Structured Working Capital Global Product Lead – Payments – Executive Director

Ignite your passion for product innovation by leading customer-centric development, inspiring solutions, and shaping the future with your strategic vision and influence.

As the Structured Working Capital Global Product Lead within Trade & Working Capital, you will have global accountability and ownership for product strategy, P&L and end to end product delivery.  You will leverage your advanced capabilities to challenge traditional approaches, remove barriers to success, and foster a culture of continuous innovation that helps inspire cross-functional teams create groundbreaking solutions that address customer needs.

Trade & Working Capital (“TW&C”) is a division of J.P. Morgan Payments. TW&C connects counterparties with market-leading Supply Chain Finance, Receivables Finance, Inventory Finance, Contract Monetization, Commodity Trade Finance, Working Capital Lending, Export Agency Finance (EAF), and Traditional Trade solutions.  Structured Working Capital is part of (T&WC) and includes Receivables Finance, Contract Monetization, Commodity Trade Finance and Inventory Finance.   

Job responsibilities

• Oversees the product roadmap, vision, development, execution, risk management, and business growth targets; Owns product performance and is accountable for investing in enhancements to achieve business objectives; Oversee business continuity resiliency plans
• Leads the entire product life cycle through planning, execution, commercialization, and future development by continuously adapting, developing new products and methodologies, managing risks, monitor and report on product exceptions and achieving business targets like cost, features, reusability, and reliability to support growth
• Coaches and mentors the product team on best practices, such as solution generation, market research, storyboarding, mind-mapping, prototyping methods, product adoption strategies, and product delivery, enabling them to effectively deliver on objectives
• Manages product level P&L, balance sheet, RWA and capital, including planning and forecasting, forecasting management and reconciliation
• Ensure readiness for OCC and Audit; engage with Audit/Trade Controls
• Serve as the key point of connection with regulators and local governance bodies
• Ensure products have obtained required regulatory, controls, and compliance signoff prior to launch
• Manage Third Party Oversight (TPO) process and TPO relationship management
• Ensures understanding of the client and regional market, and emerging trends to identify gaps and opportunities; research market dynamics and competitor landscape and identify opportunities for product differentiation
• Partners with Technology and Product Delivery to deliver a competitive digital platform strategy
• Manages product level governance and risk and control environment, including product approvals and renewals and cross functional collaboration with Risk, Legal, and Compliance

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 8+ years of experience or equivalent expertise delivering products, projects, or technology application
• Experience in Trade & Working Capital, Payments, Investment Banking or Credit Risk
• Experience working with regulators and local governance bodies 
• Extensive knowledge of the product development life cycle, technical design, and data analytics
• Proven ability to influence the adoption of key product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
• Proven experience managing large global teams and driving cross-regional collaboration
• Experience driving change within organizations and managing stakeholders across multiple functions
• Exceptional organization, communication, and management skills
• Strong communication skills both verbal and written 

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Recognized thought leader within a related field