Strategic Director - Verification

Company: Experian Group
Location: Costa Mesa
Posted on: February 22, 2021

Job Description:

We would love you to join us at Experian in helping us to shape the industry's transformation around delivering frictionless income and employment data solutions. We are seeking an experienced Product / Partner Relationship Director to help grow a suite of verifications products to be leveraged in multiple verticals and solutions. Through various partnerships and customer relationships, you'll design Experian's data strategy and help to drive market penetration of new and existing product lines in this space. We seek a candidate eager to join a start-up atmosphere, someone who is able to adapt readily, instill confidence in internal and external partners and drive results. As the ideal candidate, you'll need to be able to quickly prioritize opportunities and be an exceptional people leader, able to inspire high performance. You must have demonstrated success managing strategic partnerships that are critical to business success of both entities. You should be comfortable with ambiguity, shifting priorities and be a world class problem solver, working across functional units to ensure client satisfaction. You will be accountable for bringing our consumer-permissioned solutions to market, as a critical component of an overall Verification Solutions product suite of capabilities. You will partner with a broad array of internal stakeholders including other members of our world-class Development, Product, Sales, Legal, Compliance, Operations and Marketing teams. What you'll be doing

• Lead a high performing team responsible for operationalizing account aggregation verification solutions - from product launch to client implementation and client success integrating capabilities into their workflow
• Develop and execute the product strategy, growth and operationalization of consumer permissioned verification products through Experian's partnership with Finicity (a MasterCard company).
• Mange the relationship with and development of our partnership with Finicity to coordinate activities, influence product road map and manage go-to-market activities.
• Drive the adoption of consumer permissioned verifications products across use cases and verticals as a component of Experian's full suite of verification solutions capabilities
• Coordinate with broader Verification Solutions team on how consumer-permissioned account aggregation solutions interacts with the full suite of Experian capabilities
• Maintain a consistent operating model for client successful utilization of account aggregation solutions
• Ensure complete and current documentation of processes and standards
• Address issues and anomalies through to resolution
• Collaborate regularly with various internal teams on industry events, marketing campaigns and collateral development What your background looks like
  • Strategic mindset with ability to understand partner and industry objectives as well as internal product strategy and go-to-market priorities
  • Partner-driven with a desire and proven track-record to achieve success through complex relationships and multi-tier distribution channels
  • Demonstrated team leadership and advocacy - fostering a collaborative, fun, motivated team environment
  • Strong organizational, managerial, and personal skills to successfully communicate and negotiate with internal and external stakeholders
  • Five+ years of experience in product management, relationship management and strategy for business-to-business or direct-to-consumer products required
  • Action-oriented with strong communication, prioritization, operational and planning skills--
  • Self-motivated and goal-oriented independent thinker with strong attention to detail, analytical focus, and problem-solving skills--
  • High sense of urgency and proven success navigating large, matrixed organizations--
  • Excellent relationship development, problem solving and issue management skills
  • Excellent verbal and written communication skills
  • 3+ years of experience managing a dynamic team
  • Ability to grasp strategic initiatives of target accounts and to formulate project / product offerings
  • BS degree is required, MBA preferred
  • Position is preferred in Costa Mesa, CA but open
  • Costa Mesa is home to Experian's North American headquarters
  • Newly renovated offices and beautiful campus atmosphere
  • Three weeks of vacation to start, five sick days and two volunteer days (plus eleven paid holidays)
  • Competitive pay and comprehensive benefits package
  • Employee stock purchase program and 401K matching and immediate vesting
  • Flexible work schedule and relaxed dress code EOE including Disability/Veterans Refer a Friend Know someone who would be perfect for this role? Experian employees can refer a friend for an open role by clicking on the Recommend This Job button and choosing Grab a referral link (you must be logged in to do this). Once you have copied the link you can share it with your friend via email or social media. When your friend applies to the role using the link you provided, you will be captured as the referring employee. Simple as that!
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