Sr. Lead Product Manager - Data Platform

Early Warning® • Chicago, IL

19h • Hybrid

About The Position

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses. Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment. Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship. Overall Purpose The Senior Lead Product Manager is responsible for defining and delivering the strategy, roadmap, and platform capabilities for the Zelle Data Platform. The role will gather and structure Zelle data assets in a way that supports analytics, near-real-time use cases, and responsible data activation across the enterprise. This leader will align engineering, data, risk, growth product, and enterprise data stakeholders around reusable data capabilities that create value for internal teams, clients, and the broader Zelle business.

Requirements

• Bachelors degree.
• 9 or more years of related work experience OR post-secondary degree and at least 4 years of related work experience
• 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
• Demonstrated experience in setting a product strategy, roadmap and in meeting product revenue targets
• Excellent listening and execution skills
• Background and drug screen
• Demonstrated experience owning data products or data platform capabilities, such as data lakes, data consortia, identity graphs, marketing data assets, or internal-facing data infrastructure.
• Experience building product strategy and roadmaps for B2B products in regulated industries.
• 5 or more years of related work experience with cloud- and services-oriented data platforms, analytics, model-building, data engineering, or adjacent technical domains.

Nice To Haves

• Master’s degree
• Certifications in design thinking and/or agile.
• Prior experience working in payments, financial services, or similar regulated industry.
• Platform product management, B2B2C product management, or prior data engineering / technical experience.

Responsibilities

• Own the product strategy and roadmap for the Zelle Data Platform, including capabilities that support analytics, near-real-time use cases, and responsible data activation.
• Lead the roadmap for Zelle Data Lake and the integration framework with our enterprise data platform, including delivery of the first version of the Zelle Data Lake.
• Identify, prioritize, and develop new Zelle data assets and interfaces that enable ongoing data asset growth and reuse across the business.
• Collaborate with platform consumers, including developers, data engineers, growth product teams, enterprise data partners, fraud risk management, and clients who need to leverage the platform.
• Establish product direction for data ownership, governance, availability, and quality for Zelle within the enterprise data strategy.
• Translate business, client, risk, and technical needs into clear requirements, user stories, prioritization decisions, and release plans.
• Make principled trade-off decisions between reusable platform capabilities and one-off data solutions, with clear ownership for follow-up and outcomes.
• Define and track platform success metrics such as data asset adoption, availability, quality, latency, consumer onboarding, and business value enabled.
• Support the company’s commitment to risk management and protecting the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Benefits

• 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.
• Flexible 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: Senior