Posted: February 15, 2017
Title: Product Manager – Authentication
Reports to: VP, Product
Location: Denver, CO
Availability: Immediately

POSITION SUMMARY
The Product Manager, Authentication, is responsible for defining and managing product lines, increasing profitability of existing products, and developing new products based on market requirements to deliver market leading solutions that delight the customer and deliver value to company stakeholders in sales, marketing, and technology. The Product Manager will be responsible for orchestrating all organizational elements to achieve total product success as benchmarked against revenue growth, market position, and profitability.

RESPONSIBILITIES
• Understand your target users through interviews to understand their problems, and validate solutions
• Champion a customer-first and metrics-driven approach to product development
• Prioritize an opportunity backlog and plan quarterly / monthly roadmaps within and across the Authentication suite of services
• Work closely with Development & QA teams to deliver projects via an Agile process
• Work cross-functionally to ensure engineering projects are successfully launched and achieve intended business goals

REQUIRED ATTRIBUTES
• 3+ years of experience in Product Management within a SaaS environment
• Customer Focused – You seek deep understanding of your target users and are adept at understanding their problems and arriving at elegant solutions to those problems
• Strategic – You are able to absorb multiple internal and external inputs and use that information to define product strategy and prioritize your backlog. You are able to make difficult priority calls based on data and analysis
• Git ‘er Done – You are comfortable serving as a Product Manager within an Agile Scrum environment. You are technical enough to convey problem statements and solutions to engineering with credibility and conviction. You are “hungry” and drive highly productive outcomes across the scrum teams you lead
• Cross Functional Leader – You pull the right levers cross-functionally to get your products launched and supported. You communicate clearly and crisply. You develop trusting relationships internally and can rally the entire organization to ensure your product achieves intended business outcomes
• Accountable – Being willing to answer for the outcomes resulting from their own choices, behaviors, and actions. Take ownership of situations that they’re involved in
• Self Motivated – Motivated to do or achieve something because of one’s own enthusiasm or interest, without needing pressure from others
• Focused – Achieve what they set out to do before launching new initiatives. Complete company-linked goals and tasks, not simply to be busy and active
• Collaborative – A keen ability to support cross-functional projects and decisions. Gets energized from working within a team and cross-functionally to achieve the company’s goals
• Experience creating & delivering Products within the Authentication domain, preferred but not required
• Experience productizing RESTful APIs and Mobile SDKs, preferred but not required

COMPENSATION
A compensation package composed of a base salary and equity component will be structured to attract a uniquely qualified candidate. Excellent health benefits are included. No sponsorship will be provided.

ABOUT PAYFONE
In today’s world it takes just a few bad actors to force businesses to treat all customers with suspicion. This leads to customer and employee frustration, increased operating costs and reduced revenue. Payfone delivers a seamless non-intrusive verification using your mobile phone’s inherent identity to provide persistent protection for businesses and their customers.

Payfone removes customer friction and drives user engagement with Instant Trust to enable the best possible experience while lowering the risk of loss due to friction and fraud.

The company is backed by leading venture firms, financial institutions and Mobile Network Operators and is based in New York.

Additional information is available at www.payfone.com.

This position description should not be considered the final description of the position. It should be assumed that we would, to some extent, structure responsibilities in accordance with the successful candidate’s capabilities and changing business conditions.

Payfone is an equal opportunity employer committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people regardless of race, color, religion, gender or sexual orientation, age, marital status, national origin, citizenship status, disability, veteran status or other personal characteristics.