Principal Product Manager

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Who we are:

Welcoming, collaborative and having the opportunity to make an impact - is how our employees describe working here.  Galileo is a financial technology company that provides innovative and revolutionary software products and services that power some of the world's largest Fintechs. We are the only payments innovator that applies tech and engineering capabilities to empower Fintechs and financial institutions to unleash their full creativity to achieve their most inspired goals. Galileo leads its industry with superior fraud detection, security, decision-making analytics and regulatory compliance functionality combined with customized, responsive and flexible programs to accelerate the success of all payments companies and solve tomorrow's payments challenges today. We hire energetic and creative employees while providing them the opportunity to excel in their careers and make a difference for our clients. Learn more about us and why we work here at https://www.galileo-ft.com/working-at-galileo.

The role:

As a Principal Product Manager within the financial products team, you will own defining, executing, and delivering a product roadmap for our core financial products (Cards, DDA Accounts, etc.), money movement capabilities (ACH, RTP, Wires, Mobile Remote Deposit Capture, etc.), and more. We are on a journey to create a cloud-powered financial platform that democratizes access to financial services for our clients and their customers. You will help shape our current product investments to create a more modern and cloud based offering that helps solve the pain points of our B2C and B2B clients and help them innovate. 

To be successful, you’ll need to bridge technical and business worlds, engaging with matrixed teams including engineering, design, sales, operations, finance, legal, risk, compliance, and other product managers. You'll define and prioritize features, and drive internal stakeholder and external partner engagements necessary for the delivery of products and solutions that enable our clients to power the next generation of companies.

This is a high visibility role and you will often interact with C-level executives inside and outside Galileo. In this role you will be expected to independently interface and drive discussions and decisions with leaders from product, engineering, various business units and operations.

What you’ll do:

• Build a strategy to drive growth of our financial products and own a multi-year product roadmap to deliver on that growth
• Understand complex business and operational requirements and break them down into epics and user stories for engineering teams
• Prioritize and drive product backlogs with your dedicated and dependent engineering teams
• Ensure appropriate data is collected and analytics tools are instrumented for all products in your portfolio to drive deep understanding, innovation, and effective product plans
• Implement an extensive framework of experimentation in order to drive customer impact
• Collaborate with product and engineering leaders across business units to drive synergies across common client use cases and requirements
• Work with internal project stakeholders from marketing, sales, operations, community, and executive management to translate customer needs into meaningful products
• Drive improvements to product management processes, frameworks, team structure, and culture
• Build business cases in support of new ideas and get cross-functional support for your proposals
• Lead engagements with external partners and clients to advance product improvements and innovative solutions
• Lead in a fast-paced, agile, multi-country, dynamic environment

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher with a technical discipline, or equivalent experience
• Advanced degree or MBA with BS or higher in Computer Science preferred
• 7-10+ years in product management with domain knowledge of financial and payment services. Knowledge of card processing technologies and association certification processes is a plus.
• Superior written and verbal communication skills
• Demonstrated ability to understand and discuss technical concepts, manage trade offs, and evaluate opportunistic new ideas with internal and external partners
• Experience managing complex product development cycles and highly technical solutions
• Experience leading cross-functional teams to deliver products and projects on deadlines
• Highly organized and capable of helping teams navigate ambiguity and execute with confidence
• Demonstrated ability to document new ideas and drive innovations from concept to implementation
• Experience presenting to C-level leadership (internal and external)
• Ability to work with remote teams

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Why you’ll love working here:

• Competitive salary packages and bonuses
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance benefits
• Generous vacation and holidays
• Paid parental leave for eligible employees
• 401(k) and education on retirement planning Retirement plans and planning
• Tuition reimbursement on approved programs
• Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans
• Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program
• Fully stocked kitchen (snacks and drinks)
• To view all of our comprehensive and competitive benefits, visit our Benefits at SoFi page!