Lead Engineering Product Manager

About the role

As a Lead Engineering Product Manager on the Banking Platform team, you'll be responsible for developing the strategy and roadmaps, monitoring and communicating progress, and defining functional requirements for new products and features. The area of focus will be on the underlying banking platform of Chime, enabling card transactions, ACH, peer to peer money movement, and money transfers for all future products and features. You'll partner with Engineering, Product, Infrastructure, Security, Machine Learning, Banking Partners, and other cross-functional partners to prioritize work based on impact and drive strong execution. 

Our team is seeking a person with a strong technical background and experience with developing the software interfaces to abstract and access banking services.  Importantly, you thrive on building something new.

For Colorado based roles: In accordance with applicable law, this role has an annual starting salary of $176,000 plus bonus, a competitive equity package, and benefits (see below). The actual pay may be higher depending on your location, skills, qualifications, and experience.

In this role, you can expect to

• Serve as product owner for part of our banking platform; developing the backlog, capturing requirements, and shipping product incrementally in collaboration with engineering
• Collaborate with technical, product, and design leaders across Chime to learn and understand their requirements, manage dependencies, and plan for their future needs
• Build strong relationships with Chime’s partners to align requirements and reduce velocity bottlenecks
• Communicate progress, value, and blockers to the wider business
• Establish metrics for measuring velocity and success of product initiatives

To thrive in this role, you have

• 7+ years of product management experience
• Technical skills, with experience and track record of success in building high-velocity, low-latency, high-availability services
• The ability to be practical and are eager to collaborate/compromise to get to the best, most efficient outcome
• A clear metrics-oriented focus
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally to align stakeholders on the goals and behaviors required for success
• B.S. in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent experience.

A little about us

We created Chime because we believe everyone deserves financial peace of mind. By eliminating unnecessary fees and helping people grow their savings automatically, we’ve empowered millions of Americans to take control of their finances. 

Chime is the largest and fastest-growing U.S. player in the challenger-banking space. Through our banking partners, we offer access to bank accounts with fee-free overdraft, provide members the chance to receive early access to their paychecks, help them improve their credit, and more!

We’ve built one of the most experienced leadership teams in Fintech and were recently valued at over $25.5B. We’ve raised over $1.7B in funding from leading investors including Sequoia Capital Global Equities, SoftBank Vision Fund 2, General Atlantic, Tiger Global, Dragoneer, DST, Coatue, Iconiq, Menlo Ventures and others.

What we offer

• ? Competitive salary based on experience
• ✨ 401k match plus the usual medical, dental, vision, life, and disability benefits
• ?  Quarterly stipend to spruce up your home office 
• ?  Generous vacation policy and company-wide Take Care of Yourself Days 
• ?  Virtual events to connect with your fellow Chimers- think cooking classes, music festivals, mixology classes, paint nights etc., and delicious snack boxes, too!
• ?  A challenging and fulfilling opportunity to join one of the most experienced teams in FinTech and help create a completely new kind of banking service

We know that great work comes from great, and inclusive, teams. At Chime, we specifically look for individuals of varying strengths, skills, backgrounds, and ideas. We believe this gives us a competitive advantage to better serve our members, and helps us all grow as Chimers and individuals.

We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. Chime is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer and will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. To learn more about how Chime collects and uses your personal information during the application process, please see the Chime Applicant Privacy Notice.

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