What is the type of contract for this position?

The contract for this position is a Full-time contract

What's the salary range for the Sr. Product Manager, Applications Platform position?

The suggested salary for this position is $135,000 - $150,000

Is telecommuting possible for this position?

No, telecommuting is not possible for this position

Sr. Product Manager job at Betterment

About Betterment

Betterment is a leading, technology-driven financial services company that offers investing and retirement solutions for retail investors and investment advisors as well as financial wellness solutions, including a 401(k) for small and medium-sized businesses. Our team is passionate about our mission: making people’s lives better. We’re headquartered in NYC, and offer hybrid NY-based (three days/ week in-office) and select, non-NY-based remote positions.

About the role

Betterment’s mission is to empower people to do what’s best for their money so that they can live better. As a Sr. Product Manager on our Applications Platform team, you’ll be responsible for partnering with engineering management to co-lead our mobile and frontend engineering platform teams on their vision and roadmaps as they strive to build the cross-cutting capabilities, infrastructure, tools, and platform frameworks that developers on product teams use to write, test, and deploy delightful experiences to Betterment’s customers. This is a unique opportunity to align the vision and executional details of our customer-facing teams’ engineering needs with our internal engineering organization’s roadmap.

You are an organized and detail-oriented product manager with a technical background and perspective. You are a natural collaborator and love being part of a cross-functional team. You relish rolling up your sleeves and explaining complex requirements to engineers, designers, and data analysts...and you also build strong relationships with subject-matter experts across the company. You are masterful in prioritizing effectively and making tradeoffs across a range of tasks and initiatives. You live for iteration and know that the job of building software is never done.

You rapidly build rapport with people and teams and are respected by peers as a strong and honest partner. You are passionate about building a customer-centric business that will impart lasting change to the financial services sector.

This role is based out of our NYC office. Below we've reflected the base salary range we would offer for this position. Actual salaries may vary depending on factors including but not limited to location, experience, and performance. The range listed is just one component of Betterment’s total compensation package for employees.

New York City: $135,000 - $150,000

We offer a competitive equity package, health, dental and vision benefits, and a 401(k) offering with employer match as well as flexible PTO policy. This job is eligible for variable compensation in the form of a discretionary company incentive bonus.

A day in the life

Know how existing Betterment teams function and what their engineering areas of opportunity are
Translate those pain points and opportunities into product solutions that are valuable, usable, and feasible, partnering closely with your engineering and product peers
Focus on connecting Betterment’s Mobile Platform and Front End Platform team initiatives to the wider product, design, and engineering priorities
Establish and execute priorities flawlessly, working with engineering, product managers, and analytics to produce documentation and milestones that ensure solutions reach our internal teams as efficiently as possible
Develop the success metrics for your teams and the tracking plan to support it; understand and communicate how the work that you’re prioritizing is helping drive those metrics
Alongside your team, build a roadmap that increases platform stability, resiliency, performance, maintainability
Develop a deep level of user empathy through data, analysis, and internal user research
Have a direct impact on the financial success of American consumers every day

What we’re looking for

Product management experience in an engineering-centric technology role is essential to the success of this role.

Demonstrated success at communicating, prioritizing, and balancing needs cross-functionally
Obsessive attention to detail and strong organization skills in a fast-paced environment
Strong analytical abilities with a passion for data-inspired decision making
Ability to build strong relationships across functions within an organization
Creative problem solving skills that balance the regulatory realities and innovation
Ability to think abstractly about back-end builds and how that will translate into a customer and developer experience
Be able to construct narratives that help the organization see the long term vision of the platform; effectively translate technical concepts and initiatives to business stakeholders
A big plus: experience with high-consideration products and/or highly regulated industries

What being at Betterment means for you

We change lives

Join a community of innovators working to transform financial outcomes for real people. Your work will make an impact, always laddering up to our mission: making people's lives better.

We set audacious goals

We set them for the company, our customers, and ourselves—and we won’t stop until we reach them. We don’t just show up; we give our all, then celebrate our wins.

We value all perspectives

When we collaborate, we're at our best. We believe diverse perspectives lead to better outcomes and strive to uphold our supportive and inclusive community.

We invest in you with:

A competitive suite of benefits, including: medical, dental, and vision insurance; life and AD&D insurance; STD and LTD benefits, including infertility support and World Professional Association for Transgender Health approved benefits; and generous parental leave.
Flexible paid time off (and encouragement to use it!)
Meaningful opportunity for community building through our 6 Employee Resource Groups
Empowerment to own and lead change and affect the business
Dedicated professional development opportunities
Complimentary financial advice from our team of CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNERS™️
Lunch from our in-house chef three days a week at our NYC headquarters

What happens next

We’ll take a few weeks to review all applications. If we’d like to spend more time with you, we’ll reach out to arrange next steps, which will include 3-4 sets of meetings with your future colleagues.

In the interview process, we’ll look to learn more about your skills, experiences, capabilities, and motivators. Many of our questions will be aimed at understanding how you might operate here at Betterment. Depending on the role, we may ask you to complete a case study exercise or technical assessments, as we want to collect a robust set of data points to better inform our decisions.

On average, it takes us around 3-5 weeks to make a hiring decision, depending on your availability and sense of urgency. As a best practice, we aim to interview at least 2-3 final round candidates before making a hiring decision. Please note that, as we usually receive an overwhelming number of applications for open positions, we’re unable to offer individual feedback during the interview process.

We recognize that interviewing for a new role is a big deal. We appreciate you considering Betterment as the next step in your career, and our Recruiting Team is here to support and advocate for you through the interview process!

Please note that Betterment is dedicated to providing accommodations to candidates upon request. If you need accommodations at any point throughout the interview process, please reach out to your recruiter.

Come join us!

We’re an equal opportunity employer and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local fair employment practices laws. We strictly prohibit and do not tolerate discrimination against employees, applicants, or any other covered persons because of race, color, religion, creed, national origin or ancestry, ethnicity, sex, gender (including gender nonconformity and status as a transgender or transsexual individual), sexual orientation, marital status, age, physical or mental disability, citizenship, past, current or prospective service in the uniformed services, predisposing genetic characteristic, domestic violence victim status, arrest records, or any other characteristic protected under applicable federal, state or local law.

CPRA Language - CA Applicants ONLY

We collect and store personal information for the purposes of candidate tracking (for this role and future opportunities). The information you provide in the course of completing your application will be kept for up to 24 months. We use tools provided by third-party service providers but do not share candidate information for any purpose other than for recruiting. To access the data that is collected, request deletion or to make updates to your candidate profile, please email [email protected].

For jobs based out of our NYC HQ, we require in office attendance Tuesday through Thursday, weekly.