Principal Product Solutions Manager

Were looking for talented professionals to join us in bringing smart money management and payment solutions to everyones fingertips.

This position is classified as structured hybrid with an expectation of a minimum of three (3) days per week working in the office and flexibility to work remotely on the remaining days. On-site expectations may evolve over time to support business needs with clear communication provided in advance.

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Location Requirement

This position is open only to candidates who can work in one of the following approved locations:

Los Angeles CA (West LA); San Francisco CA (SoMa); San Diego CA; or Tampa FL (Westshore District)

Job Description

Principal Product Manager

Job Summary

The Principal Product Solutions Manager leads the intake discovery and solutioning of Green Dots partner payments products and services while driving broader product strategy and lifecycle execution for the Payments Platform. This role plays a critical part in ensuring work is fully defined technically feasible and operationally ready before entering Product execution and delivery. It focuses on the front end of the product lifecycle (Intake through Discovery and Pre-Commit readiness) improving the quality consistency and completeness of inputs that drive successful delivery.

In addition this role partners closely with Product leadership to shape and define product strategy set requirements and ensure alignment to customer partner and business objectives across the product lifecycle. The Product Solutions Lead partners cross-functionally across Product Engineering Operations Compliance/Risk and Business stakeholders to coordinate early-stage shaping activities validate dependencies and risks and ensure readiness for Product prioritization and commitment. The Principal Product Solutions Manager is accountable for ensuring that work entering Product planning is complete connected actionable and aligned to overall product strategy.

Key Responsibilities

Lifecycle Readiness & Input Completeness

Own readiness and completeness of work across Intake Discovery and Pre-Commit stages

Ensure all required inputs are defined connected and consistent before Product Delivery engagement

Validate that work meets the criteria for ready for Product including:

Clear requirements

Defined dependencies and risks

Technical feasibility

Sufficient business context for prioritization

Intake & Discovery Coordination

Drive continuity across early lifecycle milestones including:

Intake questionnaire completion and classification

Customer and regulatory impact identification

High-level requirements definition and shaping

Initial sizing and feasibility assessment

Preliminary business case development

Coordinate across Product Engineering Compliance/Risk Operations and Business teams to ensure inputs are complete and aligned

Technical Translation & Feasibility Validation

Partner with Engineering to validate feasibility early and reduce rework downstream

Structure inputs to enable targeted efficient engineering engagement

Ensure dependencies constraints and risks are identified and documented before commitment

Cross-Functional Coordination

Serve as the central coordinator across:

Product (requirements shaping and prioritization readiness)

Engineering (feasibility sizing dependencies)

Compliance/Risk and Operations (impact and operational readiness)

Business stakeholders (context and value articulation)

Ensure clear ownership and accountability at each lifecycle milestone and handoff

Product Enablement

Reduce Product Delivery teams upstream workload by owning early shaping and readiness activities

Provide Product Delivery teams with commit-ready inputs to support prioritization and sequencing

Maintain continuity of context through early delivery as needed

Product Management & Strategy

Define and drive the product strategy for the Payments Platform ensuring alignment to customer needs partner requirements and business objectives

Define refine and prioritize business and technical requirements in partnership with Product Managers Engineering and stakeholders

Drive product roadmap development by identifying and prioritizing opportunities to improve capability performance scalability and resiliency

Partner with stakeholders to define product objectives for new features and enhancements leveraging customer insights partner feedback and market trends

Define and document customer journeys user experience considerations operational workflows and risk controls

Own the definition and tracking of product success metrics and KPIs to measure feature and product performance

Serve as the subject matter expert for payments capabilities including APIs business rules and associated risk/compliance requirements

Support issue triage and resolution by ensuring clear ownership requirements clarity and alignment across teams

Ensure adherence to IT governance standards processes and approved tools throughout the product lifecycle

Required Qualifications

10 years of experience working across the product development lifecycle in a product technical or program capacity

Experience owning product strategy requirements definition and delivery for technical products or platforms

Strong ability to translate business needs into structured technical and product requirements

Experience coordinating cross-functional teams (Product Engineering Operations Compliance/Risk)

Proficiency in requirements definition feasibility analysis and dependency mapping

Strong analytical organizational and communication skills

Demonstrated ability to influence senior leadership and drive alignment on complex ambiguous problems spanning multiple teams

Sufficient technical acumen to engage in architecture and design discussions with engineering teams

Preferred Qualifications

Experience working in fintech payments or regulated environments

Prior experience working on partner platforms or embedded finance products

Working knowledge of consumer or B2B fintech products and services

Familiarity with API-based architectures and microservices

Experience with payments ecosystems (ACH debit rails real-time payments preferred)

Key Competencies

Structured thinking and problem decomposition

Cross-functional influence without direct authority

Mentors product practitioners and raises the standard of product craft across the organization

Mentors and raises the bar for less experienced product practitioners

Ability to balance strategic thinking with execution detail

Detail orientation with an ability to connect end-to-end workflows

Strong communication and alignment across technical and non-technical teams

Bias toward completeness clarity and execution readiness

**Ability to work in the U.S. without sponsorship**
**Ability to meet the location requirement outlined above**

POSITION TYPE

PAY RANGE

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Work Authorization Requirement
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