Director of Product, Banking in Abbeyville, Colorado at Jobgether

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Director of Product, Banking based in the United States.

This is a senior product leadership opportunity focused on shaping and scaling a comprehensive banking and payments portfolio.
You will own product strategy, roadmap, and execution across onboarding, transaction processing, treasury solutions, and card issuance.
The role combines strategic leadership with hands-on product management, including defining requirements, writing specifications, and solving complex problems.
You will work closely with engineering, design, compliance, risk, legal, data, and go-to-market teams to deliver secure and compliant products.
A key part of the role is building and mentoring a high-performing, globally distributed product organization.
You will also establish scalable product practices, improve execution rigor, and translate complex banking needs into measurable customer and business outcomes.
This is an opportunity to make a significant impact in a fast-moving environment where ownership, innovation, collaboration, and results are highly valued.

• Own banking product strategy: Define and continuously evolve the product vision, strategy, and multi-quarter roadmap across customer onboarding, transaction processing, treasury solutions, card issuance, and related banking capabilities.
• Drive product execution: Prioritize initiatives, coordinate delivery across teams, and remain accountable for products from discovery and definition through launch, iteration, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead complex initiatives: Turn ambiguous, cross-functional business and technical challenges into clear requirements, scope, product specifications, and actionable delivery plans.
• Stay hands-on: Develop PRDs, product specifications, user stories, and other product documentation while engaging deeply with data, edge cases, ledgering, reconciliation, and regulatory considerations.
• Build and scale the product organization: Establish effective discovery, prioritization, specification, launch, and review processes that enable the team to scale while maintaining high standards.
• Develop product talent: Hire, coach, mentor, and retain product managers while establishing clear expectations, development plans, and growth opportunities.
• Lead distributed teams: Guide product professionals across multiple regions and time zones, promoting effective asynchronous collaboration and inclusive leadership.
• Partner cross-functionally: Collaborate with engineering, design, data, compliance, risk, legal, and go-to-market teams to deliver high-quality banking experiences.
• Manage risk and compliance: Ensure banking and payment products incorporate appropriate regulatory requirements, risk monitoring, fraud controls, security measures, and financial controls.
• Communicate with executives: Present strategy, progress, risks, investment needs, and trade-offs clearly to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Drive business outcomes: Ensure product decisions are connected to measurable customer, operational, and commercial outcomes, including deposit growth, interest income, interchange revenue, and improved customer experiences.

• Product leadership experience: Approximately 12–18 years of relevant product management experience, including at least 5 years leading and managing product teams. Demonstrated impact is valued over a specific number of years.
• Banking and payments expertise: Deep experience building and launching banking, payments, lending, or comparable financial products at scale.
• Domain breadth: Hands-on experience across several core areas, including customer onboarding and experience, transaction processing, ACH, RTP/FedNow, checks, cross-border payments, multi-currency transactions, treasury solutions, and card issuance.
• Risk and compliance: Proven experience delivering compliant payment products with appropriate fraud prevention, risk monitoring, and financial-crime controls.
• Treasury and card expertise: Familiarity with treasury products designed to drive deposit growth and interest income, as well as card programs that generate interchange revenue.
• Financial infrastructure knowledge: Working understanding of ledgering, reconciliation, balance integrity, and the financial controls required to support trustworthy banking products.
• Strategic product management: Demonstrated ability to establish product strategy and translate it into an executable roadmap with clear priorities and measurable outcomes.
• Complex problem solving: Strong ability to independently scope and lead complex, cross-functional initiatives from ambiguity through delivery.
• Hands-on product craftsmanship: Comfortable personally writing PRDs, product specifications, user stories, and requirements rather than operating solely at an oversight level.
• Organizational leadership: Experience hiring, coaching, and developing product managers while establishing durable processes, standards, and operating practices.
• Global leadership: Proven ability to lead and mentor distributed teams across multiple regions and time zones.
• Technical collaboration: Strong understanding of technical trade-offs and experience partnering closely with engineering and design teams.
• Regulatory and stakeholder management: Comfortable navigating compliance, risk, legal, and regulatory constraints while communicating effectively with executive-level stakeholders.
• Preferred experience: Exposure to domestic and cross-border payment rails, treasury or card issuance programs, banking platforms or APIs, fraud and financial-crime tooling, market expansion, or products involving payments, ledgering, and reconciliation.
• Education: A technical background or degree in a quantitative field is advantageous.

• Compensation: Annual base salary range of $230,000–$260,000.
• Financial incentives: Bonus programs, 401(k) matching, and an Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP).
• Financial wellness: HSA and FSA options, financial wellness resources, and employee discount programs.
• Healthcare: Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Mental health: Mental health support for employees and dependents through Lyra Health.
• Family support: Family planning and women's health benefits through Carrot.
• Wellness: Gym membership reimbursement and virtual wellness programs, including yoga.
• Paid time off: Three weeks of PTO to start, with unlimited PTO available after the first year.
• Professional development: Education expense reimbursement and leadership development programs.
• Certification support: Support for Certified Payments Professional (CPP) certification.
• Work environment: Remote work with a results-driven culture centered on ownership, authenticity, service, trust, innovation, and collaboration.
• Leadership impact: Opportunity to shape a significant banking and payments product portfolio while building and mentoring a globally distributed product organization.