports.
• Proactively assesses customer needs across the portfolio of products to maximize customer satisfaction.
• Builds deep empathy for how consumers move money across borders and works to remove friction while maintaining trust and compliance.
• Routinely leverages feedback into insights; and builds products and services that delight and inspire.
• Working closely across marketing, sales, analytics, design and development partners, drive strong go to market strategies to attain product revenue and client adoption targets.
• Owns internal financial targets and customer net promoter and satisfaction goals.
• Recruit, develop and retain top talent for the organization.
• Oversees the integration of strong risk and security controls.
• Ensures compliance to laws and regulations.
• Partners closely with Engineering and Architecture teams to define scalable, secure, and compliant product designs involving digital assets and stablecoin-based settlement.
• Ensures product capabilities meet stringent requirements around AML, KYC, OFAC, data privacy, and network security.
• Maintains awareness of evolving global payments standards, regulatory frameworks, and blockchain ecosystem developments.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Benefits

• Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
• 401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
• Paid Time Off – Unlimited Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
• 12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
• Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Number of Employees: 251-500 employees