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Product Manager Lead

Lexington, Massachusetts

Sponsorship not specified$121k-$208kDetected 31 days ago
ComplianceProduct ManagementProduct StrategyStakeholder ManagementBusiness DevelopmentLeadershipCommunicationPublic Speaking

About the role

  • RCLON is a market-leading CLO platform powering large-scale, high-performance offers for top loyalty programs across financial institutions, airlines, and consumer rewards platforms.

Responsibilities

  • Serve as the single accountable product owner for a multi-partner, multi-publisher platform operating at significant scale and complexity.
  • Translate company and partner goals into clear product priorities, tradeoffs, and execution plans.
  • Partner closely with Engineering to define scope, sequencing, and delivery plans
  • write clear, high-quality product requirements that balance partner needs, technical constraints, and platform scalability.
  • Build strong working relationships with Sales, Business Development, Operations, BI, and Compliance to ensure the platform meets both internal and external needs.
  • Drive the evolution of data integrations, reporting tools, and analytics capabilities for internal stakeholders and external partners.
  • Collaborate with BI teams to improve data accuracy, transparency, and self-service reporting across the platform.
  • Ensure the platform scales reliably as offer volume, partners, and transaction complexity grow.
  • Partner closely with Engineering to define scope, sequencing, and delivery plans; write clear, high-quality product requirements that balance partner needs, technical constraints, and platform scalability.
  • Own product accountability for PCI, SOC 2, and related compliance requirements, partnering with Engineering, Security, and Legal to ensure ongoing adherence.

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required
  • Familiarity with Agile product development and modern product discovery practices
  • Experience working in regulated or compliance-heavy environments
  • 8+ years of product management experience, with ownership of complex B2B or platform products
  • Deep domain knowledge of card-linked offers, payments, loyalty, financial institutions, or card networks
  • Proven experience partnering closely with engineering teams on data-heavy, API-driven, or transactional systems
  • Strong analytical mindset with hands-on experience working with data, reporting, and metrics
  • Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and make clear prioritization decisions
  • Comfort presenting to senior leadership, executives, and external partners
  • Exceptional communication, organization, and stakeholder management skills
  • Minimum Requirements:
  • Experience in high-scale partner platforms or multi-tenant B2B products

Nice to have

  • Advanced degree or formal product certifications preferred but not required
  • Product Management certification and/or BI tool experience a plus

Compensation

  • At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the base compensation for this role to be within the range shown below.

Benefits

  • Own the end-to-end product vision, strategy, and roadmap for the RCLON platform, aligned to business objectives and revenue growth targets.

Company info

  • We are hiring a Product Manager Lead to serve as the single product owner for the Rakuten Card Linked Offers (RCLON) platform.

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