Senior Product Manager - Lending (Remote)

At Earnest, we believe in a world where paying for your education takes less time than earning your degree.  Join us on our mission to empower anyone seeking higher education to reduce the total price tag of their degree, supercharge their ability to pay down student debt, and get on the right financial track fast.

A little background on Earnest: We're a remote first FinTech company with an accomplished team who believe consumer lending can be radically improved and are doing something about it. We are disrupting the trillion dollar student loan industry by redefining what it means to be creditworthy. We created a company that combines data science, streamlined design, and technology to:

• Build products that simplify the lending process
• Personalize loans to suit the needs of our customers
• Engage with our customers through more human experiences

What makes an “Earnie” culture: 

Earnest’s culture is as dynamic as the products we’re building and defining every day. We’re a fast-growing company, and that means we’re constantly integrating the new perspectives of every individual.

Earnies define our culture as:

• Earn Happy Customers
• Our success comes from anticipating their needs and providing the solutions they’re looking for.
• Better is Better
• The path to great means getting better every day. We push ourselves, and each other, to remain curious and think differently.
• PhD in Moving Fast
• Our customers are tired of long wait times and large student loan bills so we constantly seek out ways to deliver faster.  
• Passion for Challenges
• Perseverance and optimism are just the start to take on the inertia of a national trillion-dollar problem. 
• Impact is a Team Sport
• We maximize our impact when we act as one team.

Our Earnie's are fun, innovative, and willing to rollup their sleeves to help their team succeed in a fast-paced environment. If this sounds like you, and you want to join us on our mission to radically disrupt a trillion dollar fintech industry, keep reading to find out how. 

As a Senior Product Manager, you will help identify product opportunities to deliver a technology roadmap that expands our product offerings and delivers new experiences to our customers. You will help drive technology innovation in the form of products, features, and platforms. You will contribute to the long-term strategy, vision, and roadmap. As a key member of the Product leadership team, the Senior Product Manager will work with other leaders across Engineering, Design, Marketing, Operations, and Data. You will report to the Director of Product Management and work on the following:

Execution

• Write and Review Product Requirement Documents (PRDs)
• Prioritize bug lists
• Provide weekly updates to stakeholders
• Maintain dashboards + track product KPIs

Strategy

• Identify new, meaningful product opportunities that fit into a squad's overarching vision, gets onto the roadmap, and achieves their intended objectives
• Inspire and define a clear product vision and plan for a squad, which proves to enable that team's overall success

Prioritization

• Drive progress on a complete roadmap- even in the face of obstacles or conflict - by building consensus, making decisions, and escalating as appropriate
• Negotiate and persuade product leaders to get buy-in for ideas
• Maintain a prioritized, rolling product roadmap that is updated at least weekly

Hiring and Coaching

• Regularly contributes to PM recruiting
• Materially enables the success of other PMs in related areas

Ideal background and expertise: 

• 5+ years of experience at leading technology companies in Product Management or other roles bridging business and technology
• A successful history of working on consumer products required , consumer-based financial services experience preferred.
• A proven history of owning a product and driving growth 
• Ability to analyze and use data to inform decisions
• An entrepreneurial mindset, ready to assemble and lead cross-functional teams.
• Excellent interpersonal skills
• Ability to influence across all levels and foster alignment and a sense of urgency
• Excellent communication skills and possess the ability to distill key takeaways quickly
• MBA preferred

Earnest believes in enabling our employees to live their best lives. We offer a variety of perks and competitive benefits that include: 

• Health, Dental, & Vision benefits plus savings plans
• Work anywhere in the U.S. 
• Mac computers + work from home stipend to set up your home office
• Monthly internet and phone reimbursement
• Employee Stock Purchase Plan
• 401(k) plan to help you save for retirement plus a company match
• Robust tuition reimbursement program
• $1,000 travel perk on each Earnie-versary to anywhere in the world 
• Competitive days of annual PTO
• Annual “my day” 
• Pet insurance!
• Competitive parental leave
• Plenty of Earnest swag, optional in person team gatherings, picnics, celebrations, and plenty of fun virtual events 

At Earnest, we are committed to building an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity, inclusion, equity, and belonging enables us to move forward with our mission. We are dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team and encourage anyone to apply if your experience is close to what we are looking for.  

Earnest provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. Qualified applicants with criminal histories will be considered for the position in a manner consistent with the Fair Chance Ordinance.

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