Senior Associate, Product Management - Partnerships Marketing & Benefits — Richmond, VA

Senior Associate, Product Management - Partnerships Marketing & Benefits

Product Management

About the team: The Partnerships Marketing and Benefits product team is focused on creating and scaling marketing and digital customer experience (CX) capabilities for co-branded credit cards including those for high-profile, loyal brands like Cabela’s/Bass Pro, BJ’s, REI, Kohl’s, and T-Mobile.

A key function is to enable the Partnerships group to communicate the correct message to the right prospective customer at the right time. This aligns with the Enterprise Marketing Imperative and includes capabilities such as referrals and remarketing. The team also is responsible for functionalities that enhance the customer's digital interaction with their card on the EASE platform. The team directly influences two critical business outcomes: driving higher new accounts booked and fostering continued customer and benefits engagement.

• Human Centered
• You’ll collaborate with tech teams to build comprehensive acceptance criteria, identifying and elevating any need for additional research to define future feature design
• You'll breakdown business epics into features and further into user stories, driving your team towards lowest effort or Minimal Viable Product (MVP) for a valid feature test
• Business Focused
• Demonstrating a growth mindset, you’ll effectively use hypothesis-driven assessment of data to ensure your product or feature delivers on real business needs
• You’ll own and prioritize feature development roadmaps, ensuring all necessary processes and procedures are followed to manage risk
• Technology Driven
• You’ll work autonomously in an agile environment, to conduct research and develop features that utilize new and evolving technology
• You’ll collaborate with designers, technologists, data scientists and subject-matter experts to build cutting edge solutions to help customers
• You’ll deliver well-managed product platforms for customers by seeking to understand technology trends and architecture strategy
• Transformational Leadership
• By actively participating in horizontal forums, you’ll harness a network of trusted relationships among tech teams, designers, key internal stakeholders and partner teams
• You’ll articulate a succinct product roadmap to deliver business value and share with with stakeholders, elevating your team’s results and becoming a product matter expert

We want you if you are:

• Intellectually Curious. You ask why, you explore, you're not afraid to blurt out your crazy idea or follow an email chain for weeks to find someone with an answer. Comfortable with ambiguity, a hunger to learn and a seeker of new challenges
• Communicator & Influencer. You can communicate complex ideas clearly regardless of your audience. Our team knows their priorities and why they’re doing what they’re doing. You always can rally associates to work with you
• Do-er. You’re biased toward action, you try things and sometimes you fail. You can get around roadblocks and stay focused on your goals. You’re well organized, able to multitask and able to prioritize your work
• Passionate & Customer Focus. You care about growing others and bringing them together around what’s possible. You get a thrill from the journey of building and shipping products, and you have a desire and ability to connect with our external or internal customers to fully understand their needs
• Learner. You have an appetite to learn new things or new technologies all while exhibiting humbleness when the time comes to ask for help
• Team Player. You enjoy working with diverse people and driving the team toward a common goal. You have the ability to put the team before yourself and establish long-lasting relationships

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or military experience
• At least 1 year of product management experience or at least 1 year of experience in product design, agile delivery, business analysis, data science, or software engineering

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or engineering
• 1+ years translating business strategy or analysis into consumer facing digital products
• 1+ years of experience working on core product platforms powering digital experiences
• 1+ years working with cross functional teams as a product owner in an agile development process