GeoGuard

“Do you ever get frustrated about how much fraud there is online and how little banks seem to be able to do to stop it? This is your chance to make a difference and level the playing-field!”

The Company

 

GeoComply and its GeoGuard division operate at the center of a new generation of cybersecurity companies, leveraging today's geolocation data to make better risk-based decisions.

 

One of North America’s fastest-growing companies, and working as a critical piece of the infrastructure for some of the world’s largest tech companies, GeoComply has become the global market-leader for compliance-grade geolocation data and a critical piece of the decision engine. 

The Opportunity

 

GeoComply Solutions is looking for a Product Manager for its TrueLocation API product. TrueLocation combines the world’s most powerful geolocation data set with bleeding edge Data Science to create near-instant fraud alerts for account-takeover, synthetic account creation and other common cyber attack vectors. 

As Product Manager you will be the CEO of the Product with a unique opportunity to demonstrate your ability to meld technical expertise with entrepreneurial instinct. You will create and implement the vision that takes this product to market and makes it financially viable. And, most importantly, you will be playing a key role in helping protect against fraud and cybercrime online.

As a product manager, you will directly contribute to GeoComply’s expansions into a new market segment. You will own all things product management for our TrueLocation API product: defining the vision, researching the product strategy, designing the product roadmap and features, and successfully delivering the product. 

This is a newly created role so you will wear many hats (for now!). You are first and foremost a product manager, but at times you will be called upon to put on your business analyst, UX designer, or project management hat. You are an entrepreneur at heart and know what it takes to successfully take a product to market, especially within a fast-growing and changing company environment. You can cut through the noise to understand what is needed, consider the trade-offs, map out a plan, and see that plan through.

Additional data points: this role will report into the Vancouver, BC Head Office, but could be located anywhere.  

 

What You Will Be Doing

 

Product Vision

• Own all product management aspects for the TrueLocation API product
• Define the product vision and the product roadmap based on market and product analysis, close interaction with customers, partners and internal teams, and competition research
• In close communication with all stakeholders, create the TrueLocation API go-to-market strategy and pitch the product to prospective customers

Product Development

• Work closely with customers in order to understand their needs and challenges, and propose optimal solutions
• Plan the product’s new and enhanced features as a set of projects, define each project’s scope, and assist project managers in avoiding scope creep
• Create detailed business requirements in close coordination with customers and the product team
• Assist business systems analysts in translating business requirements into technical requirements, with a constant focus on user experience and performance
• Constantly support the development team with requirements clarifications

Product Rollout

• Communicate project rollout progress to customers, arrange and lead user acceptance testing and conduct product trainings
• Work with internal analysis teams to monitor production metrics that may be an input to future product improvements

 

Candidate Profile

 

• Experienced. You have at least 7 years of product management experience, bringing your product vision to commercial success, and 3 of those years will have been product managing B2B SaaS products. Ideally, you will have spent part of your career in a start-up or growing business environment and part of your career on an established product management team.
• Innovative. You have a history of finding pragmatic solutions to difficult problems.
• Customer-centric. You take the time to understand your customer’s concerns and needs, you can translate those needs into an action plan, and you always keep the user experience in mind.
• Technical. You understand how software is built and how systems work. You partner effectively with technical project managers, engineers, designers, and testers to make the best possible product.
• Strong Communicator. You are able to communicate complex topics to diverse audiences in both written and oral formats.
• Results-oriented. You can see the big picture and are effective at driving projects from start to finish.
• Multiplier. You understand the value of partnering with others and always strive to bring out the best in people.
• Influencer. You are a well-versed advocate of product management best practices. You are comfortable championing the standardization of the product management processes based on current business needs and best practices

Working as part of a can-do team-culture, there is no place for egos, soloists, or defensiveness. To be successful in our organization, you need an eager attitude, professionalism, and the confidence to willingly work to prove yourself and your ideas, to earn the trust of the organization.

 

Our Values

 

Build it Better: We are a company of puzzle-solvers with big ambitions, who don’t shy away from issues too complex or painstaking for others. We find innovative and customer-oriented solutions to roadblocks while ensuring that our mission to deliver at the highest standards is maintained. 

 

Build it Bigger: We are dreamers and builders with a bias for action. We lean into challenges and work collaboratively to stay on a problem until it is resolved, and then communicate openly and fairly to take steps to learn and improve. We do our best work as a team. Whether working as an individual contributor or as a manager, the success of the team always comes before individual success. Our best leaders grow themselves and their teams to make the next generation of leaders.

 

Build it Right: GeoComply was founded on the principle of doing things the right way. Details matter. We are trusted by our employees, customers, and by the regulators. The absolute quality and integrity of our product and deliverables is paramount. When we speak to an external party, we ensure that we are speaking with our voice: polite, correct, careful, and helpful. When we speak to an internal colleague, we ensure we use the same voice and are not afraid to be direct when the company values are at stake. 

Our People

The GeoComply team is a highly effective global force, well-respected for its technical and subject matter expertise as well as its positive mental attitude. Team members are the most valuable asset in the company and as such are generously rewarded with company ownership style incentives, comprehensive benefits, and very material discretionary personal learning and development budgets.