Product Manager, Personal Finance

Product Manager, Personal Finance for All

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Job Summary

• DATE POSTED 2 days ago
• Schedule Full-time
• Job Code 4803
• Employee Status Fixed-Term
• Grade K
• Requisition

This position is a 2-year fixed-term role.

Stanford's Graduate School of Business (GSB) has built a global reputation through immersive and innovative management programs. We provide students with a transformative leadership experience, pushing the boundaries of knowledge with faculty research and offering a portfolio of entrepreneurial and non-degree programs that deliver global impact like no other. We are committed to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in service of our mission of developing innovative, principled, and insightful leaders who change lives, change organizations, and change the world.

We invite you to be part of this mission.

The Initiative for Financial Decision-Making (IFDM), a collaboration among the Stanford Graduate School of Business (GSB), the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR), and the Economics Department, is recruiting a Product Manager for its Personal Finance for All efforts based at the GSB in Stanford, CA. IFDM is spearheading the effort to improve people’s financial well-being through financial literacy. IFDM’s mission is to equip people, especially the young and underprivileged, with skills for making informed financial decisions based on sound academic research insights.

Despite the growth of personal finance education, challenges remain. IFDM works to support high schools, universities, and employers by providing tools, programs, and research-based evidence to promote financial literacy on a large scale.

Funded through a generous gift, IFDM has ambitious goals and seeks a mission-driven Product Manager to lead the development of new technological platforms to transform IFDM’s financial literacy curriculum into engaging, interactive learning experiences. This role is ideal for someone who thrives in a startup-like environment within an academic ecosystem and has experience developing apps. You will lead the full lifecycle of high-impact educational products, such as an app, an online resource library, and a chatbot.

Additionally, you will collaborate with Stanford faculty, researchers, engineers, designers, and students to transform the academic curriculum into digital tools that teach core personal finance skills.
Financial literacy is more important than ever. This project presents an opportunity to build something that matters  will help shape a product that has the potential to transform financial literacy outcomes.

• Lead the design and development of digital applications (web and mobile), ensuring products are user-friendly, scalable, and aligned with IFDM goals.
• Translate financial literacy curriculum into modular, interactive content within a seamless app experience and other digital tools.
• Conduct user research and usability testing to continuously iterate and improve learning outcomes.
• Ensure accessibility and engagement across mobile (iOS/Android) and web platforms.
• Analyze and use user data to inform decision-making and drive product iteration.
• Develop lifecycle strategies to ensure continuity in the face of changes in operating systems and technical advancements.
• Manage planning, timelines, metrics, and stakeholder communications.
• Ensure work completion within schedule, budgetary, and design constraints; make decisions about analysis, design, and testing.
• Solve complex technical problems; provide alternative methods for achieving goals when necessary.
• Provide strategic planning for own work group; may assist higher-level management in broader scope strategic planning for a significant, complex, university-wide function or major initiative.
• Create procedures and guidelines to ensure compliance with university policy…