Senior Product Owner

Why Join Q2?

Q2 is a leading provider of digital banking and lending solutions to banks, credit unions, alternative finance companies, and fintechs in the U.S. and internationally. Our mission is simple: build strong and diverse communities through innovative financial technology—and we do that by empowering our people to help create success for our customers.

What Makes Q2 Special?

The Job At-A-Glance:

An early pioneer and leader in Banking as a Service and embedded finance, Helix by Q2 is on a mission to make finance human and is behind some of the biggest names in fintech banking today. Over the years, we’ve worked with amazing clients like Square, Credit Karma, Betterment, Acorns, and many others to launch next-generation financial services that are redefining banking for millions of everyday Americans nationwide. As we scale our platform into the tens of millions of users, we’re looking to bring on a Product Owner – Money Movement to own the product lifecycle for some of our key products and help us define the embedded finance ecosystem of the future.

As a Product Owner – Money Movement on the Helix team, you will be responsible for organizing and executing a product delivery strategy for your focus areas, which will include projects like FedNow, ACH, Wire Transfers and over time will encompass other real-time payment opportunities.  Your work will focus primarily on the product functionality we build alongside our 3rd party partners – you’ll be uncovering client and bank needs, accurately scoping effort, creating robust documentation, developing product delivery goals, and actively managing the product roadmap for your functional area. Think of yourself as the glue that ties together Q2’s Banking as a Service platform: working with all the different parts of our group to help us launch new products and evolve our existing ones so our clients can continue defining the cutting edge of banking.

You are the bottom-line for your product – you own the tradeoffs, define what exactly we’re building, and work to ensure that we deliver in an excellent way that considers the myriad of interdependencies we deal with on a daily basis. You’ll be at the front lines with our 3rd party partners, working with them to evolve our roadmap and ensuring that we’re building our architecture in a thoughtful way. If done well, you’ll be able to drive our product strategy from the ground up and see your products come to life as our clients launch them to millions of users across the country. If you’re product-focused, scrappy, driven, and a great problem solver – you’ll feel right at home on our team.

A Typical Day:

• Work with Product leadership to develop and effectively prioritize the product backlog
• Experience partnering with and understanding technology development
• Partner with clients, development, operations, external partners, and cross-functional leaders to identify, build and measure features and functionality that meet business goals
• Manage the product implementation side of key third party relationships for card processing, fraud management, and other critical features
• Define product functionality and write detailed User Stories/Epics with empathy for the end user that help engineers build with a clear end goal in mind
• Provide scope for a release and define release timing and strategy
• Work with the team to define each sprint plan, review completed work, and accept/reject results. This person is highly available to the team
• Apply Agile methods and processes to promote a disciplined software development process that encourages frequent inspection and adaptation of ongoing work product
• Create product documentation for developers, clients, and banks to ensure alignment, expedite product development, and grow our knowledge base and API
• Articulate product vision and user stories in a manner clearly understandable to development teams and clients

Bring Your Passion, Do What You Love. Here’s What We’re Looking For:

• Typically requires and a minimum of 8 years of related experience; or an advanced degree with 6+ years of experience; or equivalent related work experience.
• Previous financial services, payment product management, or fintech experience highly preferred, partnerships a plus
• Familiarity with various payment types including but not limited to ACH, Wires, FedNow, The Clearing House, real-time payments, and card payments is highly preferred
• Well-versed in process management, demonstrated ability to manage complex rollouts with multiple stakeholders – has launched products at scale
• Strong teamwork, organization, and problem-resolution skills
• Excellent verbal, written, presentation, and interpersonal skills
• Self-starter with a proven ability to deliver results with minimal assistance is a must 
• Highly determined and driven to achieve results with a clear track record of doing so
• Scrappy; quick to find the best path to a goal by collaborating with others
• An intuitive problem solver comfortable operating in ambiguity
• Detail-oriented with an eye for data analysis
• An effective communicator that can align internal and external stakeholders

This position requires fluent written and oral communication in English.

Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Health & Wellness

• Hybrid Work Opportunities

• Flexible Time Off 

• Career Development & Mentoring Programs 

• Health & Wellness Benefits, including competitive health insurance offerings and generous paid parental leave for eligible new parents 

• Community Volunteering & Company Philanthropy Programs 

• Employee Peer Recognition Programs – “You Earned it”

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Our Culture & Commitment:

We’re proud to foster a supportive, inclusive environment where career growth, collaboration, and wellness are prioritized. And our benefits go beyond healthcare—offering resources for physical, mental, and professional well-being. Click here to find out more about the benefits we offer. Q2 employees are encouraged to give back through volunteer work and nonprofit support through our Spark Program (see more). We believe in making an impact—in the industry and in the community.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or veteran status.

Applicants in California or Washington State may not be exempt from federal and state overtime requirements