Vice President Product Manager - New Banking Architecture Delivery Platform

Testing Site - JPMC; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

JPMorgan Chase in Palo Alto seeks a Vice President Product Manager to lead the New Banking Architecture Delivery Platform. You will own strategy, roadmap, and delivery for Java-centric platform capabilities for developers and architects.

You will define API and framework standards, drive client-focused product value, and collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure scalable, resilient solutions. This is a senior, highly technical product leadership role.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in product management or relevant domain
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts
• Experience in technical product management or engineering leadership
• Proven delivery of API/schema governance, versioning, and CI policy gates
• Hands-on experience with Java/Spring stack and GraphQL APIs

Responsibilities

• Develops a product strategy and vision delivering value to customers
• Manages discovery efforts and market research to inform the roadmap
• Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog aligned to the roadmap
• Builds framework and tracks key metrics (cost, features, reliability)
• Define and govern REST and GraphQL API standards, versioning, and deprecation
• Define and enforce SLIs/SLOs, observability, and error budgets

Skills

Product management

Leadership

Java

APIs

Cloud architecture

Tools

Java 17+

Spring Boot 3.x

Spring Cloud

GraphQL

OpenAPI

Job description

Vice President Product Manager - New Banking Architecture Delivery Platform

Job Information

• Job Identification 210723247
• Job Category Product Management
• Business Unit Consumer & Community Banking
• Posting Date 03/16/2026, 06:56 PM
• Locations 3223 Hanover St, Palo Alto, CA, 94304, US
• Job Schedule Full time

About Us

Chase is a leading financial services firm, helping nearly half of America’s households and small businesses achieve their financial goals through a broad range of financial products. Our mission is to create engaged, lifelong relationships and put our customers at the heart of everything we do. We also help small businesses, nonprofits and cities grow, delivering solutions to solve all their financial needs.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veterans

Job Description

You enjoy shaping the future of product innovation as a core leader, driving value for customers, guiding successful launches, and exceeding expectations. Join our dynamic team and make a meaningful impact by delivering high-quality products that resonate with clients. Own the strategy, roadmap, and delivery of Java-centric platform/framework capabilities for developers and solution architects. Define enforceable API and framework standards, performance/resiliency targets, and developer experience for Spring-based microservices and GraphQL APIs. Operate in ambiguity, make principled tradeoffs, and produce crisp technical artifacts that unblock engineering.

As a Product Manager in New Banking Architecture Delivery Platform Team, you are an integral part of the team that innovates new product offerings and leads the end-to-end product life cycle. 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 deep understanding of how to get a product off the ground, you guide the successful launch of products, gather crucial feedback, and ensure top-tier client experiences. With a strong commitment to scalability, resiliency, and stability, you collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that exceed customer expectations.

Job responsibilities

• Develops a product strategy and product vision that delivers value to customers
• Manages discovery efforts and market research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap
• Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition
• Builds the framework and tracks the product's key success metrics such as cost, feature and functionality, risk posture, and reliability
• Set and evolve baselines for Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, WebFlux vs. MVC, GraphQL schema conventions
• Define and govern REST (OpenAPI-first, contract tests, versioning/deprecation SLAs) and GraphQL (SDL-first, schema registry/checks, persisted queries, deprecation policy).
• Define SLIs/SLOs and enforce error budgets, timeouts, retries with backoff/jitter, circuit breakers, bulkheads. Observability with OpenTelemetry (traces/metrics/logs), RED/USE dashboards; track p95/p99 latency and MTTR. Topic naming/versioning, partition/replica policy, compaction/retention, schema evolution (Avro/Protobuf), idempotency and ordering guidance.
• Define Security OAuth2/OIDC, mTLS, JWT claim standards, resolver-level auth for GraphQL; secrets management integration.
• Prioritize by cost of delay, reliability risk, developer productivity impact, and TCO; document ADRs for major choices.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• 5+ years of experience or equivalent expertise in product management or a relevant domain area
• Advanced knowledge of the product development life cycle, design, and data analytics
• Proven ability to lead product life cycle activities including discovery, ideation, strategic development, requirements definition, and value management
• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years of applied experience
• Experience in product management or a relevant domain area
• 5+ years in technical product management or engineering leadership; prior Java developer experience
• Hands-on experience with: Java 17+, Spring Boot 3.x, Spring Cloud, Spring Security, WebFlux vs. MVC, Resilience4j, Spring Data JPA/R2DBC. Kafka: partitions/consumer groups, compaction/retention, schema evolution, idempotency, lag management. GraphQL: schema design/federation, persisted queries, query limits, N+1 mitigation (DataLoader).
• Proven delivery of API/schema governance, versioning/deprecation, and CI policy gates.
• Developer productivity: time-to-first-hello-world, framework adoption, migration cycle time.
• Reliability/performance: SLO attainment, p95/p99 latency, error budget burn, Kafka consumer lag, GraphQL query cost/failure rates. Governance: contract test coverage, schema validation pass rate, deprecations completed within SLA

Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Demonstrated prior experience working in a highly matrixed, complex organization

This position is subject to Section 19 of the Federal Deposit Insurance Act. As such, an employment offer for this position is contingent on JPMorganChase's review of criminal conviction history, including pretrial diversions or program entries.

About the Team

Our Consumer & Community Banking division serves our Chase customers through a range of financial services, including personal banking, credit cards, mortgages, auto financing, investment advice, small business loans and payment processing. We're proud to lead the U.S. in credit card sales and deposit growth and have the most-used digital solutions - all while ranking first in customer satisfaction.