ACI Worldwide
Sr Product Manager (Finance)
As leader of the product, clearly communicate and drive product strategy, direction, and vision; maintains
the roadmap and strategy for the product in sync with that for the product-line and the overall ACI
strategy. As the product champion, continually drive product adoption among the customer base and
target market, understand pain points and problems and address them in a timely fashion, with a constant
eye on maximizing the ROI for the product; Partner with marketing, product marketing and channels to
develop the GTM strategy; Stay engaged with the sales team and articulate the value proposition of the
product among customers and prospects alike. The product manager shall maintain an intimate
understanding of the payments industry and the competition to quickly identify opportunities and threats,
leverage our strengths and overcome our weaknesses while influencing the overall ACI product strategy.
The product manager shall be the "go to" person for the product and shall work cohesively with the
application development team, AOD, finance, sales, sales operations, legal and the business analysts,
representing the market and clearly conveying the requirements to ensure that the products are delivered
on time and within budget.
Job Responsibilities:
• Elicits and validates stakeholder requirements. Conducts research and data gathering to analyze
and determine appropriate solutions. Manages entire Requirements process to include
documentation preparation and presentation.
• Functions as the primary product and target market SME (subject matter expert); understands
competitive landscape from strategy to functional capabilities; defines the market and market
segments; Identifies customer and prospect problems and market opportunities; builds, updates,
and communicates the product line vision, strategy and 5-year road map for core stakeholders
and for external consumption.
• Drives the positioning and interaction of the product within the product portfolio and its integration
with other products. Defines and executes a distribution strategy for the product to achieve
growth targets at desired margin, and through optimal resource consumption. Sponsors
innovation that helps achieve the strategic plan.
• Responsible for comprehensive definition and cadence of product Release for a product line to
achieve the strategic plan, by identifying and delivering requirements that increase market share
and exploit ACI's breadth and depth of solutions across the payment processing lifecycle.
• Clearly articulates the value proposition and positioning of the product. Provides input to
solution/product marketing for the go-to-market plan and supports the launch team. Ensures all
sales enablement tools are delivered to schedule, and the sales team is trained proficiently.
Drives market acceptance by evangelizing product to all stakeholders. Monitors launch
effectiveness. Demonstrates thought leadership through participation in conferences, blogs and
published papers.
•Communicating the product vision and sharing product expertise with the agile team/s
• Setting priorities effectively, i.e. prioritizing the backlog, and ensuring that the team understands
why the stories are in a specific order to maximize the team's output
• Elaborating/publishing user story requirements in a timely fashion, clarifying user story requirements/answering team questions quickly and concisely and creating clear, testable acceptance criteria for stories
• Participating in scrum team meetings (grooming, planning, review, etc.)
• Engaging internal stakeholders and external contacts as needed to provide direction to the team
independently of Product Manager/ Principal Product Owner
• Provides guidance to other Product Owners while providing training/ acting as a mentor to junior
Product Owners
• Perform other duties as assigned.
• Understand and adhere to all corporate policies to include but not limited to the ACI Code of
Business Conduct and Ethics.
Knowledge, Skills and Experience required for the job:
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5 years related experience in an industry related role such as technical support, product management or product development type roles.
Preferred Knowledge, Skills and Experience needed for the job:
• Deep and broad understanding and experience in all aspects of product management, Agile development methodology.
Work Environment:
• Standard work environment