Strategic Product Insights-Payments-Vice President

Testing Site - JPMC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Testing Site - JPMC seeks a Vice President of Strategic Insights for Payments Acquiring’s Strategic Investments & Analytics group to lead customer-centric product strategy and profitable offerings. You will voice the customer, shape the roadmap, and partner with executives to ensure scalable, revenue-driven outcomes.

You will build analytics capabilities, deliver dashboards, and communicate insights to leadership.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of work experience in Product Strategy, Technology Strategy, Corporate Strategy, or Consulting.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Proven ability to lead and execute strategic planning within a technology product context.
• Advanced PowerPoint presentation skills for executive communications.
• Advanced Excel skills for data analysis and insights.
• Tableau expertise for data visualization and BI.
• Strong experience engaging senior-level stakeholders.
• Excellent attention to detail and thorough process documentation.

Responsibilities

• Drive decision-making and strategic insights with executives.
• Collaborate to build program delivery strategy and platform vision for Merchant Services.
• Identify KPIs and design dashboards with actionable insights.
• Build, maintain, and optimize reporting with SQL, Tableau, and Alteryx.
• Create compelling presentations communicating roadmap and goals for 1–2 years.
• Document strategic planning steps, requirements, and timelines.
• Use advanced Excel to analyze data for strategic insights.
• Lead multiple projects with effective prioritization.
• Foster teamwork and cross-functional collaboration.
• Communicate complex strategies to diverse stakeholders.

Skills

Strategic thinking

Analytical skills

Executive communication

PowerPoint

Excel

Tableau

Alteryx

Project management

Stakeholder leadership

Education

Bachelor’s degree

MBA (preferred)

Tools

SQL

Tableau

Alteryx

Job description

As the Vice President of Strategic Insights for Payments Acquiring’s Strategic Investments & Analytics group, you are an integral part of the team that innovates new product offerings. As a core leader, you are responsible for acting as the voice of the customer and developing profitable products that provide customer value. Utilizing your strong business acumen and deep understanding of what drives product success, you guide the successful launch of products, gather crucial feedback, and ensure top-tier client experiences. With a strong commitment to scalability, financial growth, and program-wide strategy, you collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that exceed customer expectations.

The Strategic Investments & Analytics group is responsible for driving an evolving suite of new platforms, products and services that process nearly $3 trillion in volume each year and power millions of businesses worldwide. The team owns the process for prioritizing and planning the delivery of enhancements and new solutions on the Payments Acquiring platform, as well as providing reporting and insights into the KPIs most relevant to its growth and performance. The Vice President of Strategic Insights will be a key leader within this group, shaping and facilitating global delivery roadmap decisions across key segments including e-Commerce, Omnichannel, Small Business, and Embedded Payments & Services. Tasked with building and communicating insights that drive decision-making and ensure success of the program, the successful candidate will be exceptionally skilled in analytics, with strong critical thinking skills and an ownership mindset. They will use strong executive presence, business acumen, and product strategy expertise to identify, build, and present insights that enable leaders to make effective investment decisions across competing client segments and global markets.

Responsibilities

• Leverage strong strategic thinking and analytical skills to drive decision-making processes both independently and in collaboration with executive leaders
• Collaborate with executive leaders to build a program delivery strategy and platform vision for Payments Acquiring’s Merchant Services business that delivers value to customers
• Collaborate with stakeholders to identify key performance insights and design dashboards that deliver actionable insights through interactive visualizations and automated reports.
• Build, maintain, and optimize reporting solutions using SQL, Tableau, and Alteryx to support business decision-making and operational efficiency.
• Build compelling PowerPoint presentations that effectively communicate the business' decisions, goals and plans from a strategic roadmap perspective for the next 1-2 years
• Build process documentation with detailed steps, preparation requirements, and timelines for every step of the strategic planning process
• Use advanced Excel skills, including complex formulas and visualizations, to manipulate and analyze data in a way that delivers the necessary strategic insights in a repeatable way
• Work across multiple projects simultaneously, demonstrating effective project management skills and prioritization instincts
• Foster a team-oriented mindset, leading within the team and collaborating with colleagues across the business to achieve shared goals
• Effectively communicate complex strategies and plans to diverse stakeholders

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 8+ years of work experience, with 5+ years in Product Strategy, Technology Strategy, Corporate Strategy, or Consulting; Bachelor’s degree required
• Proven ability to lead and execute strategic planning processes, including the development of short-term and long-term roadmaps, within a technology product context
• Experience with the delivery process for technology products, with a focus on aligning product strategy with business objectives in the payments domain
• Advanced PowerPoint presentation skills, with the ability to design, build and deliver compelling presentations that effectively communicate complex business strategies to executive leaders
• Advanced proficiency in data analysis, using tools such as Excel to extract insights and inform strategic decision-making processes
• Expertise in using Tableau for data visualization, with a track record of delivering impactful business intelligence solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to engage and lead discussions with senior-level stakeholders
• Strong attention to detail in designing and implementing processes, ensuring thorough documentation of each step
• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a team-oriented environment, fostering cooperation and being willing to take on whatever work is needed for success of the team and broader organization
• Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously, prioritizing tasks effectively to meet ambitious strategic goals.
• Effective verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to articulate complex strategies to diverse stakeholders.

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Proficiency using SQL for data extraction, transformation, and analysis
• Demonstrated success working within a highly matrixed, complex organization
• Success within a consulting firm or internal strategy team, with a demonstrated understanding of industry best practices and innovative strategy methodologies
• Experience or understanding of technology product delivery and/or the payments acquiring industry is highly preferred
• MBA or graduate degree in a related field preferred