Who are we looking for?Rainforest is looking for an experienced Technical Product Owner passionate about bringing payments products to life. You'll partner with our 'Rails' engineering team to define and prioritize payment products that are embedded into our client's vertical SaaS software.
In this role, we need an individual who enjoys working with a significant amount of autonomy and is excited about helping to build out payment infrastructure that moves billions of dollars through the Rainforest ecosystem. You'll know you're the right candidate when you enjoy digging into the details of reliable payments technology and crafting tickets, collaborating with vendors integrated in the payment flows, and looking for opportunities to grow and expand your product experience.
What are some of the high-impact opportunities you'll tackle?- Owning delivery of product initiatives and releases by defining, documenting, and communicating goals, requirements, and constraints
- Working with product leadership to translate product strategy into well-defined functional and technical requirements for the engineering team
- Functioning within the Rails engineering team, attend agile meetings, help communicate the product stories and requirements, and execute the delivery of a product into production at scale
- Helping to manage and prioritize the product backlog
- Building strong collaborative working relationships with product and engineering teams as well as Rainforest internal and external stakeholders
- Working with our vendors to ensure integrations are accurate and maintained
This opportunity is for you if you have / are:- Experience with payment processing and/or PayFac, especially building payment products, as well as an understanding of foundational concepts such as the credit card payment lifecycle (auth, settle, funding, etc.), factors involved in interchange qualification, ACH funding timeframes, and merchant underwriting
- 5+ years as a Product Owner or similar role
- Strong technical background with the ability to understand the technical architecture of a modern cloud-based SaaS payments product
- Understanding and experience with Product Management concepts such as roadmaps, product vision and strategy, and product market research
- Proven experience in gathering requirements, creating documentation, and user stories, as well as a strong understanding and work with agile scrum teams
- Ability to visualize and prototype stories and feature sets
- Strong organization, written and communication skills
- Ease of working within a team structure in a collaborative manner
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Experience in agile software development with continuous deployment release strategies
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience in the areas of Information Science, Computer Science, or related disciplines
We offer a comprehensive health benefits package, unlimited paid time off, paid parental leave, a fun and flexible working environment, and continuously invest in our people and our culture.
