Group Product Manager

This role is a work from home position and can be performed remotely anywhere in the continental US or in our corporate office in Draper, Utah.

Employee Value Proposition (EVP): PROG is dedicated to providing people with opportunity; opportunity for inclusive collaboration, opportunity for innovation, and opportunity for development. 

WE ARE: Prog Tech embodies the modernity and transformational vision that is core to our business evolution. As passionate and hungry technical experts, we join together on the mission of progressing through technology. We believe in taking pride in our engineering, in the relentless pursuit of daily progress, and to bring others with you in your march to the future. We continuously experiment, fail fast, and constantly deliver. 

YOU ARE: Responsible for working closely with multiple stakeholders to understand retailer/customer needs, create our product vision and then execute. The role will also require effective communication of objectives, timing, and obstacles.

YOUR DAY-TO-DAY: 

• Provide strategic leadership oversight for integrated retail products including dev tools, APIs, SDKs, and plug-ins.
• Partner with sales, marketing, implementation functions, and consumer experience to drive roadmap alignment.
• Work closely with engineering, design, and analytics teams to define requirements, solve technical challenges, and iterate quickly.
• Stay ahead of technical fintech trends, particularly around retailers unmet needs
• Work closely with sales to understand retailer requirements and integration constraints
• Participate in planning and development work, in collaboration with product development teams, to ensure timely delivery of market leading solutions
• Managerial oversight for versioning, backward compatibility, and deprecation strategy for APIs and SDKs
• Build a strategy for strategic vendors in retail space to unlock efficiency and ease of integration for retailers
• Represent the product function in integration strategy sessions with senior leadership and strategic retailers.
• Manage integration best practices internally and externally (e.g., at partner summits, conferences, webinars)
• Analyze performance of product features

YOU’LL BRING: 

• 5+ years’ experience working for or with US retailers
• 5+ years of experience in product leadership of financial services
• 3+ years of experience managing products that require technical integration (SDK, Plug-In, API)
• Strong understanding of technical systems and APIs
• Exceptional skills in executive presentations, work collaboration, understanding of business challenges
• Strong business acumen: demonstrated experience with retail business and technical integrations
• Passion for leading strategy development and ability to move from high-level strategy to execution
• Exceptional communicator with proven ability to write and present effectively to a variety of audiences
• High-integrity ambition to relentlessly pursue the best possible product and service
• Demonstrated ability to self-motivate, self-direct, and be flexible within a fast-paced environment
• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Business or related field required