Summary
Join Aperia Solutions, a leader in SaaS solutions for the Payments and Compliance industries. Aperia is a Texas-based fintech and managed consultancy firm that creates custom SaaS applications and other software-based solutions for the payments, banking, and processing industry. Founded in 1999, Aperia offers business intelligence, risk management, compliance, and customer intelligence platforms. With offices in Dallas, Washington DC, and Vietnam, Aperia is a fast-paced, global organization that strives to improve efficiency in compliance, risk, and customer service operations. Aperia’s clients include banks, processors, payment facilitators, merchant service providers, independent sales organizations, and government entities. A career at Aperia promises a great challenge, culture, and opportunities to forge your own path.
Job Description
We are seeking a Principal Product Manager —a senior, highly strategic leader responsible for driving enterprise‑critical product initiatives and shaping our clients long‑term platform direction. In this role, you will leverage deep domain expertise, strong cross‑functional leadership, and the ability to influence decisions at the highest levels of the organization. You will define the product vision for complex, multi‑team capabilities and guide PMs and engineering leaders to deliver scalable, innovative payment solutions.
This position is ideal for someone who operates as a thought leader, a strategic problem solver, and a connector across organizational boundaries. T
Key Responsibilities
Strategic Product Leadership
- Own the long-term strategy for a major platform capability, cross-product domain, or enterprise-level initiative.
- Build and champion a clear vision that aligns to our clients multi-year business goals.
- Identify market shifts, emerging technologies, and regulatory trends to shape proactive product evolution.
- Develop high-impact business cases to secure executive alignment and investment.
Cross-Functional Alignment & Influence
- Act as a senior partner to Engineering, Architecture, Compliance, Risk, Operations, and Commercial Leadership.
- Drive alignment across multiple product lines, ensuring cohesive prioritization and technical direction.
- Present strategy, progress, and recommendations to senior leadership and executive teams.
Complex Program Leadership
- Break down large, ambiguous problem spaces into clear, actionable initiatives for multiple teams.
- Guide PMs and POs in defining epics, features, goals, and dependencies.
- Anticipate organizational, technical, regulatory, and operational challenges early and create mitigation strategies.
- Ensure cross-team delivery success for mission-critical initiatives.
Customer, Market & Industry Expertise
- Deeply understand customer needs, competitive dynamics, partner ecosystems, and payment industry trends.
- Establish the problem definition and strategic framing for entire product domains.
- Represent our client externally with partners, clients, and industry groups as a domain expert.
Technical & Architectural Leadership
- Partner with engineering and architecture to define and evolve platform capabilities, integration strategies, and technical roadmaps.
- Ensure long-term scalability, reliability, and compliance considerations are embedded in product direction.
- Challenge technical and business assumptions to guide sustainable solutions.
Thought Leadership & Mentorship
- Mentor and coach PMs, Senior PMs, and POs across the organization.
- Elevate product management standards, tools, and processes.
- Contribute to product culture, organizational development, and strategic planning.
Eligibility Requirements
- Must be willing to submit to a background investigation and drug test as part of the selection process.
- This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. Applicants must have authorization to work in the country without the need for sponsorship.
Job Type
- Full-Time
Schedule
- Monday to Friday
Location
- Jacksonville, FL; Remote
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401(k) matching
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Parental leave
- Disability insurance
- Childcare assistance
- Education reimbursement
- Fitness membership
- Volunteer time off
This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. An employee may also perform other reasonable related business duties as assigned by their immediate supervisor or management. Principals only.
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Skills Required
- Extensive experience in product management within fintech or similar industries
- Proven track record of managing complex, cross-functional product initiatives
- Ability to influence and communicate effectively at all levels
- Deep understanding of compliance, risk management, and customer intelligence
- Bachelors degree in relevant field; MBA preferred
What We Do
Your success is our objective. We have more than a decade of service providing business intelligence solutions and applying extensive experience and knowledge to your business requirements. From its roots in the finance, banking, and the payments industry, Aperia expanded to become the preeminent provider of ETL, BI, and hosted solutions in a variety of industries. Aperia platforms scale with industry, processing massive volumes on time. The Software as a Service (SaaS) platforms support millions of end users creating billions of transactions per day, all with the speed and reliability required for business. The company’s management combines more than a century in finance, business consulting, rapid growth, and governance, as well as business intelligence, the company’s core function. Aperia knows that data holds power and providing the precision tools to release that power from data in any format is our passion, skill, and talent.
