Sr. Director, Product Management (Check Intelligence)

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Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
220K-275K Annually
Senior level
Artificial Intelligence • Mobile • Software
The Role
Lead product strategy and execution for the Check Intelligence portfolio, translate check processing and fraud trends into product requirements, manage a team of product managers, partner with engineering and data science to deliver fraud prevention and decisioning capabilities, own roadmaps, KPIs, go-to-market alignment, and cross-functional stakeholder engagement.
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Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK) is a global leader in digital & biometric identity authentication, fraud prevention, and mobile deposit solutions. Our verified identity platform and advanced image capture solutions are built on the latest advancements in biometric recognition, artificial intelligence, computer vision and machine learning, and trusted by over 7,500 organizations worldwide. We are headquartered in San Diego, California, with operations in the United Kingdom, Spain, France, Mexico, and the Netherlands. Visit us at www.miteksystems.com.

We are Virtual 1st! Whether you choose to work remotely from your home office or in-person from one of Mitek’s offices, our practices, processes and tools are designed to enable your success. At Mitek, the Future of Work is about flexibility and preference wherever and whenever we are working. Because we care about our candidates, employees and customers, we include an in-person meeting as part of our hiring process. It’s one of the ways we live our mission to “Protect What’s Real.”

At Mitek, we believe that teams are more resilient, effective, and innovative when they benefit from a wide range of ideas, lived experiences, and perspectives. The strength of our organization is deeply rooted in the people who power it.​ We know that a workforce reflecting the richness of our communities and customers helps us better serve their needs.


Mitek Systems is looking for a Senior Director of Product Management to lead our Check Intelligence product portfolio. This role is ideal for a hands-on product leader who can balance strategic ownership with day-to-day execution, while developing and guiding a high-performing product team. 
 
You will lead product strategy and execution for Mitek's Check Intelligence portfolio, working closely with engineering, data science, fraud experts, operations, sales, and customer-facing teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and market-relevant solutions. This role requires a strong understanding of check processing, mobile deposit workflows, financial institution operations, and evolving check fraud trends.

What You Will Do (Essential Responsibilities):

  • Define and communicate the product vision, strategy, roadmap, and priorities for the Check Intelligence business. 
  • Translate check processing needs, deposit workflows, check fraud trends, customer requirements, regulatory expectations, and market opportunities into clear product requirements and investment priorities.
  • Partner closely with engineering, data science, fraud experts, and operations to deliver scalable, reliable, and high-performing check intelligence capabilities. 
  • Lead roadmap planning and prioritization across fraud prevention, deposit decisioning, image quality, risk signals, APIs, analytics, operational tooling, and customer-facing capabilities.
  • Manage and coach a team of product managers, helping them improve product discovery, requirements quality, stakeholder management, execution discipline, and business ownership.
  • Establish and monitor product KPIs, including fraud detection performance, false positive rates, customer adoption, revenue growth, operational efficiency, deposit completion rates, and customer satisfaction.
  • Partner with sales, marketing, customer success, implementation, and support teams to support customer conversations, roadmap alignment, go-to-market readiness, and product adoption.

What You Will Need ((Required Knowledge, Skills & Abilities):

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
  • 10+ years of product management experience, with at least 3+ years leading product teams or managing product managers.
  • Experience owning complex B2B, SaaS, API-based, financial services, fraud prevention, risk management, payments, or banking technology products.
  • Strong understanding of check processing, mobile deposit, deposit review workflows, financial institution operations, and check fraud prevention.
  • Knowledge of check fraud trends and common fraud typologies, including duplicate presentment, altered checks, counterfeit checks, forged endorsements, account takeover-related deposit fraud, mule activity, and
    coordinated fraud rings.
  • Experience building or managing fraud detection, risk scoring, decisioning, analytics, workflow, or intelligence products.
  • Proven ability to define product strategy, build roadmaps, prioritize effectively, and drive execution across engineering and cross-functional teams.
  • Strong analytical skills, including comfort with product metrics, fraud performance metrics, customer usage data, business cases, and outcome-based reporting.

Who You Are (Soft Skills & Attributes):

  • Strategic product leader who can connect market trends, check fraud patterns, customer needs, and business goals into a clear product direction.
  • Hands-on operator who is willing to dig into requirements, customer issues, data, product gaps, and execution details.
  • Strong product leader who develops product talent, raises the quality of product thinking, and creates accountability within the team.
  • Comfortable operating in ambiguity and bringing structure, prioritization, and clarity to complex product and customer situations.
  • Strong collaborator who can align engineering, data science, sales, marketing, customer success, operations, and executive stakeholders.
  • Customer-focused leader who understands how to balance customer commitments with scalable product strategy.
  • Technically fluent and able to engage deeply on fraud signals, risk models, APIs, platform capabilities, image intelligence, and decisioning logic.
  • Outcome-oriented leader with a strong bias for action, disciplined execution, and measurable business impact.

We take pride in enabling career growth in an environment of innovation and teamwork.  Our commitment to all Mitekians is to do meaningful work that matters.  Our culture is defined by delivering our best to our customers by providing high value solutions and impactful outcomes, by continuously challenging convention, and by caring for each other through collaboration and celebrating our successes.  We are committed to creating competitive, equitable compensation & benefits programs and career development opportunities. 

Benefit offerings – may vary based on geographic location

Wellness: Universal, supplemental, and private healthcare plan choices based on country specifics 

Financial future: retirement/pension plan contributions, MTK stock plan participation  

Income protection: life event & disability coverage 

Paid time off: generous annual leave, company holidays, volunteer time off 

Learning: e-learning license, tuition reimbursement, hackathons 

Home office setup allowance

Additional/optional benefits: pet insurance, identity theft protection, legal assistance 

We sincerely appreciate your interest in Mitek. We know your time is valuable and look forward to the potential of speaking with you further! 

Skills Required

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Business, Finance, or related field (or equivalent experience)
  • 10+ years of product management experience
  • 3+ years leading product teams or managing product managers
  • Experience owning complex B2B SaaS, API-based financial services, payments, fraud prevention, or banking technology products
  • Strong understanding of check processing, mobile deposit workflows, deposit review, and financial institution operations
  • Knowledge of check fraud typologies (duplicate presentment, altered checks, counterfeit, forged endorsements, mule activity, coordinated fraud)
  • Experience building or managing fraud detection, risk scoring, decisioning, analytics, or workflow products
  • Proven ability to define product strategy, build roadmaps, prioritize, and drive cross-functional execution
  • Strong analytical skills with comfort using product and fraud performance metrics, customer usage data, and business cases
  • Technical fluency with fraud signals, risk models, APIs, platform capabilities, image intelligence, and decisioning logic
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The Company
HQ: San Diego, CA
647 Employees
Year Founded: 1985

What We Do

“Accelerate the digital transformation of your business with digital identity verification."​ Mitek (NASDAQ: MITK) is a global leader in mobile capture and digital identity verification solutions built on the latest advancements in AI and machine learning. Mitek’s identity verification solutions enable an enterprise to verify a user’s identity during a digital transaction, which assists financial institutions, payments companies and other businesses operating in highly regulated markets in mitigating financial risk and meeting regulatory requirements while increasing revenue from digital channels. Mitek also reduces the friction in the users’ experience with advanced data prefill and automation of the onboarding process. Mitek’s innovative solutions are embedded into the apps of more than 6,100 organizations and used by more than 80 million consumers for mobile check deposit, new account opening and more.

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