Product Manager - Digital Transformation Product Owner, VP

J. P. Morgan Wholesale Payments has launched a global, cross-Line of Business transformation program to drive a best-in-class implementations and service experience, support growth, and improve efficiency for clients and employees. We are committing significant talent and resources to: empower our simpler clients with a fully digitized experience from conversion through ongoing set up, maintenance, and service; deliver innovative capabilities to complex clients to allow them to self-service on their terms and streamline interactions with the bank; and empower employees to focus on more value-add activities by reducing the time it takes to service our clients and fulfill requests. In addition, we will leverage data science and artificial intelligence to proactively provide differentiated insights that drive better decision-making and optimize their transaction processing.

Role Overview

The Digital Transformation Product Manager will work on a team that is responsible for delivering an excellent experience for Client Service and Implementations employees in the Wholesale Payments Business. The team collaboratively designs and develops a platform that facilitates best-in-class set-up & maintenance of clients, entities, accounts, products, and services; resolution of common client inquiries; and dissemination of insights. The team plays a key role in defining the strategic workflow that optimizes the internal client experience, which in turn optimizes internal and external interactions. They ensure the platform is designed to be intuitive and provides a seamless experience with a look and feel tailored to the employees' needs. This role will focus on the internal desktop and experience for the service organization.

The team collaborates with technology partners as well other product teams in the program that are developing the underlying components that power the platform, to ensure they meet users' needs and those that offer the greatest value are prioritized. Additionally, the role entails deep Line of Business and user interactions via feedback design sessions and will require significant cross pollination with the other product teams in the program. Working as the bridge between end-users and the development team, this role will communicate the voice of the users, inform the product roadmap, articulate new features and enhancements to technologists, coordinate the successful implementation of product releases, and support ongoing product use while ensuring focus on program's strategic vision and goals and meeting deadlines.

Key Responsibilities

Collaborate closely with technology partners to execute against strategic vision

Work closely with client service and implementations colleagues and key stakeholders to understand needs and pain points as well as trends in the competitive marketplace

Develop user journeys and other artifacts that help communicate, and rally support for, intuitive user experience that best meets the needs of the platforms' users

Collaborate closely with the product and technology teams building the core components that enable critical underlying functionality of the portal (e.g., product initiation, document exchange, payment status transparency)

Identify critical dependencies, and other issues and present recommendations for resolution

Maintain ongoing proactive partnership with technology team members to ensure business demands are understood and delivered in an agile manner within agreed upon timeframes

Ensure feedback from user demos is incorporated into roadmaps so that deliverables meet business needs

Support client and practitioner adoption of new features/functionality

Qualifications

Minimum of 5- 8 years of experience, including experience in product management or user experience at a financial services, technology, or fintech firm

Self-starter able thrive in a fast-paced , collaborative and cross-functional environment that is results-driven

Creative problem solver, capable of developing innovative and differentiated solutions

Rigorous, logical thinker with ability to identify and articulate rationale, assumptions, and risks

Superior judgment to mitigate risk and foster an environment where risk/control issues are escalated and creative solutions are identified

Excellent relationship-building skills, with ability to establish trust and credibility across senior stakeholders, lines of business and functions

Ability to manage, attract, develop and retain top-talent; open to giving and receiving feedback

Good understanding of lean/agile product development lifecycle

Fortitude to persevere when confronted with difficult challenges

Strong time-management and organizational skills with ability to objectively prioritize

Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills, including ability to communicate technical topics to a non-technical audience and business needs to a technical audience

Passion for driving toward an excellent client experience; UI/UX/design experience a significant plus

Established track record of delivering results in a complex environment

Knowledge of treasury services, wholesale payments, corporate/commercial banking and client service/implementations functions and platforms a significant plus

Bachelor's degree or relevant experience; graduate degree in a business or technical field preferred

Additional Background

JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2.6 trillion and operations worldwide. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers and small business, commercial banking, financial transaction processing, and asset management. A component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, JPMorgan Chase & Co. serves millions of consumers in the United States and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under its J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at http://www.jpmorganchase.com .

J.P. Morgan Wholesale Payments is one of the world's largest, most trusted and innovative full-service providers of domestic and international cash management, liquidity, commercial card, merchant processing, FX and escrow solutions. With more than 135,000 corporations, financial institutions, public sector agencies and non-government clients in over 180 countries across the globe, we offer specialized solutions that provide operating efficiencies and value beyond other standardized solutions available in the market. Our global product and technology platform, integrated client service model and network of operational centers enable us to deliver a consistent set of services to clients no matter where they are across the world.

JPMorgan Chase is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer Disability/Veteran.

JPMorgan Chase & Co., one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world's most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

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