Senior Product Associate - Alternative Lending

Job Summary

Unleash your expertise in product development and optimization by leveraging user research, analyzing metrics, and collaborating across one of the world’s most innovative financial organizations.

As a Senior Product Associate in Lending Innovation you are an integral part of the team that creates new innovative lending product offerings and leads the end-to-end product life cycle. As a core leader, you are responsible for acting as the voice of the customer and developing profitable products that provide customer value. Utilizing your deep understanding of how to get a product off the ground, you guide the successful launch of products, gather crucial feedback, and ensure top-tier client experiences.

With a strong commitment to scalability, resiliency, and stability, you collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to deliver high-quality products that exceed customer expectations end-to-end.

• Define the vision and strategy for product initiatives and features
• Manage discovery efforts and research to uncover customer solutions and integrate them into the product roadmap
• Owns, maintains, and develops a product backlog that enables development to support the overall strategic roadmap and value proposition
• Prioritizes and sequences across many teams and work streams
• Partner closely with Technology, Design, and Analytics teams to lead product development efforts
• Collaborate with a team of cross-functional partners to ensure a strong risk and controls environment (e.g., Legal, Risk, Compliance, & Controls)
• Define features and communicate requirements to engineering in clearly written documentation
• Monitor against goals, identify and scope implementation paths for needed enhancements, and create remediation plans when needed
• Manage executive stakeholder relationships and regularly communicate updates on the product strategy, progress and performance

• 3+ years of experience in product management or a relevant domain area
• Familiar with Fraud, Operations, or Risk for financial products
• Strong knowledge of APIs, engineering practices, and the product development lifecycle using Agile methodologies
• Ability to lead discovery and creation of Requirements and Design
• Ability to think strategically while still being comfortable diving into the details required to ensure successful execution
• Proven success in collaborating with cross-functional teams, influencing and driving decisions

• Experience in Financial Services and consumer lending products