product manager - sf bay area

Product Manager (SF Bay Area, CA)
Posted by: "KIT List Jobs" jobposting2@kitlist.org
Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:59 am (PDT)


Please direct your responses to: rhenderson@accountn ow.net

Company Description
AccountNow, Inc. (www.accountnow. com) & (www.accountnowvisa .com) is a fast growing, privately held company providing financial solutions to the 40 million plus under-served/ unbanked consumer market. AccountNow provides lower cost alternatives to this market with products including “second chance” bank accounts, debit cards, credit builder, electronic transfer and bill payment services through numerous marketing channels.

Position Summary
We are seeking a seasoned, energetic, and tech-savvy entrepreneur who is wildly passionate about developing a WOW offering and customer experience for 40 million “unbanked” consumers. The Product Manager is responsible for creating customer delight, rapid growth, and durable competitive advantage. If you enjoy a fast paced environment with a start up approach to technology then this may be the role you’ve been waiting for!

The Product Manager position will be focused on managing the product roadmap. In addition, this candidate has to have a passion and proven track record in identifying, understanding, and developing innovative online solutions to customer problems. The candidate should also demonstrate strong leadership experience working with product managers, developers, and external providers and partners.

Job Function
As a Senior leader of Product Management, you will be responsible for:

• Lead overall offering strategy, priorities, and roadmap for new and existing online offerings, features, and services.
• Leverage participatory trends around user generated content, forums, and commenting.
• Work across organization to maintain a wholistic and unbiased world class online customer experience.
• Define/ Maintain product requirements and working with IT and senior management to execute on development projects.
• Manage the entire product life cycle from conception to development to release
• Develop an overall product strategy for development and maintenance of the assigned products.
• Develop tactical plans for delivery of the strategy.
• Translate/ Map customer understanding into creation of product requirements.
• Work as a single team with product development, user experience, contractors, operations, and third party providers to deliver on-time and high quality implementation of releases.
• Execute listening posts, usability reviews, and other research to continually enhance offerings.

Qualifications and Experience
• 8-10 years experience; ideally with at least 5-7 years of proven product management experience (including complete project lifecycle) with a prior start – up, consumer internet company, consumer financial products company, and/or other consumer-focused organization.
• Proven track record serving as business lead for web site creation and implementation
• Advanced understanding of software and new web technologies.
• Ability to think strategically while working tactically.
• Strong analytical and problem solving skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with focus on teamwork and ability to manage / foster relationships across multiple departments
• Entrepreneurial, high energy, and flexible - ability to multi-task, prioritize, roll up sleeves and jump in, and deliver under pressure with limited time and resources.

Education
• Bachelors degree or equivalent in marketing, economics, business administration, engineering, or computer science; MBA or advanced degree is strongly preferred

Salary/Benefits: The position is full-time and includes great benefits and a very competitive salary with stock options and bonuses based on results. We are located in the business park of San Ramon CA which can be conveniently reached from the Walnut Creek or Dublin/Pleasanton Bart Station. pro