Group Product Manager: Payments

Why Solstice Analytics Founded over 16 years ago, with more recent investments from Accel-KKR, Solstice Analytics is a leader in digital banking fraud prevention and payment security, including mobile authentication, mobile app security, and 3D Secure authentication for issuers, acquirers and payment networks. We offer highly scalable products with a track record of success across multiple continents. Solstice Analytics enables secure digital transactions for leading financial institutions globally. We exist to create a world where everyone can transact digitally without fear or compromise. Currently, we protect the digital transactions of over 210 million active users on our platform and hold 120 active patents that recognize innovation in digital security, payments, and user experience. Solstice Analytics offers customers secure authentication and digital payments experiences that remove unnecessary friction. Solstice Analytics has a diverse product portfolio and aggressive roadmap that positions the company well to sustain competitive advantage as it expands globally with emphasis on North America and European markets. The Ideal Candidate Solstice Analytics is looking for a Group Product Manager to lead initiatives and outcomes for our EMV 3-D Secure (3DS) Access Control Server (ACS) product. Your passion for the payments space is only matched by your desire to design great user experiences while fighting fraud. You channel your expertise at the intersection of payments, authentication, fraud prevention, regulation, and user experience to develop and execute product strategies aligned with Solstice Analytics ’s strategic vision. You have deep familiarity with various participants in the payments space including Card Issuers, Processors, Acquirers, Merchants and Card Networks. You focus on building solutions that operate in highly regulated environments while rethinking how user journeys can be improved within the boundaries of these industry specifications. You’re eager to move the industry forward with your active participation in standard bodies and evangelizing for the customer. You’ve perhaps worked as an engineering or solutions architect and have gained hands-on knowledge of various technical aspects around authentication, payments security and fraud prevention. You’re a product person at heart and can define product strategies, curate product roadmaps, and lead direct and cross functional teams in a hands-on manner. The Role This Group Product Manager role will be responsible for Solstice Analytics ’s EMV 3D Secure (3DS) Access Control Server (ACS) product portfolio’s functional and financial success. You will own the strategy and drive product development of product features that deliver secure and unique payment authentication experiences to millions of users globally each day. The role will require deep expertise of EMV 3D Secure standard and related protocols. You will leverage proven expertise to design and develop products that are compliant with PCI-DSS, PCI-3DS and privacy regulations such as GDPR. This role requires deep understanding of the various components, technologies and moving parts that make up Solstice Analytics ’s 3D Secure products, platform, and operations. You will regularly interface with payment networks globally to achieve multi-party compliance and certification while promoting Solstice Analytics ’s unique value proposition. The role hinges upon expert-level understanding of the payments ecosystem, EMV 3DS protocol, issuer authentication flows, and modern digital identity technologies. This position requires extensive and ongoing stakeholder management across Solstice Analytics and beyond. You will guide and mentor other members of the product team while collaborating closely with Solstice Analytics colleagues across commercial and technical functions globally. You are committed to Agile product development and take pride in ensuring you articulate clear achievable objectives for your teams, enabling them to build incremental value into our product offering. You are passionate about customer success and look for every opportunity to gather, analyze and incorporate feedback. Finally, you are data driven and lead by example by championing the use of “metrics that matter” to measure, monitor and improve on a continuous basis. Responsibilities Lead a team through the ideation, technical development, and launch of innovative features and products that make up Solstice Analytics ’s EMV 3DS ACS product portfolio. Communicate product vision, progress, and results of these services to clients and stakeholders across the organization to ensure adoption and awareness. Define and execute roadmap for Solstice Analytics ’s EMV 3DS ACS platform. Develop product narratives, requirements and specifications for product features and enhancements. Represent Solstice Analytics on global bodies such as EMVCo and influence standards evolution. Serve as internal subject matter expert on these specifications. Interface with Card Schemes such as Mastercard, Visa, American Express to champion Solstice Analytics product offerings and contr