Hi, I'm Saad

Product Manager

across banking, retail
& restaurants

I turn ambiguous problems into shipped products, pairing technical depth with strategic product thinking to define vision, build roadmaps, and align engineering, design, and business around shared outcomes.

Dallas, TX
View my work281.854.5440
Saad Faiz
10+
years in product & delivery
ToolkitRoadmappingDiscovery & researchAgile / ScrumJira & ConfluenceSQL & analyticsFigmaAPI & integrationsStakeholder alignment
Experience

Where I've built and shipped

Oct 2023 — Present
Dallas, TX

Business System Analyst III, AVP

First Citizens Bank

Lead Tier 2/3 technical support for the Digital Banking application serving consumer and business customers — running root-cause analyses to eliminate recurring incidents and minimize MTTR, monitoring production health, and stewarding Jira user stories through the full SDLC.

Digital BankingServiceNow ITSMProduction supportSLA & KPIs
Oct 2021 — Oct 2023
McDonald's

Senior Product Engineer

Capgemini

Owned end-to-end product development and the global launch of a mobile app for a top-five fast-food chain. Defined roadmaps from market trends and user research, led Agile ceremonies, authored BDD user stories and API specs, and partnered with design on Figma prototypes.

0→1 mobile appGlobal launchAgileFigma
Apr 2020 — Oct 2021
Virtusa · Citi

Product Manager

Virtusa Corporation

Directed a scalable reporting ecosystem for regulatory and management reporting, led the migration from legacy systems to a cloud-based microservices architecture, and revamped user access and entitlements to simplify how teams request and manage roles.

Reporting platformCloud migrationMicroservicesKPIs
Feb 2018 — Apr 2020
Dallas, TX

Business System Analyst

Hyla Mobile

Enhanced Single Sign-On experiences and hybridized native apps, integrating website features to improve mobile functionality and security. Ran extensive API testing with Postman, and built reports and analytics from PostgreSQL using SQL and QlikView.

SSOAPI testingPostgreSQLQlikView
Apr 2016 — Jan 2018
Dallas, TX

Business Analyst

JP Morgan Chase

Drove a refined pricing model for automotive lending with a granular scoring structure, and rolled out Five9 chat and email services to boost support quality for over 1,000 dealerships nationwide — applying Scrum and SDLC practices across API development.

Auto lendingFive91,000+ dealershipsScrum
Mar 2015 — Apr 2016
Red River · Wells Fargo

Business Analyst

Red River Staffing

Led Dodd-Frank compliance initiatives and defined requirements for online brokerage and trading systems across asset classes — including derivatives, swaps, and equity options — while designing data models and managing data governance.

Dodd-FrankTrading systemsData governanceCompliance
Recent project

A product I'm proud of

01

Digital Banking reliability

First Citizens Bank

Re-architected Tier 2/3 support with RCA, proactive health monitoring, and ServiceNow workflows to cut recurring incidents.

Lower MTTR & repeat escalations
02

Reporting ecosystem

Virtusa · Citi

Built a scalable regulatory & management reporting platform and migrated legacy systems to cloud microservices.

Legacy → cloud microservices
03

Auto-lending pricing model

JP Morgan Chase

Refined the automotive-lending pricing model and rolled out Five9 chat & email across the dealer network.

Served 1,000+ dealerships
Certifications & education

Credentials & training

Generative AI Leader

Google Cloud · June 2026

Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)

Microsoft · Jan 2025

Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)

Scrum Alliance · Sep 2023

Professional Scrum Master I

Scrum.org · June 2020

B.B.A, Finance & Banking

Sam Houston State University
June 2015
Contact

Let's build
something good.

Hiring, collaborating, or just want to compare notes on product? My inbox is always open.

EmailSFAIZ1496@gmail.comPhone281.854.5440LinkedInin/saad-faiz