Bread, a division of Alliance Data, is a technology-driven payments company that partners with merchants and partners to personalize payment options for their customers. Bread integrates directly with merchants on their e-commerce site and gives them a single platform that lets them offer more ways to pay over time. Bread’s full-funnel recommendation engine serves up the right options at the right time, empowering merchants to sell more, improve conversion, and lift average-order-value. 

Bread has enormous and engaging product and technical opportunities. We need to integrate across merchant sales channels to deliver conversion maximizing consumer experiences. Our Product and Engineering teams are seasoned, talented, agile, and quickly growing. 

We are looking to hire a Director of Product Management to lead our Merchant Vertical. As a key member of the Product Leadership team, reporting to our VP, Head of Product and Analytics, you will lead our Merchant Product Team to drive product strategy, execution, and iteration on our connectivity into the payments ecosystem. The Merchant team helps to build out and improve our B2B suite of solutions, with the goal of empowering our merchant and partner customers to understand, manage, and optimize their end-to-end experience with Bread. You will collaborate closely with senior leaders in Design, Engineering, Partnerships, Success and Enablement to deliver high quality solutions that unlock step function growth for Bread.

We have an ambitious agenda set out for the next year, and product development is key to enabling our business, process, and customers to scale. We’re looking for individuals who are results-oriented problem solvers to build innovative products and features that will help us achieve our mission of transforming consumer finance.

Your role at Bread:

• You will own and drive the strategic vision and roadmap for our Merchant team
• You will partner with leaders in Product and across Bread to develop a well-grounded strategy, driven by data, user and market research, and internal insights. 
• Develop a deep understanding of our current and future merchant customers—their business needs, their day-to-day activities, and their workflows—to understand how to evolve existing features and explore new ideas that deliver customer value
• Individually and as a manager, you will partner closely with Design and Engineering to bring that vision and roadmap to life, driving measurable top and bottom line growth for Bread.
• Translate broad Merchant team objectives into a roadmap, tactical goals, priorities, and OKRs for your cross-functional product team
• You will coach and grow your team members into long-term company leaders. You will hire onto and and scale your team in line with the company strategy and needs.
• As a key member of the Product Leadership Team, you will own and drive improvement to internal and cross functional team processes and practices. 

What we are looking for: 

• 8+ years of product leadership experience for a Payments company where you built technology-enabled lending products and experiences
• Deep familiarity with the payments ecosystem and emerging technologies and solutions in payments
• Experience building and delivering on strategic partner-facing roadmaps
• Ability to blend strategic and tactical execution skills; drive high-level strategy as well as dive into the weeds and get hands-on when needed
• Effective communicator who cares about people and can build relationships and alignment both internally and externally
• Built, led and developed a high-performing team, scaling from 1 to 5+ team members; experience leading a remote/distributed team environment a plus
• Clear understanding and ability to explain the business opportunity and technical decisions behind your product portfolio