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About Us
We’re the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the way the world moves value—across borders, through cities and overseas. No other organisation can address the scale, precision, pace, and trust required to facilitate this demand, and we’re proud to support the global economy.
We’re unique. Established to revolutionise how the financial community moves value through reliable, safe, and secure processes that earn trust, we constantly evolve in an ever-changing environment while maintaining this trust.
Decades later, our diverse and vibrant community mirrors the complexity and variety of the financial ecosystem. We innovate relentlessly, rigorously test, and implement rapidly. In this interconnected era, our mission is more relevant than ever.
Swift operates in 200+ countries and legal territories, serving a community of over 12,000 banks and financial institutions. This role is unable to offer sponsorship for employment authorisation now or in the future.
About the Role
What to Expect
In this role, you will:
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Lead and coach Product Owners
- Set clear product outcomes, decision rights, and ways of working
- Ensure high-quality backlogs, well-formed hypotheses, and consistent discovery/delivery practices across squads
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Own the API portfolio strategy and roadmap
- Define the multi-year API ambition (capabilities, markets, and adoption plan)
- Maintain a prioritised roadmap aligned with Swift’s digital assets strategy, client needs, and regulatory evolution
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Oversee product governance and performance management
- Establish OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and KPIs (e.g., adoption, reliability, time-to-integrate, revenue/benefits)
- Drive quarterly business reviews, manage trade-offs, and escalate risks/decisions through governance forums
- Ensure proper governance processes are followed across the organisation
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Align delivery across functions
- Collaborate with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Risk, Legal/Compliance, and Operations to guarantee APIs meet non-functional requirements (e.g., resilience, observability, identity/access, data protection)
- Ensure APIs are regulation-compliant and fit for regulated environments
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Align with customers and the market
- Engage with priority clients and ecosystem partners to validate problems, test propositions, and drive adoption
- Work with Business Development and Industry Engagement to ensure messaging and go-to-market plans align with strategy
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- Shape investment cases and partnerships
- Build business cases for roadmap items, quantify benefits, and evaluate partnerships/inorganic opportunities that accelerate API capability, standardisation, or distribution
Leadership Scope
- Lead a team of Product Owners across multiple workstreams
- Set product standards and decision cadence
- Influence senior stakeholders without always having direct authority
Success Factors
We seek professionals with the following qualifications:
Minimum Requirements:
- Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- 7–10 years of experience in one of the following areas:
- Product management, platform/API product leadership, or strategy/program leadership (including directly or indirectly leading Product Owners in a matrixed setting)
- Experience building and scaling API products (both internal and external), including:
- Roadmap ownership
- Adoption metrics
- Developer experience
- Familiarity with the banking industry (including products, operations, and regulatory considerations)
- Applicable experience with Engineering and Architecture teams on non-functional requirements (e.g., security, resilience, data protection, observability)
- Experience interacting with, consulting, and reporting to senior stakeholders, including ability to break down complex topics into actionable decisions
Preferred Qualifications:
- Ability to lead complex, high-visibility, multi-workstream initiatives, maintaining strategic clarity while addressing operational needs
- Exposure to financial services, market infrastructure, digital assets, or tokenisation concepts (or demonstrated skill in quickly adapting to regulated environments)
- Advanced stakeholder management skills, including capability to align teams across:
- Product
- Technology
- Risk
- Legal/Compliance
- Operations
- Go-to-Market
- Ability to effectively engage clients and partners to clearly identify and resolve pain points while driving adoption
Compensation and Benefits
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Estimated salary range in Virginia:
- Minimum: $147,163.00 USD (annual)
- Maximum: $273,303.00 USD (annual) Note: Salary range may vary based on job-related factors, such as knowledge, experience, skills, and location.
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Package inclusions:
- Competitive base salary
- Bonus opportunity based on personal and company performance
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Benefits program features:
- Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance with no employee contribution
- Generous retirement plan including 401(k) match
Diversity and Inclusion
Swift fosters inclusivity and contextualises each individual’s unique perspective in the financial industry.
Our environment ensures everyone’s voice is heard and values everyone’s full potential. You’ll join a collaborative, friendly, and welcoming culture that embraces diverse backgrounds, viewpoints, and talents.
If you experience a need for accommodation during (or related to) your application or interview process, please contact: accessibility-Sysgroup@swift.com, or mention this request in your application.
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Vision and Mission
Swift’s Mission
"Swift is the way the world moves value — every minute of every day, in nearly every country." At Swift, impact matters. Your contributions directly shape the global financial community, and your involvement enhances nearly every aspect of financial empowerment.
Join Swift and unlock unparalleled debate, innovation, and collaborative growth:
- Exposure to advanced knowledge, expertise, and cutting-edge technologies
- Opportunity to grow professionally through either deep focus or career diversification across teams, disciplines, and global departments
- Continuous evolution in an innovative arena at the intersection of finance and technology
Swift stands boldly: no other organisation works extensively at forging the future of the financial system like we do. You’ll thrive in this high-trust culture surrounded by aptitude-driven professionals who relentlessly believe in—and prioritise—the ‘why.’
At Swift, every move is trusting. That’s why trust is our mission every day.
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