Job Description
UMB Product Manager – Payments/Finance
locations
USA Remote
time type
Full time
job requisition id
REQ_36280
Business Unit:
Cubic Transportation Systems
Company Details:
Cubic offers an opportunity to provide innovative technology for government and commercial customers around the globe, helping to solve their future problems today. We’re the leading integrator of payment and information technology and services for intelligent travel solutions worldwide, and the leading provider of realistic combat training systems, secure communications and networking and highly specialized support services for military and security forces of the U.S. and allied nations. If you have an entrepreneurial spirit and thrive in an innovative environment, we want to talk to you about your next role at Cubic! We are seeking employees inspired by technology, and motivated by the rewards of hard work, commitment, teamwork, quality, integrity, and respect. We invite you to explore opportunities with Cubic.
Job Details:
Job Summary:
Center of all stakeholders of the product development ecosystem. The product manager is responsible for managing the product, setting targets, work priorities, participating in squad development, go-to-market activities and driving the team through sprint planning and release scheduling. Is a product visionary, customer ambassador and team leader. Directs a comprehensive product strategy from product conception and definition through end of life. Drives the creation, development and delivery of products within the Enterprise Software Solutions product family. Performs ongoing market research, reviews customer satisfaction, works with development teams and measures product success. Formulates and executes long-term plans in line with company strategy and P&L targets. Is responsible for leading and influencing development teams to ensure product goals are met without being directly responsible for those resources. Selects, develops, and evaluates personnel to ensure the efficient operation of the squad. This position works under limited supervision and direction. Incumbents of this position will regularly exercise discretionary and substantial decision-making authority.
This position will work under the direction of the overall Product Management Director for Enterprise Software, and will specifically focus on the Payments space. The focus for this area will be to ensure that all money moving in and out of the fare collection system is fully accounted for and reconciled. This position will be responsible for the overall payments strategy and execution for enterprise software including Credit/Debit/ACH/Check/Cash payment methods as well as identifying future payment instruments that would add value to the system overall.
Essential Job Duties and Responsibilities:
- Responsible for planning and execution of product lines throughout their lifecycle including gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, defining product vision and working closely with management, development teams, engineering, sales, marketing, and other support groups to ensure revenue, profit and customer expectations are met.
- Develops product vision and synchronizes with tribe leads/product owners responsible for related products
- Define product requirements making sure they are complete, integral and consistent and the sole source of requirements for the squad; develop and manage a product roadmap with the discipline of consistent sized features on the roadmap
- Work closely with upper management to develop long term product development and sales strategies for the company.
- Understand, articulate, and capture customer market problems and then translate them into requirements for product development teams
- Make sure the squad correctly understands the requirements and features to be developed
- Accept sprint results at demonstration and contribute to squad product development via building of squads backlog in terms of user stories, prioritizing items to achieve business goals, and continuously keeping the backlog up to date
- Interact and synchronize with other product owners/managers to implement cross-squad activities and to smooth communication between cross-squads
- Working with Product Marketing, provide sales and business development teams with marketing strategy and guidance for selling, promoting products, and meeting customer needs.
- Monitor and analyze market trends and competitors to make sure product lines stay competitive and fulfill customer needs.
- Key contributor in coordinating quote and proposal activities through business development and contracts to meet customer needs.
- Create the core value proposition, revenue models and projections
- Educates sales and other teams with unique marketing/selling messages
- Develops investment plans for each product so that products will be up to date and meet all market driven and customer requirements.
- Serves as expert with respect to the customer and competitive environment.
Minimum Job Requirements:
- Four-year college degree, or equivalent, in product line, business or program leadership fields
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant experience, including 3-4 years’ experience working as a product manager or equivalent technical leadership positions.
- Ability to communicate effectively in multiple business areas (e.g. marketing, sales, finance, operations, technology).
- Must have experience in launching products B2B markets and evolving these into viable company revenue streams
- Excellent teamwork skills.
- Demonstrated experience in creating product specifications, gathering customer requirements, performing competitive analysis and/or market research.
- Able to make decisions independently and manage indirect teams.
- Excellent presentation, written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrated experience in the payments space, including working with at least one of the major card brands.
- Demonstrated understanding of financial accounting as it may be applied to a fare collection system
- Understand the demands to maintain PCI compliant product development, delivery and operations.