Director, Platform Product Management

Millions in the U.S. continue to be underserved or ignored by traditional financial institutions. At Stash, an investing app for more than 2 million active subscribers, we are addressing that reality by giving everyday Americans the confidence to take charge of their money and financial future. Our plans—starting at just $3 a month—provide easy and affordable access to a suite of products including investing, banking, education, and advice. Stashers are 18% more financially literate than the average American, and customers rely on Stash’s unique tools, guardrails, and content to learn about money and build wealth for the long-term. 

In 2022, we made tremendous steps forward in the Stash customer experience, through the launches of Stash Core, a new banking account experience featuring access to an upgraded Stock-Back® Debit Mastercard®, enhanced customer support, and refreshed benefits, including increased rewards; and expanded access to cryptocurrency through a separate crypto account offering. 

Our Talented Team 

We are proud to attract phenomenal individuals who share our commitment to unlocking financial opportunity for a new generation of investors. Their unique perspectives, backgrounds, and experiences have helped create a thriving and inclusive culture based on the notion of “Prioritizing People,” a Stash core value.  

Let’s solve complex problems and tackle wealth inequality.

Stash is seeking an experienced Director of Platform Product Management to join our team. In this role, you will be responsible for establishing and driving the overarching product platform strategy for the Money Movement Platform domain. You will be responsible for setting the direction and responsible for facilitating the movement of funds on behalf of our customers, ensuring that all transactions are routed and processed accurately, securely, and quickly. We strive to provide straightforward and transparent mechanisms to move funds on, off and within the platform.

The Money Movement Platform teams at Stash is at the center of everything we do for our customers and for the business:

• Funding Instruments - Responsible for validating and maintaining the connection points necessary to securely move funds on and off our platform.
• Transaction Orchestration - Managing the entry point and overseeing all one-time and scheduled money movements into, out of, and around our platform - including deposits, withdrawals, subscription collection, intra-company transfer.
• Financial Operations - Responsible for managing complex financial money movements, treasury management and accounting to ensure the health and soundness of Stash’s operations

Roles & Responsibilities:

Our team works with Design, Engineering, and stakeholders to deliver the tooling these teams need to perform critical functions that have significant customer and business impact. Specifically in this role, you will:

• Define and communicate the vision, strategy, and goals that supports the Stash overall platform vision and the Money Movement domain to achieve its next level of maturity 
• Help shape and continually improve the product development process as we continue to grow and specifically education the broader organization about Platform Product Management.
• Champion the platform mindset and best practices, contribute to, and influence highly technical decisions working with senior engineering partners. 
• Inform build vs. buy decisions that effectively scale our money movement platform from current state into a more mature seamless application suite and capability set
• Manage relationships with key external partners that help facilitate seamless money operations for our customers.
• Partner with the broader Products & Experiences teams to ensure money movement solutions integrate seamlessly.
• Ensure we build and maintain high quality change management, user acceptance testing, and release management processes
• Coach and develop other product managers on the team, in addition to being a strong individual contributor
• Foster an environment that enables the team to execute quickly while maintaining a high standard for quality, reliability, and remarkability.

Professional Qualifications

• 5-10 years of experience in Product Management at technology companies preferably, and familiarity with FinTech products and concepts
• 4+ years of experience managing and hiring other Product Managers
• 3+ years of experience with payments in the US payments ecosystem, consumer payment processing (debit/credit/ACH).  Bonus points for subscriptions.
• Experience defining strategic vision and tactical execution to build large scale subscription and pay