WHO WE ARE
Zeta is a next-generation banking-tech company on a mission to help our clients gain competitive advantage and independence from legacy systems to realize their digital strategies - whether that’s launching a digital bank, offering new digital 1st payments services, or entering into emerging high-growth buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) and/or banking- as-a-service (BaaS) markets. We aim to be at the center of our clients’ needs for next generation banking technology, so they can get their digital transformation and/or strategy right.
Zeta was founded by serial entrepreneurs Bhavin Turakhia and Ramki Gaddipati in 2015 to bring Banking into the 21st century. The industry today is challenged with legacy platforms that were considered a strength in the 90s, but are now crippling banks with high technology debt. With the emergence of digitization and open banking frameworks, newcomers (neo, challenger banks, fintechs and big tech) are leapfrogging the status quo by utilizing the latest technologies and delivering innovative solutions that traditional vendors and banks can no longer compete with. This is where Zeta comes in. Zeta has built, from the ground up, a cloud native platform for banks to modernize financial services. The company’s mission is to “disrupt the disruptors” by enabling banks to launch innovative services by combining banks’ core capabilities with the latest and greatest technologies. The result is a modern banking
stack that gives banks a competitive advantage to tackle neo/challenger banks, fintech or big tech threats and build the digital bank of the future.
By joining Zeta you’ll help shape a brighter financial future for our clients - using the industry’s 1st and only innovative, mobile-first technology banking stack to transform an industry that hasn’t changed in decades. With offices across the United States and abroad,
we’re one of the fastest growing companies in banking-tech - offering the agility of a start-up with the stability of seasoned management and dynamic, passionate employees. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world.
OUR JOURNEY
In May of 2021, Zeta secured a $250 million investment from SoftBank Vision Fund 2 in one of the largest ever single investments in a banking tech startup globally. This investment, coupled with Zeta’s growth trajectory, has increased Zeta’s previous valuation of $300 million to a current valuation of $
1.45 billion resulting in unicorn status. Zeta now operates in 8 countries and to date has issued more than 10 million cards globally.
Zeta has built the industry’s most modern digital cloud native platform in the industry, consisting of new age prepaid / debit / credit issuance digital products for banks, retailers and fintech issuers. These products provide a new age (“Apple card like”) user experience and enables Financial Institutions to rapidly deliver digital-first modern payment solutions including credit / debit / prepaid, digital banking, gifting, benefits, DDA, commercial card, expense management and money transfer. All of these services are vertically integrated into a single platform with fully developed front-end digital and back-office security, fraud, compliance, support, and configuration services.
While the industry has been focused on consolidation of companies with outdated legacy systems, Zeta has consolidated a modern financial services platform resulting in a 10-fold reduction in solution complexity and a 10-fold increase in solution capability.
Over the next five years, Zeta aims to capture significant global market share and be recognized as the undisputed market leader in digital-first retail banking platforms. Our goal is not to rip-and-replace, but leapfrog to next generation solutions by enabling financial
institutions to expand their products and solutions to serve the digitally savvy consumer.
Key Responsibilities
- Reporting into the Senior Director of Banking & Strategic Accounts, you will be responsible for working across cross- functional teams from various business units to deliver complex programs for our Axon card app and solutions suite.
- This is a newly created growth position adding to our existing team. Your role will primarily comprise the following:
- Delivery - As a Program Manager, you will lead cross-functional teams from different business units to deliver complex programs. You will plan and manage project schedules, anticipate project risks and provide mitigation strategies. You will as need be provided escalation management recommending engineering trade-offs and decisions aligned with business goals
- Stakeholder Management - You will manage conflicts, drive effective teamwork, communication and collaboration partnering across multiple business units with competing priorities.
- Program Management - As a Technical Program Manager, you will identify opportunities, define and institutionalize processes for accurately capturing scope, dependencies, schedule, metrics, risks for program success and effectively communicating the program status and updates/reports to all stakeholders on a regular cadence.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS
- Overall, 8-10 years of software industry experience (preferably in product development)
- 5+ years of strong experience managing large cross-functional software projects right from inception to launch seeing the full life cycle with a deep understanding of agile methodologies.
- Experience providing cross-functional coordination with engineering, product and inter/intra team communications to technical and non-technical groups.
- Experience working with tools to manage schedule, cost and risks of ongoing projects and provide reports to management.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, proven ability to build strong relationships and lead and influence cross-functional and partner teams.
- Exercise good business judgement skills to find short-term solutions working cross- Functionally for difficult/tricky engineering problems while not sacrificing the long-term goals.
- Experience architecting fault-tolerant, highly available and scalable distributed architecture systems.
- Good knowledge of one or more technology stack (preferably Java, Spring boot and Postgresql), preferably a PMP or Agile PM certification.
- Knowledge of JIRA
- Strong drive to bring change, identifies opportunities and highly perseverant until they are realized Challenges status-quo and always pushes for new, innovative and simple solutions
- Excellent communication skills, somebody who can understand the business problem/domain fast and articulate problem/solution to different audience types (technical/business). Obsessive ownership towards individual and team goals and does it right
EDUCATION
- MBA from an accredited, top tier institution is not required but highly desired
COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS*
● Competitive salary packages and bonuses
● Comprehensive medical, dental, vision and life insurance benefits
● Generous vacation and holidays
● Paid parental leave for eligible employees
*These benefits are only applicable to full-time employees
JOIN US
This is a fantastic opportunity to grow your career with a top-flight banking-tech company serving the North American market, well positioned to disrupt legacy retail banking by vertically integrating core, payments and digital, to deliver the next generation digital suite of configurable products for both retail and commercial bank offerings. If you are a seasoned program management professional with proven results in delivering solutions, we would be delighted to have you join our team.
EEO STATEMENT
Zeta provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions,
breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law. Total compensation will be commensurate with experience, market trends, and current salary.
