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Senior Product Manager (API Portfolio) – The World’s Leading Provider of Secure Financial Messaging Services
About Us
SWIFT is the world’s leading provider of secure financial messaging services, headquartered in Belgium. We are the backbone of global finance, enabling the movement of value—across borders, cities, and territories. No other organisation delivers the scale, precision, precision, pace, and trust required, and we take pride in supporting the global economy with absolute reliability.
Our journey began to disrupt financial messaging: creating a reliable, safe, and reliable global standard trusted by the world's financial institutions. Five decades later, our diverse, innovative, and agile community reflects the complexity of the financial ecosystem. With a presence in 200+ countries, serving 12,000+ banks and financial institutions, our mission is as relevant as ever.
We innovate relentlessly, test exhaustively, and implement fast, navigating an ever-evolenging financial landscape without compromising core trust.
Note: Swift is unable to sponsor employment authorization for this position now or in the future.
About the Role
What to Expect: Core Responsibilities
- Lead & Coach Product Owners:
- Set clear product outcomes, decision rights, and ways of working
- Ensure high-quality backlogs with well-formed hypotheses,
- Enforce discovery/delivery best practices across squads
- API Portfolio Strategy & Roadmap:
- Define multi-year API ambition, including capabilities, markets, and adoption plans
- Prioritize roadmaps aligned with Swift’s digital assets strategy, client needs, and regulatory evolution
- Product Governance & Performance Management:
- Establish OKRs/KPIs (measuring adoption, reliability, time-to-integrate, revenue/benefits)
- Drive quarterly business reviews, manage trade-offs and escalate risks through governance forums
- Aligned Cross-Functional Delivery:
- Partner with Engineering, Architecture, Security, Risk, Legal/Compliance, and Operations
- Ensure APIs meet non-functional requirements (resilience, observability, identity/access, data protection)
- Provide relevance to regulated environments
- Customer & Market Alignment:
- Engage priority clients and ecosystem partners to validate problems, propose solutions, and guide adoption
- Work with Business Development and Industry Engagement for effective messaging and go-to-market plans
- Investment & Partnerships:
- Build business cases for roadmap items and quantify benefits
- Evaluate partner/inorganic opportunities that accelerate API capability, standardization, or distribution
- Leadership Scope:
- Lead a team of Product Owners across multiple workstreams
- Set product standards and decision cadence
- Influence senior stakeholders without direct authority
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What Will Make You Successful?
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field
- 7–10 years of experience in:
- Product management, platform/API product, business product leadership, or strategy/program leadership
- Leading Product Owners (directly or in a matrix format)
- Experience building and scaling API products (internal/external), including:
- Roadmap ownership, adoption metrics, and developer experience
- Banking industry knowledge (products, operations, regulatory environment) with applications in:
- Platform/API delivery decisions
- Experience working with Engineering & Architecture teams on:
- Non-functional requirements (security, resilience, data protection, observability)
- Ability to interact with and present to senior stakeholders, translating complexity into impactful decisions and actions
Preferred Qualifications:
- Proven ability to lead complex, multi-workstream initiatives with:
- High visibility & executive engagement
- Balancing strategic intent and pragmatic delivery
- Financial services/market infrastructures exposure or digital assets/tokenization experience
- (Or demonstrable ability to learn quickly in regulated domains)
- Strong stakeholder management with experience:
- Aligning Product, Technology, Risk, Legal/Compliance, Operations, and Go-to-Market
- Engaging with clients and ecosystem partners to validate needs and drive adoption
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Base Salary Range (Location: Virginia)
Annual Range: $147,163 USD to $273,303 USD
Note: Salary may vary based on job-related factors (knowledge, skills, experience, and location).
We offer:
- Competitive annual bonus tied to performance
- No-cost medical, dental, vision, and life insurance for employees and their families
- Generous retirement plan + matching 401(k)
What We Offer
Culture of Confidence & Inclusion
We are building a workplace where unique perspectives thrive, fostering fresh ideas about finance, technology, and global systems. Every voice matters, and everyone is encouraged to reach their full potential in a truly diverse and inclusive environment.
Commitment to Accessibility
We are dedicated to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accessibility accommodation during your application or interview, please contact accessibility-Sysgroup@swift.com or note your needs during application.
More details: This mailbox is not monitored for general recruitment inquiry—only for accessibility or accommodation-related requests (e.g., vision, hearing, neurodiversity). All requests remain confidential and have no impact on your candidacy.
Beyond Qualifications
At SWIFT, we celebrate your growth and ideas. If you are excited by this role, apply even if you do not meet every listed requirement.
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