Product Manager, Payments

Varo is an entirely new kind of bank. All digital mission-driven FDIC insured and designed for the way our customers live their lives. A bank for all of us.

We believe everyone deserves financial empowerment. At Varo our Product team is at the heart of this mission collaborating across departments and using both customer insights and hard data to build products that solve everyday problems. Were just getting started on our growth trajectory - Be a part of transforming banking with us.

About the role

We are seeking a Product Manager to join our Banking and Payments team to define lead and deliver key aspects of our payments roadmap Your objective will be to rapidly grow use of our consumer facing payment products through analysis research informed product strategies well written product requirements and quarterbacking product development through successful launch and operations of new and improved products and features.

Were looking for an individual with the skill to converge customer and business needs through deep understanding of payment rail capabilities and user experience. Our goal is to go beyond the utility needs of payments to delight our customers with money movement that is fast frictionless intelligent and transparent. This role will be responsible for initiatives end to end from performing customer and market research to designing the product to developing and implementing the products and measuring the results and identifying opportunities to iterate.

• Define product strategies and business cases in order to appropriately prioritize product opportunities

• Create and drive epics and user stories in support of state of the art money movement and deposit capabilities

• Establish thought leadership in payments experiences

• Manage product performance focusing on customer needs driving growth and controlling costs

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering data science design marketing operations etc.) to build and grow solutions

• Develop and present detailed product deliverables to cross functional stakeholders and executives

• Stay updated on industry trends and best practices

• Remove team obstacles and champion payments initiatives across Varo

• 5 years of related work experience with 3 years in Product Management

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in payments and or consumer banking fintech

• Experience leveraging Claude or comparable LLM product to support your research accelerate product definition and analysis work and improve the quality and velocity of contribution

• Familiarity with UX paradigms and best practices

• A measurement mindset - you know when to launch with holdouts A/B tests or multi-armed bandits; you cant wait to evaluate results and recommend next steps

• A bias towards action - youll find a way to get the insights you need to help inform your decision making

• Ability to distill complex information into clear and succinct strategy documents and actionable PRDs to sell your vision

• Technical proficiency to collaborate with engineers to develop technical architecture of products youll be building

For cash compensation we set standard ranges for all US-based roles based on function level and geographic location benchmarked against similar-stage growth companies. Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors as well as candidate experience and expertise and may vary from the identified range.

This role is also eligible for a bonus equity and competitive benefits.

Varo is an equal opportunity employer. Varo embraces diversity and we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds perspectives and skills. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race color religion sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin veteran or disability status.

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