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Associate Product Manager
Discover Financial Services
Riverwoods, IL, United States
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Discover. A more rewarding way to work.
At Discover Financial Services, you’ll find yourself in the company of some of the industry’s smartest and most reliable professionals. And at a company that rewards dedication, values innovation and supports growth.
Thrive in an environment that promotes teamwork and shared success. Build on a foundation of mutual respect. Join the company that understands rewarding careers like no other, with this exceptional opportunity:
Job Description:
At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee-focused as it is on its customers, and which is consistently awarded for both. We’re all about people and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work.Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.
Discover is seeking an experienced individual to manage digital wallets and other emerging payment initiatives to drive Discover’s digital commerce strategies. The candidate must have deep knowledge and passion around digital, mobile and emerging technologies and is able to visualize how they can help optimize consumer experiences. An entrepreneur at heart, hard-working and autonomous by nature, with a relentless focus on achieving results, this person will play a key role in helping advance Discover’s position in the emerging wallet technology and payments space.
This individual will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and presenting the vision and roadmap for the business’s technology initiatives. Creates the product vision based on a thorough understanding of customer and business needs, and is both internally and externally focused. Guides both requirements and the corresponding work needed through grooming and prioritization by taking responsibility for “content decisions” and what gets implemented. Manages timelines and feature delivery and remain flexible as we learn, iterate, and integrate in an effort to deliver functionality on aggressive timelines in a scaled Agile framework.
Responsibilities
• Ensures features and technology releases aligned with product vision.
• Develops and communicates the product vision roadmap, adjusting to changing market, customer, and/or organizational needs.
• Builds an effective functional program grooming team (VSA, Shared Services, SMEs).
• Helps break down initiatives into prioritized features, and manages the program pipeline (backlog) of these features for every release and Program Increment (PI).
• Participates in portfolio grooming to understand initiatives and business cases.
Skills:
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
• Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering, Information Technology, Business, Marketing, Psychology, Finance, or related field
• 4+ years of experience in Financial Services, Technology, Customer Service, Marketing, Operations, Project Management, Scaled Agile, Agile Development Project Management, Technology Architect, Software Development, or related field
• In lieu of a degree, 6+ years of experience in Project Management, Scaled Agile, Agile Development Project Management, Technology Architect, Software Development, or related field
Preferred Qualifications
If we had our say, we’d also look for:
• 6+ years of experience in Project Management, Scaled Agile, Agile Development Project Management, Technology Architect, Software Development, or related field
• Experience with and knowledge of digital wallets (Apple Pay, Google Pay, Samsung Pay), mobile, contactless payments and emerging payments technology
• Demonstrated ability to adapt quickly to change and collaborate across groups
• Excellent communication and leadership skills
• Self starter with strong Organizational and time management skills
• Excellent problem solving ability
Discover Financial Services is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, among other things, or as a qualified individual with a disability.