Cross River Bank
Who We Are
Cross River is a highly profitable, fast-growing financial technology company powering the future of financial services. Our comprehensive suite of innovative and scalable embedded payments, cards, and lending products deliver financial services for millions of businesses and consumers around the globe. Cross River is backed by leading investors and serves the world’s most essential fintech and technology companies. Together with its partners, Cross River is reshaping global finance and financial inclusion.
We are on a mission to build the infrastructure that propels access, inclusion, and the democratization of financial services. While our company has tripled in size over the last three years, our strong sense of purpose led Cross River to be named to American Banker’s list of Best Places to Work in Fintech for the last 6 years. The reason for this success is simple – our nimble and collaborative family culture lives in every member of our growing team. Together we are at the forefront of technology and innovation, and we invite passionate, collaborative, and motivated high performers to join our expanding team.
About Our Team
Cross River’s team is made up of problem solvers hungry to build and perfect new products and systems. We work with team members in most US time zones. Although we are in separate places, we still make space to know one another and have fun! We collaborate, help and mentor each other, and check in on our progress and blocks frequently.
What We’re Looking For
The VP BSM leads the delivery of the most complex IT programs and oversees a team of AVPs and BSMs. In addition to driving program execution, governance, and strategic alignment, this role also is a hands-on, product-oriented role that sits at the intersection of business needs and modern data tooling. You’ll own the delivery of high-impact applications without owning backend infrastructure. You will guide solution delivery from the enterprise systems perspective, partnering with technical teams (data engineering, platform teams, architects) and business stakeholders to drive value-focused application development. Your role centers on solution execution and stakeholder alignment, not platform-level architecture.
Responsibilities:
Own large-scale, strategic programs cutting across departments and domains
Manage and mentor a team of AVP BSMs and initiative leads
Define and improve delivery governance frameworks
Partner with senior IT and business leaders to align priorities and execution
Drive planning, dependency management, and reporting across the portfolio
Act as a trusted advisor to CIO/CTO and influence technology transformation agenda
Gather and refine product and business requirements in collaboration with stakeholders
Translate business needs into functional and technical specifications
Collaborate closely with engineering teams during development cycles
Conduct functional validation, user acceptance testing (UAT), and feedback loops for newly built systems
Required Skills:
10+ years of program or portfolio leadership in enterprise IT
Proven experience managing people and cross-functional teams
Expertise in Agile/SAFe delivery frameworks
Strong background in business analysis and product management
Familiarity with requirements definition tools and test planning (e.g., Jira, Confluence)
Ability to manage end-to-end product lifecycle, from concept through validation
Excellent stakeholder management and executive communication
Ability to assess program health, surface risks, and drive resolution
Qualifications:
Bachelor’s or master’s in technology, Business, or related field
Deep understanding of enterprise systems and technology delivery
Experience aligning large programs to strategic objectives
Define success metrics and ensure the product delivers measurable business value
Coordinate with Palantir and internal teams to align product delivery with strategic goals
Manage the backlog, user stories, and acceptance criteria in close collaboration with data and platform engineering teams
Engage with business and technical stakeholders to capture use cases and translate them into product capabilities
Serve as the Product Manager for Palantir implementation, owning the product roadmap and feature prioritization
Strong capability in stakeholder engagement, use case definition, and agile backlog management
Understanding of data platforms, analytics, and visualization tools
Experience of acting as a Product Owner or Product Manager for enterprise platform implementations
Act as a central point for escalation, feedback loops, and post-deployment support across impacted teams
Identify change impacts, readiness needs, and mitigation strategies in partnership with business stakeholders
Lead initiative-level communication strategy, ensuring consistent messaging across leadership and delivery teams
Develop and execute change management plans to support stakeholder adoption and minimize resistance
Experience designing stakeholder engagement plans, training roadmaps, and communications collateral
Strong written and verbal communication skills tailored for executive and operational audiences
Proven experience leading organizational change management for large-scale IT or platform implementations
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Salary Range: $180,000.00 - $210,000.00
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