At U.S. Bank, we’re on a journey to do our best. Helping the customers and businesses we serve to make better and smarter financial decisions, enabling the communities we support to grow and succeed in the right ways, all more confidently and more often—that’s what we call the courage to thrive. We believe it takes all of us to bring our shared ambition to life, and each person is unique in their potential. A career with U.S. Bank gives you a wide, ever-growing range of opportunities to discover what makes you thrive. Try new things, learn new skills and discover what you excel at—all from Day One.
As a wholly owned subsidiary of U.S. Bank, Elavon is committed to building the platforms and ecosystems that help over 1.5 million customers around the world to achieve their financial goals—no matter what they need. From transaction processing to customer service, to driving innovation and launching new products, we’re building a range of tailored payment solutions powered by the latest technology. As part of our team, you can explore what motivates and energizes your career goals: partnering with our customers, our communities, and each other.
Job Description
Product Manager - Payment Acceptance
This is a 12 month Fixed Term Contract
Location - Cherrywood, South Dublin Office , Arklow Office or Warsaw Poland.
Join our dynamic and innovative team as Product Manager for Payment Methods and Payment Acceptance. As the Product Manager, you will play a critical role in defining the strategy for Digital and Local Payment Methods across Europe. Partnering with the peer Product Managers and Scrum teams to deliver Product and Technology strategies to run, grow and modernize our payment processing ecosystem.
Reporting to the Head of Platform (Product Europe), you will support, refine, and prioritize the product backlog and create epics and acceptance criteria that align with product strategy. Your ability to collaboratively develop and evolve a product strategy and articulate a product vision that supports outcomes, value, and prioritization of work will be key to your success in this role.
With your solid understanding of the Lean/Agile mindset, you will work closely in a first-hand style with the wider organization, Product Managers, and development teams, addressing prioritization needs, supplying real-time feedback, and answering questions on an ongoing basis. Your strong leadership and people skills, including the ability to collaborate with and empower teams, will enable you to lead cross-functional teams to find dependencies and align the streamlined delivery of initiatives.
What can you expect from the role?
Partners closely with customers (internal and external), the business line(s) and Agile teams to drive the evolution of the assigned product(s).
Maintain, refine, and prioritise the product backlog; creates Epics and acceptance criteria and prioritizes the roadmap to ensure work focuses on those with maximum business value that align with product strategy.
Acts as primary liaison between the business and Agile teams, ensuring the teams understand vision for the products.
Work closely in a direct style with Product Owner including addressing daily prioritization needs, supplying real-time feedback, and answering questions on an ongoing basis.
Lead cross functional teams to find dependencies and align the streamlined delivery of initiatives.
Works with Product Owner to set release dates, determine customer value and agree release to market, understand trade-offs between schedule, scope and budget and communicates this information to the organization.
Employs product management practices and tactics including customer research, data and analytics, and market research.
Oversees the evaluation of market trends, product development, product position and pricing philosophy.
Recommends enhancements to product line to stimulate sales and meet aims.
Basic Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree, or equivalent work experience
6+ years of experience in a payment, acquiring or banking related role.
Preferred Skills/Experience:
Advanced experience with Payments, including Local and Digital Payment Methods in Europe.
Experience integrating next generation payment methods into an existing acquiring or banking environment.
Ability to collaboratively develop and evolve a product backlog.
Ability to develop and articulate a product vision that supports outcomes, value, and prioritization of work.
Solid understanding of the Lean/Agile mindset.
Demonstrated leadership and people skills including ability to collaborate with and empower teams.
Well-developed verbal and written communication skills.
Proficient data analysis skillset to aid in the identification of key requirements to deliver a robust and scalable solutions.
Standard industry certifications such as Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) or Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) desired.
The role offers a hybrid / flexible schedule, which means there's an in-office expectation of 3 or more days per week and the flexibility to work outside the office location for the other days.
This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship.
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If there’s anything we can do to accommodate a disability during any portion of the application or hiring process, please refer to our disability accommodations for applicants.
Benefits:
We offer an exciting, fast-paced and diverse working environment with employees of many different nationalities. We provide benefits to help you protect your health and financial security; and give you peace of mind. We also invest in your career growth with development resources that give you the opportunity to stretch and shine.
