Avant · 1 week ago
Product Manager - Originations Growth
Greater Chicago Area
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$130K/yr - $175K/yr
5+ years expAvant is looking for a Product Manager to support their Originations Growth Pod, focusing on enhancing their originations platform for loans and credit cards. The role involves product planning, execution throughout the Product Life Cycle, and collaboration with engineering teams to meet business and customer satisfaction goals.
Consumer LendingFinanceFinancial ServicesFinTechLending
Responsibilities
Manage the originations growth platform product intake process
Own the platform stability and features, analyzing customer needs and pain points to translate them into product ideas
Understand and empathize with customers and come up with user personas to build deep understanding to represent the customer’s voice and solve for their needs throughout the product development processes
Work with business stakeholders and originations engineering partners to come up with a roadmap and help prioritize the roadmap by making key tradeoff decisions
Carry out impact assessment for roadmap items, flag and address any key risks, issues and dependencies
Work with internal teams to execute on the roadmap
Translate product strategy into detailed business and user requirements
Actively prioritize product backlog and coordinate planning to build and enhance our verifications platform
Create engineering requests with detailed technical requirements and clearly stage success criteria for testing and product acceptance
Assess launched products and tools to measure their outcome against the planned objectives and key results
Analyze metrics and data, identify trends and issues and come up with hypothesis recommendations and carry out experiments
Answer questions related to the product and its capabilities
Be at the forefront of the creation and maintenance of product documentation
Potential for people management
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in business, computer science, data science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
Ideally 5-7+ years of experience working with technology products with at least 5 years in Product Management working in fintech or similar industry
High proficiency in SQL and familiarity with Python
Demonstrated experience in defining a product strategy, creating a delivery plan, executing on that plan and learning from iterating on the plan to achieve the desired outcomes
High customer empathy
Agile development in a production environment at a startup or tech organization
Experience collaborating with engineers and designers to understand the technical scope of products and features
Strong communication skills and ability to interface with multiple stakeholders across the organization, with an eye towards building cross-functional collaboration and support
You are excited about building the business of Avant as a cohesive whole, not just building features or products in isolation
Strong interpersonal skills, communication skills, analytical skills, combined with intellectual curiosity, and a desire and ability to 'get sh!t done!'
Preferred
MBA is a plus
People management experience is a plus
Benefits
Choice of great Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plan options
401(k) match
Flexible Time Off
Flexible Work Environment - (i.e. Mon/Tues/Thurs in-person)
Generous Paid Parental Leave, Adoption Assistance and Post-parental leave ramp-up program
Lunch Allowance (Fooda) and In-office Snacks
Summer Fridays
Fun In-Office and Virtual Social Events
And who doesn’t love the swag
Company
Avant
Avant is an online lending platform that offers alternatives to its clients with safe financial products.
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$2.08BKey Investors
Ares ManagementWebBankPamlico Capital
2022-12-07Private Equity
2022-12-07Debt Financing· $250M
2022-07-14Debt Financing· $250M
Leadership Team
Matt Bochenek
CEO
Charles Whittaker
Chief Product Officer
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