Key Responsibilities
- Own the strategy and roadmap for customer fee products, including surcharging, dual pricing, cash discounting, and service fee programs across NMIβs omnichannel platform.
- Lead discovery and research to understand merchant and partner needs, market trends, and regulatory developments that influence customer fee adoption and interchange optimization.
- Define clear product requirements and success metrics that balance business goals, partner enablement, compliance, and end-customer experience.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams (engineering, legal, compliance, sales and marketing) to design, develop, and launch compliant customer fee solutions that align with card brand and state regulations.
- Partner with internal stakeholders and external vendors to assess buy vs. build opportunities and ensure the right strategic partnerships are leveraged to accelerate product delivery.
- Ensure regulatory compliance and risk mitigation, maintaining alignment with card networks, processors, and legal and compliance teams throughout the lifecycle of customer fee initiatives.
- Support commercial teams in developing go-to-market strategies, partner enablement materials, and sales training to ensure effective positioning and adoption.
- Analyze program performance and customer feedback to optimize pricing strategies, adoption rates, and partner satisfaction.
- Act as subject matter expert on customer fee programs, educating internal and external teams on market positioning, compliance nuances, and best practices.
- Monitor the competitive landscape to identify emerging trends, competitive differentiators, and strategic opportunities to enhance NMIβs offering.
Requirements
- 5+ years of payments industry product management experience, including proven experience bringing customer fee solutions, like surcharging, to market in the US.
- Practical product experience across customer insights, product strategy and planning, execution, data driven outcomes, and leadership.
- Experience in vendor selection and management as well as buy-build analysis.
- Ability to break down market trends, customer & sales feedback and competitive intelligence into well defined, concise product strategy plans.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with customers, business and technical team members across the organization
- Strong interpersonal skills and an effective communication style
- Understanding of agile scrum methodologies
- Ability to effectively communicate and work in a distributed environment with colleagues located in different geographical regions and across various levels of departments and organizations to facilitate meetings with a business and a technical audience
- A Bachelor's degree in business management, computer science, engineering, accounting, economics, finance or a related field preferred
- This position requires some travel to partner sites, conferences, and in-person team planning meetings (about 10%)
We Offer
- Competitive salary + bonus
- A remote first culture!
- Flex PTO
- Health, Dental and Vision Insurance
- 13 Paid Holidays
- Company volunteer days