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About the Role

Lead and coach Product Owners, owning the API portfolio strategy and roadmap. Drive product governance, performance management, and alignment across functions. Shape investment cases and partnerships, leading a team of Product Owners and influencing senior stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Lead and coach Product Owners, setting clear product outcomes, decision rights, and ways of working.
• Ensure high-quality backlogs, well-formed hypotheses, and consistent discovery/delivery practices across squads.
• Own the API portfolio strategy and roadmap, defining the multi-year API ambition and maintaining a prioritized roadmap.
• Run product governance and performance management, establishing OKRs/KPIs and driving quarterly business reviews.
• Manage trade-offs and escalate risks/decisions through agreed governance forums.
• Align delivery across functions, partnering with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Risk, Legal/Compliance, and Operations.
• Ensure APIs meet non-functional requirements and are fit for regulated environments.
• Drive customer and market alignment by engaging priority clients and ecosystem partners.
• Validate problems, test propositions, and guide adoption.
• Work with Business Development and Industry Engagement to ensure messaging and go-to-market plans reinforce strategy.
• Shape investment cases and partnerships, building business cases and quantifying benefits.
• Support evaluation of partnerships/inorganic opportunities.
• Set product standards and decision cadence.
• Influence senior stakeholders without always having direct authority.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science or related field.
• 7–10 years of experience in product management, platform/API product, business product leadership, or strategy/program leadership.
• Experience leading Product Owners (directly or in a matrix).
• Experience building and scaling API products (internal/external), including roadmap ownership, adoption metrics, and developer experience.
• Banking industry knowledge (products, operations, and the regulatory environment) and experience applying it to platform/API delivery decisions.
• Experience working with Engineering and Architecture teams on non-functional requirements (security, resilience, data protection, observability).
• Experience interacting with and presenting to senior stakeholders, translating complex topics into decisions and action.
• Proven ability to lead complex, multi-workstream initiatives with high visibility and executive engagement.
• Ability to balance strategic intent with pragmatic delivery.
• Exposure to financial services/market infrastructures and/or digital assets/tokenization concepts is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrable ability to learn quickly in regulated domains.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align Product, Technology, Risk, Legal/Compliance, Operations, and Go-to-Market teams.
• Experience engaging clients and ecosystem partners to validate needs and drive adoption.

Skills

• Product Management
• Platform/API Product
• Business Product Leadership
• Strategy/Program Leadership
• Leading Product Owners
• API Product Scaling
• Roadmap Ownership
• Adoption Metrics
• Developer Experience
• Banking Industry Knowledge
• Platform/API Delivery
• Non-functional Requirements
• Stakeholder Management
• Financial Services
• Market Infrastructures
• Digital Assets
• Tokenization

Location

• Virginia

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• 7-10 years
• Senior

Education Level

• Bachelor's Degree

Salary/Compensations

• $147,163.00 - $273,303.00 USD Annual

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Retirement plan
• Matching 401k

About the Company

• World’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium.
• Supports the global economy by enabling secure financial messaging.
• Unique organization established to find a better way for the global financial community to move value.
• Operates in 200+ countries and legal territories, serving over 12,000 banks and financial institutions.
• Constantly evolving and innovating in an ever-changing landscape.
• Dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive environment where everyone's voice counts.
• Committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process.
• Transforming cross-border payments, making them faster and more transparent.
• Offers unparalleled exposure to knowledge, expertise, and technologies.
• Provides opportunities for different career paths and work in various teams, departments, and disciplines globally.
• A collaborative, friendly, open, and inclusive environment.
• Trusted every instant, with a focus on making an impact every day.

Equal Opportunity

• We are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation related to accessibility during your application or interview, please contact accessibility-Sysgroup@swift.com or indicate this in your application.
• Don’t meet every single requirement? At Swift, we are dedicated to building a workplace where people can bring their full selves and ideas to the team, so if you are excited about this role, we encourage you to apply even if you do not meet every single qualification.