Job Summary

The Lead Product Manager will work to enhance features and products that optimize the consumer experience. This role is responsible for the strategy, planning, delivery, performance, and continuous improvement of new and existing products and capabilities. This role requires a proven leader with the energy and skills to envision the right customer experience, drive execution, and scale features to seize business opportunities and support rapid growth.

Essential Job Functions

• Own the product and plans the product roadmap. Creates and defines the long-term vision and strategy for the products and features for a diverse set of customers. This involves strategic planning and execution to ensure alignment with business objectives.  - (30%)
• Work with designers, engineers, and business stakeholders to define, prioritize, and deliver high-impact product features using agile methodology.  - (25%)
• Lead feedback gathering, metric definition, and analysis to validate assumptions, inform roadmap priority, and monitor product success. - (20%)
• Manage multiple initiatives and projects simultaneously, while maintaining the product roadmap and backlog.  - (15%)
• Understands key financial measures and synthesizes financial metrics around the product concepts.  - (10%)

Minimum Qualifications

• High School Diploma or GED
• 8+ years experience in product management, business analysis, information technology, or related areas

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Marketing, Management, Finance, or Information Technology.
• 10+ years experience in product management, business analysis, information technology, or related areas
• Demonstrated expertise in credit card and Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) capabilities, including digital acquisition, prequalification, instant credit, servicing, fraud, rewards, and partner-facing integrations through APIs and SDKs.
• Proven ability to communicate complex product capabilities to clients, brands, and business stakeholders, influence decisions, and drive buy-in and adoption.

Skills

• Financial Acumen
• Customer Analytics
• Product Delivery
• Strategy Execution
• Product Management
• Marketing
• Product Performance
• Program Strategy
• Agile Product Development
• Product Roadmapping

Reports To: Senior Manager and above

Direct Reports: 0

Work Environment

• Normal office environment. (Remote or Hybrid), 3 to 4 days per month are required in office if within 60 miles of a posted Bread Financial location.

Travel

• Ability to travel up to 5% annually

Physical and Mental Requirements

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential job function satisfactorily and meet the physical, mental and work environment requirements. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to perform essential job functions, absent undue hardship.

• Communicate/Hearing
• Communicate/Talking
• Stationary Position/Seated
• Typing/Writing
• Maintain focus in high pressure or fast-paced work environment

Other Duties

This job description is illustrative of the types of duties typically performed by this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive listing of each and every essential function of the job. Because job content may change from time to time, the Company reserves the right to add and/or delete essential functions from this job at any time.

Salary Range (unless otherwise noted below):

$120,500.00 - $218,300.00

Full Salary Range for position:

California: $138,600.00 - $272,900.00Colorado: $120,500.00 - $229,200.00New York: $132,500.00 - $272,900.00Washington: $126,500.00 - $251,100.00Maryland: $126,500.00 - $240,200.00Washington DC: $138,600.00 - $251,100.00Illinois: $120,500.00 - $240,200.00New Jersey: $138,600.00 - $251,100.00Vermont: $120,500.00 - $218,300.00Ohio: $120,500.00 - $218,300.00

 

Maine: $120,500.00 - $218,300.00

 

Connecticut: $132,500.00 - $240,200.00

 

Virginia: $120,500.00 - $218,300.00

The actual base pay within this range may be dependent upon many factors, which may include, but are not limited to, work location, education, experience, and skills.

You must be work authorized in the United States on a full time basis without the need for any sponsorship now or in the future from any employer or organization. The Company cannot offer employment to F-1 (student) visa holders.

Bread Financial offers medical, prescription drug, dental, vision, and other voluntary benefits (including basic and optional life insurance, supplemental medical plans, and short and long-term disability) to eligible associates (regular full-time associates scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more) and their spouses/domestic partners, and child(ren) under the age of 26.  New associate elected coverage begins on date of hire (with the exception of disability coverage which has a 6-month waiting period).  Six weeks of 100% paid parental leave for eligible parents is available after a 180-day waiting period.   Hired associates can immediately enroll in Bread Financial’s 401(k) plan.

All associates receive 11 paid holidays. Associates have discretion in managing their time away from work through the Flexible Time Off (FTO) program and may need to notify and receive approval from their manager prior to taking the time off. Associates (except those located in Illinois) receive 80 hours of Paid Sick and Safe Time (“PSST”) upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year. Illinois associates receive 40 hours of Illinois PSST upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year and 40 hours of Illinois Paid Leave upon hire and at the beginning of each subsequent calendar year. Illinois Paid Leave must be used before associates in Illinois will be approved to take FTO.

Hired associates will be able to elect the purchase company stock during offering periods in June and December. You will be eligible for an annual incentive bonus based on individual and company performance.

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Job Family:

Marketing

Job Type:

Regular