Sr Product Manager

Job Description

Job Summary:

As leader of the product, clearly communicate and drive product strategy, direction, and vision; maintains

the roadmap and strategy for the product in sync with that for the product line and the overall ACI

strategy.

As the product champion, continually drive product adoption among the customer base and

target market, understand pain points and problems and address them in a timely fashion, with a constant

eye on maximizing the ROI for the product; Partner with marketing, product marketing and channels to

develop the GTM strategy; Stay engaged with the sales team and articulate the value proposition of the

product among customers and prospects alike.

The product manager shall maintain an intimate understanding of the payments industry and the competition to quickly identify opportunities and threats, leverage our strengths and overcome our weaknesses while influencing the overall ACI product strategy.

The product manager shall be the “go to” person for the product and shall work cohesively with the

application development team, AOD, Finance, Sales, Sales Operations, Legal and the Business Analysts,

representing the market and clearly conveying the requirements to ensure that the products are delivered

on time and within budget.

Job Responsibilities:

• Elicits and validates stakeholder requirements. Conducts research and data gathering to analyze
  
  

and determine appropriate solutions. Manages entire Requirements process to include

documentation preparation and presentation.

• Functions as the primary product and target market SME (subject matter expert); understands
  
  

competitive landscape from strategy to functional capabilities; defines the market and market

segments; Identifies customer and prospect problems and market opportunities; builds, updates,

and communicates the product line vision, strategy and 5-year road map for core stakeholders

and for external consumption.

• Drives the positioning and interaction of the product within the product portfolio and its integration
  
  

with other products. Defines and executes a distribution strategy for the product to achieve

growth targets at desired margin, and through optimal resource consumption. Sponsors

innovation that helps achieve the strategic plan.

• Responsible for comprehensive definition and cadence of product Release for a product line to
  
  

achieve the strategic plan, by identifying and delivering requirements that increase market share

and exploit ACI’s breadth and depth of solutions across the payment processing lifecycle.

• Clearly articulates the value proposition and positioning of the product. Provides input to
  
  

solution/product marketing for the go-to-market plan and supports the launch team. Ensures all

sales enablement tools are delivered to schedule, and the sales team is trained proficiently.

Drives market acceptance by evangelizing the product to all stakeholders. Monitors launch

effectiveness. Demonstrates thought leadership through participation in conferences, blogs and

published papers.

• Communicating the product vision and sharing product expertise with the Agile team's
• Setting priorities effectively, i.e., prioritizing the backlog, and ensuring that the team understands
  
  

why the stories are in a specific order to maximize the team’s output

• Elaborating/publishing user story requirements in a timely fashion, clarifying user story requirements/answering team questions quickly and concisely, and creating clear, testable acceptance criteria for stories
• Participating in scrum team meetings (grooming, planning, review, etc.)
• Engaging internal stakeholders and external contacts as needed to provide direction to the team
  
  

independently of the Product Manager/ Principal Product Owner

• Provides guidance to other Product Owners while providing training/ acting as a mentor to junior
  
  

Product Owners

• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Understand and adhere to all corporate policies to include but not limited to the ACI Code of Business Conduct and Ethics.
  
  

Knowledge, Skills and Experience required for the job:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years related experience in an industry related role such as technical support, product management or product development type roles.
  
  

Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Experience needed for the job:

• Deep and broad understanding and experience in all aspects of product management, Agile development methodology.
  
  

Work Environment:

• Standard work environment
  
  

Benefits: In return for your expertise, we offer growth, opportunity, and a competitive compensation and benefits package in a casual work environment.

Are you ready to help us transform the world of electronic payments? To learn more about ACI Worldwide, visit our website at www.aciworldwide.com Job ID (Requisition #15273)

ACI Worldwide is an AA/EEO employer in the United States, which includes providing equal opportunity for protected veterans and individuals with disabilities, and an EEO employer globally