The key expectations for the role are:
- Assessing the feasibility of new products and solutions for rollout into the Asia Pacific markets and provide regional and global colleagues with regional/market requirements and customizations that will influence the global product roadmap.
- Having a vision for future of digital payments (both card and non-card) and the product building blocks that will help achieve that vision.
- Partnering with adjacent teams such as Design, Solution Architecture, Technology and on occasion, external vendors, to build and launch new solutions
- Working with sales, product and client services team in various AP markets to execute against a strategy and achieve these targets.
- Focusing on people development and provide the team the opportunity for personal and professional development.
What you will need:
- Minimum 15 years experience with development or delivery of products and solutions with a focus on payments products and solutions
- Ability to articulate a strategic vision/influence strategy and solution constructs that execute against it, to both internal and external stakeholders.
- Experience in driving transformation projects, comfortable designing for the future, while managing day-to-day matters. Able to challenge the status-quo sensitively and constructively by being intellectually agile, self-assured, and with a listen-first attitude.
- Experience in financial services, fintechs, telecom, retail or ecommerce with specific knowledge of payment systems and networks.
- Natural curiosity to learn about new products and systems and ability to quickly grasp new concepts and be able to explain the key benefits to clients and internal stakeholders.
- A client-oriented mindset when developing solutions while having a strong commercial understanding of a network business.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with demonstrated critical thinking.
- High energy, motivated team player, able to effectively work across functions and teams to drive projects and key initiatives to completion.
- Experience in managing a team of high performing individuals with different skillsets across business development and product management
- Strong collaborative, diplomatic, and flexible working style, and able to work effectively in a matrixed organization.
- Ability to first-hand develop and deliver high quality content on topics ranging across strategy, product/ constructs, commercial proposals, execution plans.
- Proven presentation skills, including strong oral and written capabilities are needed.
- A high degree of execution bias with ability to manage a large number of concurrent initiatives.
What will also help:
- Prior experience in tokens and authentication technologies with payment gateways, financial institutions especially in product management roles would be advantageous. Alternately, significant work experience at a senior level in wallets and/or domestic networks with proven experience in strategy, product road mapping, etc.
- Deep technical knowledge of technologies and systems used in payments, mobile and e-commerce, specifically, in areas of but not limited to 3-D Secure, EMV, authentication, NFC, and tokenization, as well as working knowledge of system interconnection methods (APIs, SDKs, ISO messages etc.)
- Experience with Agile methodology to drive product development and delivery
