Director, NFC Product - Paze

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 Director, Near Field Communication (NFC) Product is a strategic thinker who applies their deep understanding of NFC technology, market trends, and user needs to lead the NFC strategy and implementation. This role is instrumental in driving the adoption and seamless integration of NFC technology across EWS products and platforms, creating innovative and user-centric experiences.

Essential Functions

• Strategy & Vision: Develops and champions the overall NFC product strategy, aligning with the company's broader product vision and business objectives. Identifies market opportunities and emerging trends in NFC technology and its applications.

• Roadmap & Execution: Defines and manages the product roadmap for NFC features and functionalities, prioritizing initiatives based on market analysis, user feedback, and business impact. Oversees the entire product lifecycle from ideation to launch and post-launch optimization.

• Market Analysis: Conducts thorough market research and competitive analysis to identify customer needs, market trends, and potential partnerships. Stays up to date on the latest advancements in NFC technology and its applications.

• Product Development: Collaborates closely with engineering, design, and marketing teams to define product requirements, prioritize features, and ensure seamless product development and launch. Leads cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality NFC solutions.

• Stakeholder Management: Effectively communicates the NFC product strategy and roadmap to internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership, engineering teams, marketing, sales, and partners. Buildstrong relationships with key stakeholders.

• User Experience: Champions a user-centric approach to NFC product development, ensuring that features and functionalities are intuitive, easy to use, and deliver a compelling user experience. Gathers and analyzes user feedback to continuously improve the product.

• Performance Measurement: Defines and tracks key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success of NFC products and initiatives. Analyzes data and identifies areas for improvement.

• Budget Management: Manages the budget allocated to NFC product development and related activities.

• Team Leadership (if applicable): Leads and mentors a team of product managers or other direct reports, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and high performance.

• Risk Management: Supports the company's commitment to protect the integrity and confidentiality of systems and data.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and/or experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor's degree.

• 10 or more years of NFC related work experience.

• Demonstrated experience in design thinking and agile development process and methodology.

• Demonstrated leadership experience and cross functional collaboration experience.

• Proven experience and passion for building and delivering great products.

• 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.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree.

• Certifications in design thinking and/or agile.

• Prior experience working in payments, financial services or similar regulated industry.

Employees must be able to perform essential functions and physical requirements of position with or without reasonable accommodation.

Physical Requirements

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing, walking, kneeling, and reaching. Must be able to lift 10 pounds occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently. Requires visual acuity and dexterity to view, prepare, and manipulate documents and office equipment including personal computers. Requires the ability to communicate with internal and/or external customers.

The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow instructions and perform other related duties as assigned by their supervisor.

The base pay scale for this position in:

New York, NY in USD per year is: $220,000 - $250,000.

The pay scale will vary for Remote depending upon geographic location.
Additionally, candidates are eligible for a discretionary incentive plan and benefits.

This pay scale is subject to change and is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific candidate, which is always dependent on legitimate factors considered at the time of job offer. Early Warning Services takes into consideration a variety of factors when determining a competitive salary offer, including, but not limited to, the job scope, market rates and geographic location of a position, candidate's education, experience, training, and specialized skills or certification(s) in relation to the job requirements and compared with internal equity (peers). The business actively supports and reviews wage equity to ensure that pay decisions are not based on gender, race, national origin, or any other protected classes.

Some of the Ways We Prioritize Your Health and Happiness

• 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.

AndSOmuch more! We continue to enhance our program, so be sure tocheck our Benefits page here for the latest. Ourteamcan share more during the interview process!

Early Warning Services, LLC ("Early Warning") considers for employment, hires, retains and promotes qualified candidates on the basis of ability, potential, and valid qualifications without regard to race, religious creed, religion, color, sex, sexual orientation, genetic information, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, protected veteran or disability status or any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other bases such as medical condition, marital status or any other factor that is irrelevant to the performance of our employees.

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