Technical Product Owner - Risk Team

Rainforest•Atlanta, GA

23h

About The Position

Rainforest is an early-stage payments-as-a-service startup focused on enabling small-to-mid sized software platforms to monetize payments for their small business customers. The company provides a solution that makes monetizing payments fair and simple, without adding operational or regulatory burdens or costs. Led by a successful repeat fintech founder and backed by a Top 10 VC firm, Rainforest is looking for new team members to join their journey. Rainforest is seeking an experienced Technical Product Owner who is passionate about bringing payments products to life. This role involves partnering with the Risk engineering team to define and prioritize payment products embedded into client's vertical SaaS software. The ideal candidate enjoys significant autonomy and is excited about building amazing integrations, dashboards, and automations for merchant underwriting, onboarding, and credit/fraud risk monitoring. The role requires someone who enjoys digging into technology, crafting tickets, and is looking to grow and expand their product experience.

Requirements

5+ years as a Product Owner or similar role
Knowledge of payment processing and/or PayFac, especially of payments risk including KYC/KYB, underwriting, transaction monitoring, fraud detection and remediation, and credit risk scoring
Experience with automation for risk, including automated scoring, machine learning, data gathering and pipelines, and remediation
Understanding and experience with Product Management concepts such as roadmaps, product vision and strategy, and product market research
Proven experience in gathering requirements, creating documentation, and user stories as well as a strong understanding and work with agile scrum teams
Ability to visualize and prototype stories and feature sets
Strong organization, written and communication skills
Ease of working within a team structure in a collaborative manner
Strong analytical and quantitative skills
Experience in agile software development with continuous deployment release strategies

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in the areas of Information Science, Computer Science, or related disciplines

Responsibilities

Owning delivery of product initiatives and releases by defining, documenting, and communicating goals, requirements, and constraints
Working with product leadership to translate product strategy into well-defined functional and technical requirements for the engineering team
Functioning within the Experience engineering team, attend agile meetings, help communicate the product stories and requirements, and execute the delivery of a product into production at scale
Writing technical documentation
Helping to manage and prioritize the product backlog
Building strong collaborative working relationships with product and engineering teams, risk operations teams, as well as other Rainforest internal and external stakeholders
Working with our vendors to ensure integrations are accurate and maintained