VP, Product Management – Tokenization & Identity

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VP of Product Management overseeing tokenization and identity solutions for financial institutions at Early Warning. Collaborating across teams and managing product strategy for growth and innovation.

Posted 6/3/2026full-timeNew York City • California, Illinois, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesLead💰 $272,000 - $363,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Define and champion the product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the token directory & identity services.
Translate market needs, customer expectations, partner requirements, regulatory considerations, and business priorities into a clear product direction and execution plan.
Harmonize tokenization and identity capabilities across e-commerce, NFC, agentic, and emerging channels.
Establish product priorities that balance customer experience, partner adoption, platform scalability, revenue growth, risk controls, and operational feasibility.
Continuously monitor the payments, digital identity, e-commerce, wallet, authentication, and emerging technology landscape to identify opportunities for innovation and differentiation.
Lead the build, evolution, and scale of secure, extensible, and interoperable product and platform capabilities that support current and future Paze products.
Own the evolution of token, directory, and identity infrastructure into modern platform services with clear governance, data standards, operating models, and risk controls.
Oversee the product development lifecycle from strategy, discovery, concept validation, and requirements through development, launch, post-launch analysis, and continuous improvement.
Partner with Engineering teams to define product requirements, groom user stories, manage tradeoffs, and ensure timely delivery of high-quality market solutions.
Apply design thinking, agile methodologies, customer insights, operating metrics, and data-driven decision making to improve delivery quality and product outcomes.
Work closely with Partnerships to drive optimal product and commercial outcomes across issuers, owner and non-owner financial institutions, payment networks, issuer processors, merchants, channels, agents, and strategic technology partners.
Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Risk, Marketing, Sales, Data, Legal, Compliance, Operations, and other stakeholders to ensure alignment and effective execution of the product roadmap.
Influence senior leaders and external partners to drive adoption, resolve ambiguity, align on priorities, and scale platform capabilities across complex ecosystems.
Lead and mentor a high-performing product organization, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, accountability, practical problem solving, and responsible risk management.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, technology, product management, quantitative field, or related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
Typically, 15 or more years of progressive product management or related experience in consumer payments, digital commerce, platform products, financial services technology, or a related field.
Deep experience with consumer payments, including online checkout solutions, wallets, card tokenization, authentication, identity, directory, or data platform capabilities.
Demonstrated ability to define and execute multi-product or cross-vertical product and platform strategies in complex, regulated environments.
Proven experience building, scaling, and delivering successful products and platform services, including setting product strategy, developing roadmaps, and achieving business outcomes.
Experience designing or scaling token lifecycle, identity, directory, authentication, or related platform frameworks across channels.
Demonstrated leadership experience, including direct people management, cross-functional leadership, executive alignment, and talent development.
Experience influencing financial institutions, payment networks, processors, merchants, channels, or strategic technology partners to drive adoption at scale.
Demonstrated use of operating metrics, customer insights, consumer data, analytics, and business performance data to define, test, and optimize growth strategies.
Experience working closely with Engineering, Technology, UX, Marketing, Sales, Risk, Compliance, Legal, Data, Operations, and Partnerships in a cross-functional operating model.
Strong understanding of design thinking, agile development processes, product discovery, requirements definition, and iterative delivery methodologies.
Strong communication, executive presence, decision-making, and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex product, platform, partner, and technical topics into clear business direction.

Benefits

Comp & perks

Healthcare Coverage – Competitive medical (PPO/HDHP), dental, and vision plans as well as company contributions to your Health Savings Account (HSA) or pre-tax savings through flexible spending accounts (FSA) for commuting, health & dependent care expenses.
401(k) Retirement Plan – Featuring a 100% Company Safe Harbor Match on your first 6% deferral immediately upon eligibility.
Paid Time Off – Flexible Time Off for Exempt (salaried) employees, as well as generous PTO for Non-Exempt (hourly) employees, plus 11 paid company holidays and a paid volunteer day.
12 weeks of Paid Parental Leave
Maven Family Planning – provides support through your Parenting journey including egg freezing, fertility, adoption, surrogacy, pregnancy, postpartum, early pediatrics, and returning to work.

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Hard Skills & Tools

product managementtokenizationidentity servicesdigital commercepaymentsauthenticationdata platformagile methodologiesdesign thinkingcross-vertical product strategy

Soft Skills

leadershipcollaborationinfluencingcommunicationdecision-makingproblem solvingaccountabilitymentoringexecutive presencecustomer insights