About Careertakes

👉 Important disclosure: Careertakes is a third-party recruiting platform supporting this hiring process. If selected, you will be employed directly by our client, Financial Services.

Applicants for this role may also receive access to additional matched opportunities through the Careertakes platform.

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What You’ll Do

You will be a hands-on product manager supporting an enterprise-scale card processing platform. You’ll drive execution across payments logic, legacy-to-target migrations, and resiliency efforts that protect customer payment experiences and enable business growth.

• Lead high-stakes program and conversion execution for card-processing initiatives (including major card network integrations).
• Own product discovery, requirements, and data validation for clearing and transaction flows.
• Map legacy processes to target-state architectures and support bridge solutions and rollouts.
• Build roadmaps and product strategy informed by business needs, data, and customer impact.
• Perform root-cause analysis on recurring production errors and define systemic fixes to reduce manual “catch & fix” work.
• Define, test, and validate disaster recovery readiness and failover criteria for critical processing features.
• Triage incoming feature and operational requests and translate them into prioritized user stories and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate across engineering, design, data, operations, and business stakeholders to deliver reliable solutions.

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Growth Areas — What You’ll Learn & Own

You’ll be supported to grow in four key dimensions as you execute:

• Human-centered product practice
  • Break business epics into features and user stories; define MVP acceptance criteria and research needs.
• Business discipline
  • Use hypothesis-driven analysis to validate that features deliver measurable business outcomes and manage risk.
• Technology fluency
  • Work autonomously with engineering, designers, and data teams to build platform-driven solutions.
• Transformational leadership
  • Communicate concise roadmaps and progress metrics to leadership and cross-functional partners.

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Who We’re Looking For

You thrive in ambiguous environments and can translate complex systems into clear product decisions.

• Intellectually curious — asks “why,” explores edge cases, and digs until answers are found.
• Strong communicator and influencer — explains complex ideas to different audiences and rallies teams.
• Bias toward action — organized, able to multitask and prioritize, and comfortable iterating quickly.
• Customer-focused — passionate about building and shipping products that solve real customer problems.
• Collaborative team player — builds trusted relationships and elevates team outcomes.

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Minimum Qualifications

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

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Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or engineering.
• 1+ years translating business strategy or analysis into consumer-facing digital products.
• 1+ years working on core product platforms that power digital experiences.
• 1+ years serving as a product owner in an agile development process.

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Compensation & Benefits

The minimum and maximum full-time annual salary range for Illinois-based hires for this role (Sr. Associate, Product Management) is:

• $101,100 — $115,400 (annual)

This role may also be eligible for performance-based incentives (cash bonuses and/or long-term incentives). Confidential Client offers a comprehensive benefits package. Actual pay offered will depend on candidate experience, location, and other lawful factors and will be reflected in the offer letter.

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Additional Legal & Hiring Notes

• Confidential Client will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization for this position.
• This role is expected to accept applications for a minimum of 5 business days.
• No agencies please.
• Confidential Client considers qualified applicants with a criminal history consistent with applicable law and provides reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If you need an accommodation, contact recruiting as indicated by the hiring organization.

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Equal Opportunity & Hiring Transparency

Careertakes and our client are Equal Opportunity Employers committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce. We prohibit discrimination or harassment of any kind. To support a fair and efficient hiring process, AI tools may be used to assist with application review or resume screening. These tools do not replace human decision-making. Final hiring decisions are made by people.

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