Applied Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in insurance technology, is currently searching for a VP of Product, Digital Payments reporting to the Chief Payments Officer. We are looking for someone passionate about solving problems and achieving data-driven solutions. You will be directly responsible to own and lead outcomes related to Payments Foundations, Optimization, Monetization and Growth. Our Product Managers are responsible for setting the vision and strategy and owning the roadmap and execution of the developed plans. We value Accountability, Bias to Action, and Curiosity, and invest in shared successes. We know that a broad range of perspectives helps us to create the best possible product and experiences.

The Applied Pay Team is a cross-functional team that works with multiple departments to ensure our internal teams are fully supported to do their best work for our customers. We’re a close-knit, collaborative, empowered team that thrives when working on complex challenges.

What You’ll Do

• Payments/Fintech Expert: You will be responsible for a key part of our global payments platform and strategy - enabling new payments capabilities that help us expand our reach globally and delight our community, build foundational capabilities that enable us to move funds seamlessly, analyze and optimize conversion and fuel growth of our business with new payment opportunities.
• Product Ownership: Lead product development, and successful execution of new product initiatives and features.
• Customer Focus: Be the advocate for our customers (internal and external) and understand the needs of our community to build delightful experiences, through understanding and mapping of various user stories & customer journeys.
• Collaboration: Work cross-functionally with engineering, design, marketing, data, QA, and other teams to build out an amazing product.
• Communication: Articulate the problem you're solving, the vision you are going after, write crisp and clear requirements and communicate the challenges and constraints to senior management and various stakeholders.
• Influence: Break down large projects into milestones, make trade-off decisions while balancing the nuances of implementation details and time-to-market needs, and get buy-in from cross-functional teams.
• Data-informed decision-making: Use A/B Testing, analytics, market research, usability studies and competitive analysis to drive product decisions.
• Analytics: Focus on product instrumentation and analytics and iterate based on data and user insights.

What You’ll Need to Succeed
We’re looking for someone who:

• Can work remotely or from an Applied Systems office

Must Have:

• Payments & ERP Expertise: The Ideal candidate will have business acumen and product knowledge within the ERP & payments domain.
• Have a proven track record for building, launching and scaling successful products. Can take an idea/opportunity from a problem statement to a beautiful final product.
• Have a minimum of 10+ years of enterprise product management experience.
• Demonstrated ability to lead and partner with designers, engineers, and other cross-functional stakeholders.
• Strong communicator with the ability to bring people together to define a common vision and plan for action.
• Ability to work on multiple projects under pressure and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Additionally, you may have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, Management, or related field; or equivalent work experience preferred; MBA or technical degree a plus.
• Bilingual in French
• We proudly support and encourage people with military experience, as well as military spouses, to apply

Benefits from Day One

• Health insurance plans, dental, and vision
• Wellness incentives
• 401(k) and/or RRSP retirement savings plans with employer match

Work-Life Balance

• Competitive paid vacation time and a free day for your birthday
• Personal/sick time
• Paid holidays
• Flex Time
• Paid parental leave (U.S. candidates)
• Volunteer time off

Empowering Career Growth and Success – We invest in talent, care about our people and are empowered by the results of our work. We grow our teams from within and give our employees opportunities to advance.