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About the Role:

As a Product Commercialization Manager for Issuing Sponsorship and Agent Bank portfolio, you will lead the development and management of the bank’s sponsorship product offering, enabling fintechs, program managers, and embedded finance partners to launch and scale card issuing programs under the bank’s regulatory and network licenses as well as provide Product support to our agent bank portfolio. This role is responsible for owning the Visa and Mastercard issuing product stack across debit, prepaid, and credit use cases, ensuring full compliance, operational efficiency, and a partner-centric experience.

This is a critical product leadership role in a sponsor bank environment, where you will interface across product, compliance, operations, network partners, and clients to deliver robust, scalable issuing infrastructure.

What You Will Do:

• Develop and maintain comprehensive program documentation that addresses compliance, risk management, regulatory requirements, and other governance topics.
• Drive revenue growth by developing new solutions and expanding use of existing products.
• Partner with cross functional teams to set the product strategy, priorities, and roadmap.
• Understand the needs and problems of both Pathward partners and end users.
• Partner with internal areas to perform market research and discovery.
• Own strategic relationships with key third party partners. Recommend new relationships as needed.
• Manage the entire product life cycle from strategic planning to tactical implementations.
• Monitor and communicate product performance, key metrics, and relevant partner/user feedback.
• Drive the go-to-market strategy for new products and enhancements, working with various internal departments to execute.
• Manage product P/L. Support forecasting and annual budget planning.
• Develop industry expertise by attending industry events, consuming industry research, and analyzing the competitive landscape.
• Other duties as assigned.

What You Will Need:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent education and work experience. Master's degree preferred.
• 5+ years’ of prior industry experience with prepaid and/or deposit products required.
• Written and verbal communication
• Project and time Management
• Leadership

The responsibilities listed above are not all inclusive and may be changed at any time.

Salary range: $86,000 – $145,000

The salary range reflects the minimum and maximum target for a new hire in this role. Individual pay within the range will be determined by multiple factors which can include but are not limited to a candidate’s experience, qualifications, skills, and location. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary for your location during the hiring process. Ranges may be modified in the future.
This role is also eligible for an annual performance-based incentive opportunity. Pathward offers a comprehensive benefits package for eligible employees, including health insurance, 401(k) retirement benefits, life insurance, disability benefits, paid time off, and more.

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Don’t have everything listed under qualifications? If you’re excited about this role but your experiences don’t match exactly to everything in the posting, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other Pathward roles. Pathward is an equal employment opportunity employer and considers candidates for roles without regard to their race, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability or any other category protected by law.

Who we are:

Our commitment to inclusion is woven into our DNA. We believe that we are strongest when we embrace the voices of our employees, customers, partners, and the communities we serve.

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender status, pregnancy, national origin, age (age 40 and over), disability, genetic information, marital status, hair texture or hairstyle, ancestry, service in the uniformed services, protected veteran status, status as a victim of domestic violence or any other class protected by federal, state and local laws.

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