Product Director, Payments

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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.

ABOUT THE TEAM
Varo’s Product Team is a cornerstone of the culture and the app experiences that our customers interact with on a daily basis. We’re responsible for making sure the products we ship provide innovative solutions that solve real problems for people.

We appreciate the value of getting into the mental models of our customers and out of our offices. We bring together cross-functional teams to act on a combination of qualitative and quantitative data to meet our customer needs and commercial plans. We thrive on feedback and push to always up our game—but try to never take ourselves too seriously.

ABOUT THE ROLE
We are seeking a Payments Product Lead to create, lead and deliver our person to person payments roadmap. Your objective will be to rapidly expand our payments capabilities to meet core customer needs.

WHAT YOU'LL DO

  • Use your deep payments expertise to establish a vision and roadmap for Varo Payments
  • Create thought-leadership and evangelize payments across the organization, as well as to establish Varo externally as an important voice in the Payments industry
  • Own the performance of Varo’s payments product suite: optimizing for meeting customer needs in terms of speed, convenience and access, while controlling for fraud, operational costs and cost of any 3rd party solutions
  • Work with leaders across data, engineering, design, UXR, marketing, risk and ops to create innovative products for our customer base
  • Establish commercial goals and KPIs for Payments, through analysis of  quantitative and qualitative data 
  • Use data to optimize product performance, and identify opportunities
  • Lead product managers who will be responsible for driving product initiatives from inception through launch and beyond

    • SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES THAT'LL HELP MAKE YOU GREAT

  • Deep experience with the payments industry and passion for pushing the boundaries of payments technology
  • Strong analytical skills, with the ability to gather, structure and analyze data to create targets, monitor performance and build product recommendations
  • Ability to influence, negotiate and drive performance with stakeholders across the organization
  • You understand Varo’s customer base and are keen to build payments solutions that work for all customers, regardless of their background
  • Strong execution capability, with experience of driving multiple products to market and to scale
  • Be excited by working at a growth-stage company
  • You have 10+ years of experience in payments product leadership or payments technology 

    • THE THREE SKILLS THAT MATTER MOST
    Nobody can be great at everything, but we're looking for candidates who are extraordinary at:
  • Passion for the Payments industry and payments technology 
  • Enjoy analyzing quantitative and qualitative data to make good decisions
  • Achieving goals as part of a team
    • About Varo
    We're on a mission to bring financial inclusion and opportunity to all hard-working Americans. Through our mobile app, we offer premium bank accounts that have no minimum balance requirement or monthly account fees, high-interest savings accounts, short-term lending, and solutions to help customers stretch their paycheck, build credit and start saving. Our tech-first products are designed to make money work for everyone and help customers and communities build greater financial resiliency.

    Varo is distinct from other fintechs: we've made history as the first and only consumer fintech to be granted a full national bank charter by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).

    Varo Bank represents the evolution of a new generation of banks that are born from innovation and built on technology to empower consumers and businesses.

    Our team combines the best of both consumer tech and banking, and we’re wildly passionate about helping our customers. Our teams are based in San Francisco and Salt Lake City. Privately held, we’ve raised over $482M to date, from leading institutional investors and strategic partners including Warburg Pincus, The Rise Fund, Gallatin Point Capital, Harbourvest Partners, Progressive Insurance, and Russell Westbrook Enterprises.

    Varo is entrepreneurial, collaborative, enthusiastic, customer-oriented, fast-paced, and multicultural.  This is an open and relatively flat organization that puts an emphasis on collaboration, sharing ideas and information. For a relatively early-stage company, Varo is grounded in a strong set of values and takes pride in the diversity of its employees. 

    Varo. A bank for all of us.

    Our Core Values
    - Customers First
    - Take Ownership
    - Respect
    - Stay Curious
    - Make it Better


    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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