Product Director, Upside
Payments
5+ days a week in office
Mobile reward application for retail spending
Job no longer available
Mobile reward application for retail spending
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
5+ days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To advance the economic power of people living and working in the real world.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of product management experience, preferably in a FinTech, Payments, e-commerce, or marketplace startups
- 7+ years of product leadership inclusive of growing product teams
- BA/BS degree
- Excellent problem-solving, analytical, and influencing skills, with ability to take initiative and build strong, positive relationships
- Strong user empathy, with an ability to transform complex data and customer insights into product vision and a prioritized roadmap
What the job involves
- The Product team at Upside is composed of results-oriented individuals with a diverse set of experiences, all working diligently to ensure that our product delivers as much value as possible for our merchants and consumers
- Whether partnering with Engineering, Design, Marketing, or Sales, the Product team is committed to taking an experiment oriented approach to guarantee that data drives decisions
- We’re looking for a Payments Product Manager to use their FinTech or Payments experiences and build tremendous value for our Consumer users, Merchant clients, and the business
- You will enable the flow of significant volume ($) and transactions through our ecosystem, enhance how our Users interact with the places they love to shop, and how our Merchants view the profit brought to them by Upside
- You will lead all aspects of the newly formed Payments program to help Upside process Users’ payments through the app
- Lead a cross-functional team through strategic vision, defining a roadmap, prioritizing solutions based on business and user impact, and building and delivering products
- Build and update the appropriate documentation and/or reporting to maintain alignment across all partners (e.g., PRDs, Product Roadmap, etc.)
- Coordinate and run sound experiments to test and validate hypotheses
Our take
Loyalty systems, vouchers, and other special offers have a proven track record at winning over new customers for businesses. However, customers can be reluctant to sign up due to the sheer number of these schemes. Upside exists to unify these loyalty schemes with a single flexible reward app.
While retail reward platforms are nothing new, Upside functions more like a marketplace, linking participating businesses to potential customers. It also rewards customers with cash back on eligible purchases, a more flexible reward than is traditional in loyalty schemes.
With over 50,000 businesses enrolled and 30 million app users, Upside has grown into a major player in this sector. The company is well-funded and ever-expanding its offering, with a product that is increasingly appreciated by consumers in an expensive world, as well as the businesses who depend on their custom.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
24% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (1 round)
Apr 2022
$65m
SERIES D
Total funding: $65m
Company benefits
- Health and Wellness - We’re happy to provide our team members with generous health, vision, and dental insurance options
- Lunch - We cover the cost of lunch everyday for team members onsite to enhance our team building and encourage collaboration. Plus local restaurants appreciate it!
- Stock Options - Our team’s success is our company’s success, and we should all have a stake in that. We’re glad to offer our team members valuable stock options
- Unlimited PTO - Yes, you read that right. When you need time off, we’ve got you covered
Company HQ
Dupont Circle, Washington, DC
Leadership
Alex Kinnier
(CEO & Co-Founder)Experience as Group Product Manager for Google from 2005 to 2008. Senior Vice President of Products and Engineering for Opower from 2012 to 2015.
Wayne Lin
(CPO & Co-Founder)Experience as Product Manager for Google from 2005 to 2010. Vice President of Product Management & Analytics for Opower from 2010 to 2015.
Rick McPhee
(Co-Founder)Experience as Vice President of Engineering for HP's Fortify Software from 2008 to 2012. Senior Vice President of Engineering for Opower from 2012 to 2015.
Joanna Kochaniak
(Engineer & Co-Founder)Experience as Programmer Analyst for the Institute for Physical Sciences from 2007 to 2010. Lead Software Engineer for Opower from 2010 to 2015.
Jan Rubio
(Designer & Co-Founder)Experience as Research Assistant for George Washington University from 2009 to 2011. Senior Software Engineer for Opower from 2011 to 2016.
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