Discover Financial Services - Riverwoods, IL
posted about 2 months ago
Discover is seeking a Junior Product Manager who will play a crucial role in managing the strategy, roadmap, and goals for Digital Payments Core Technologies that support Digital Payments Products. This position involves collaborating with client-facing product managers and product owners to evaluate existing capabilities and identify desired enhancements. The Junior Product Manager will be responsible for creating strategic initiatives aimed at building multi-tenant technologies that meet partner expectations. Key areas of focus include network capabilities such as tokenization, de-tokenization, cryptograms, and token lookup services. In this role, the Junior Product Manager will assess the performance of new and existing product lines, shaping their structure and direction. They will develop and execute strategic product plans for key initiatives, including the introduction of new products, product line extensions, and enhancements. The position requires active management of risks and customer-impacting issues, ensuring that the team achieves specific goals for each product. This includes evaluating product performance and identifying innovations to address customer needs and improve market performance. The Junior Product Manager will also be responsible for identifying sources, monitoring, analyzing, and interpreting key product performance metrics, including financials and customer feedback trends. They will communicate findings and recommend performance improvements to support data-driven business decisions. Collaboration with vendors and cross-functional teams such as Sales, Operations, Legal, Marketing, Finance, and Technology is essential for the evaluation, development, management, and enhancement of assigned products and programs. Additionally, the Junior Product Manager will manage project scope, deliverables, and timelines within pre-set budgets, participate in Agile sprints, and support sales efforts or go-to-market strategies.