New York, NY | [email protected] | jesseowensii.com | 757.270.1015
I'm a product management leader, award-winning product coach, and multiple patent holder with 17+ years in Fintech, Education, and Consumer Technology. My mission is to empower communities through technology by excelling in delivering iterative value creation, sustainable approaches to product management, and innovation-driven leadership.
Currently, I serve as an Executive Director of Product at Wells Fargo, building the future of Embedded Finance products by delivering a robust suite of capabilities that enable clients to connect to bank solutions from their platform(s) of choice where they run their business today. Before Wells Fargo, I was the Chief Product Officer at SoloFunds, where I led the strategy of building a community marketplace that enables financial autonomy for millions of members through innovative approaches to consumer lending. As Director of Product at MasterCard, I led product teams with a mission to deliver the best-in-class platform tokenized services and password-less consumer checkout experiences for the Click to Pay product with launches in over 35 countries.
Before MasterCard, I was the first Product Manager hired at Imagine Easy Solutions (IES) (acquired by Chegg). This education technology startup company grew into the largest online bibliography site, with over 80 million active users through its flagship product, EasyBib. During my tenure at IES, I led the growth of the freemium and subscription business verticals while delivering platform API services to enable seamless product integrations with partners, including Google Docs, to bolster the value proposition for all students, leading to over 10+ million downloads.
Before joining IES, I started my career as a software engineer at J.P. Morgan, delivering global messaging products to communicate securitized trade executions, confirmations, and settlements across New York, London, and Hong Kong trading desks for the Asset Management line of business.
I'm also a proud alumnus of Norfolk State University, where I majored in Computer Science with auxiliary research in Iris Recognition, Cryptography, Cloud Computing, and Early Childhood Game Development.
Digital Payments, E-Commerce, Marketplaces, B2C & B2B Strategy, Market and Consumer Research, API Developer Experience (DX) Design and Implementation, Product Discovery and Delivery, Consumer UX Design Patterns, Developer & Consumer Usability Testing, Microservices & MicroFrontend (MFE) Architecture, A/B Experimentation, DevOps Frameworks, Data Science & Analytics, Domain Driven Design (DDD)
Executive Director , Embedded Finance, Wells Fargo Commercial Banking and Corporate & Investment Bank
Dec 2021- Present, New York, NY
Chief Product Officer, Solo Funds (Tech Stars '18)
Jan 2021- Aug 2021, New York, NY
Director, Click to Pay, Consumer Insights and Experience Delivery
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020, New York, NY
Director, Secure Remote Commerce (SRC), Checkout & Profile Management Services
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019, New York, NY
Senior Product Manager, MasterPass, Merchant & Consumer Wallet Services
May 2014 - January 2017, New York, NY
Lead Product Management Instructor & Curriculum Designer, Product School
July 2016 - December 2020, New York, NY
Lead Product Management Instructor, 2020 Shift
August 2016 - September 2016, New York, NY
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Squire (Y-Combinator '16)
Mar 2014 - May 2015, New York, NY
Product Manager
January 2013 - May 2014, New York, NY
Associate, Technical Business Analyst, Corporate Investment Bank
June 2011 - Jan 2013, New York, NY
Associate, Application Developer, Asset Management
January 2007 - June 2011, Jersey City, NJ
General Assembly New York, NY
Certificate in Product Management 10 week business course in 2013
Norfolk State University Norfolk, VA
B.Sc. Computer Science with an emphasis in Information Systems in 2006
Cum Laude Graduate | Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Research Fellow | NSU Computer Science Scholar
New York, NY | [email protected] | jesseowensii.com | 757.270.1015
I'm a product management leader, award-winning product coach, and multiple patent holder with 17+ years in Fintech, Education, and Consumer Technology. My mission is to empower communities through technology by excelling in delivering iterative value creation, sustainable approaches to product management, and innovation-driven leadership.
Currently, I serve as an Executive Director of Product at Wells Fargo, building the future of Embedded Finance products by delivering a robust suite of capabilities that enable clients to connect to bank solutions from their platform(s) of choice where they run their business today. Before Wells Fargo, I was the Chief Product Officer at SoloFunds, where I led the strategy of building a community marketplace that enables financial autonomy for millions of members through innovative approaches to consumer lending. As Director of Product at MasterCard, I led product teams with a mission to deliver the best-in-class platform tokenized services and password-less consumer checkout experiences for the Click to Pay product with launches in over 35 countries.
Before MasterCard, I was the first Product Manager hired at Imagine Easy Solutions (IES) (acquired by Chegg). This education technology startup company grew into the largest online bibliography site, with over 80 million active users through its flagship product, EasyBib. During my tenure at IES, I led the growth of the freemium and subscription business verticals while delivering platform API services to enable seamless product integrations with partners, including Google Docs, to bolster the value proposition for all students, leading to over 10+ million downloads.
Before joining IES, I started my career as a software engineer at J.P. Morgan, delivering global messaging products to communicate securitized trade executions, confirmations, and settlements across New York, London, and Hong Kong trading desks for the Asset Management line of business.
I'm also a proud alumnus of Norfolk State University, where I majored in Computer Science with auxiliary research in Iris Recognition, Cryptography, Cloud Computing, and Early Childhood Game Development.
Digital Payments, E-Commerce, Marketplaces, B2C & B2B Strategy, Market and Consumer Research, API Developer Experience (DX) Design and Implementation, Product Discovery and Delivery, Consumer UX Design Patterns, Developer & Consumer Usability Testing, Microservices & MicroFrontend (MFE) Architecture, A/B Experimentation, DevOps Frameworks, Data Science & Analytics, Domain Driven Design (DDD)
Executive Director , Embedded Finance, Wells Fargo Commercial Banking and Corporate & Investment Bank
Dec 2021- Present, New York, NY
Chief Product Officer, Solo Funds (Tech Stars '18)
Jan 2021- Aug 2021, New York, NY
Director, Click to Pay, Consumer Insights and Experience Delivery
Jan 2020 - Dec 2020, New York, NY
Director, Secure Remote Commerce (SRC), Checkout & Profile Management Services
Jan 2017 - Dec 2019, New York, NY
Senior Product Manager, MasterPass, Merchant & Consumer Wallet Services
May 2014 - January 2017, New York, NY
Lead Product Management Instructor & Curriculum Designer, Product School
July 2016 - December 2020, New York, NY
Lead Product Management Instructor, 2020 Shift
August 2016 - September 2016, New York, NY
Co-Founder, Chief Technology Officer, Squire (Y-Combinator '16)
Mar 2014 - May 2015, New York, NY
Product Manager
January 2013 - May 2014, New York, NY
Associate, Technical Business Analyst, Corporate Investment Bank
June 2011 - Jan 2013, New York, NY
Associate, Application Developer, Asset Management
January 2007 - June 2011, Jersey City, NJ
General Assembly New York, NY
Certificate in Product Management 10 week business course in 2013
Norfolk State University Norfolk, VA
B.Sc. Computer Science with an emphasis in Information Systems in 2006
Cum Laude Graduate | Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation Research Fellow | NSU Computer Science Scholar