Technical Product Owner - Risk Team at Rainforest Pay

Who is Rainforest? Rainforest is an early stage payments-as-a-service startup that has developed a solution that makes monetizing payments for vertically focused software platforms fair and simple. We focus on small-to-mid sized platforms that want to add value to their small business customers through embedded payments — and want to do so without adding operational or regulatory burdens or costs. Led by a successful repeat fintech founder with deep knowledge of the industry, and with venture backing from a Top 10 VC firm, Rainforest is well positioned to make an impact in the payments-as-a-service space, and we're looking for new team members who want to be a part of this journey! Who are we looking for? Rainforest is looking for an experienced Technical Product Owner passionate about bringing payments products to life. You’ll partner with our Risk engineering team to define and prioritize payment products that are embedded into our client's vertical SaaS software. In this role, we need an individual who enjoys working with a significant amount of autonomy and is excited about helping to build out amazing integrations, dashboards, and automations for merchant underwriting, onboarding, and credit/fraud risk monitoring. You’ll know you're the right candidate if you enjoy digging into the technology and crafting tickets, and are also looking for opportunities to grow and expand your product experience. What are some of the high-impact opportunities you’ll tackle? - Owning delivery of product initiatives and releases by defining, documenting, and communicating goals, requirements, and constraints Working with product leadership to translate product strategy into well-defined functional and technical requirements for the engineering team Functioning within the Experience engineering team, attend agile meetings, help communicate the product stories and requirements, and execute the delivery of a product into production at scale Writing technical documentation Helping to manage and prioritize the product backlog Building strong collaborative working relationships with product and engineering teams, risk operations teams, as well as other Rainforest internal and external stakeholders Working with our vendors to ensure integrations are accurate and maintained This opportunity is for you if you have / are: - 5+ years as a Product Owner or similar role Knowledge of payment processing and/or PayFac, especially of payments risk including KYC/KYB, underwriting, transaction monitoring, fraud detection and remediation, and credit risk scoring Experience with automation for risk, including automated scoring, machine learning, data gathering and pipelines, and remediation Understanding and experience with Product Management concepts such as roadmaps, product vision and strategy, and product market research Proven experience in gathering requirements, creating documentation, and user stories as well as a strong understanding and work with agile scrum teams Ability to visualize and prototype stories and feature sets Strong organization, written and communication skills Ease of working within a team structure in a collaborative manner Strong analytical and quantitative skills Experience in agile software development with continuous deployment release strategies Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in the areas of Information Science, Computer Science, or related disciplines, is preferred We offer a comprehensive health benefits package, unlimited paid time off, paid parental leave, a fun and flexible working environment, and continuously invest in our people and our culture. If you require any accommodations throughout the pre-employment process, please contact our HR team at [Upgrade to PRO to see contact]