Interim Senior Product Manager

Achieve is a leading digital personal finance company. We help everyday people move from struggling to thriving by providing innovative, personalized financial solutions. By leveraging proprietary data and analytics, our solutions are tailored for each step of our member's financial journey to include personal loans, home equity loans, debt consolidation, financial tools and education. Every day, we get to help our members move their finances forward with care, compassion, and empathetic touch. We put people first and treat them like humans, not account numbers.

Since 2002, Achieve has grown into one of the largest private consumer fintech unicorns in the U.S., with over $40B in enrollments for our industry-leading, tech-enabled debt resolution services business, and over $11Bn in personal and home loans originations via our banking-as-a-service partner.

This is a temporary role for approximately six months.  There is a possibility of conversion to full-time employment.  

What you’ll do:

Our business offers multiple lending products and we are in the midst of transforming our lending business driving best in class consumer and agent experiences powered by strong credit decisioning. In this role as an Interim Senior Product Manager, a unique opportunity to define, shape and ultimately deliver on strategic initiatives to create a lending platform leveraging the latest technology innovations in credit decisioning.  

You will collaborate tightly with a team of researchers, designers, data engineers, data scientists and engineers to scale our decisioning space through new feature development and rapid experimentation. This role is highly visible and report results regularly to senior and executive leadership.

We’re looking for a driven, self-starting product manager to work alongside the existing team to drive and execute on strategic priorities. You’ll have responsibility to drive growth for our business in approval rate, verifications, loan origination volume, pull through, conversion, etc.

• Product Delivery: Lead the advancement of lending business by driving product development. This entails taking charge of specific elements of the origination platform, encompassing funnel enhancement, integrations, and above all, consumer and internal user experience improvements.

• Execution: Assume accountability for carrying out intricate initiatives from their inception to continually refining established features and user experiences. Collaborate with the cross functional team to deliver great products. 

• Partnerships: Cultivate dependable internal and external relationships, particularly with Engineering and pivotal third-party collaborators, to efficiently leverage their insights in shaping product strategy and execution.

• Roadmap Development: Independently propel and conceptualize new additions to the roadmap, demonstrating ingenuity and innovation while garnering a high level of confidence from the management team.

What you’ll bring

• Experience with lending, credit decisioning and origination is highly desirable.

• 6+  years of experience in Product Management with practical experience in developing, managing and delivering consumer-facing or agent-facing applications/experiences. Fintech, lending or banking experience is highly desired.

• A fundamentally user-centric approach to product iteration with solid design sense

• Strongly data-driven and technical: you have a track record of leveraging your ability to collect and analyze data from a variety of sources to identify key insights, spot optimization opportunities, run quantitative tests, and inform product decisions, leading to lift in critical metrics

• Proven ability to lead teams and work cross-functionally in a highly collaborative environment.

• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with a structured and rigorous thought process.

• Ability to build iteratively & ship quickly with great personal organization and a long history of effectively managing multiple priorities & personal organization.

• Solid understanding of key metrics and how digital customer acquisition works across within the loan origination process

• College degree, preferably in business or technology field of study.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Achieve well-being with:

• 401 (k) with employer match
• Medical, dental, and vision with HSA and FSA options  
• Competitive vacation and sick time off, as well as dedicated volunteer days
• Access to wellness support through Employee Assistance Program, physical and mental health wellness programs
• Pet care discounts for your furry family members
• Financial support in times of hardship with our Achieve Care Fund
• A safe place to connect and a commitment to diversity and inclusion through our six employee resource groups

Join Achieve, change the future.

We are proudly offering hybrid options in the San Mateo, CA and Phoenix, AZ metro market. In other locations throughout the country, we offer work from home.

Salary Range: $75.00 to $100.00 per hour + benefits. 

This information represents the expected salary range for this role. Should we decide to make an offer for employment, we'll consider your location, experience, and other job-related factors.

Attention Agencies & Search Firms: We do not accept unsolicited candidate resumes or profiles. Please do not reach out to anyone within Achieve to market your services or candidates. All inquiries should be directed to Talent Acquisition only. We reserve the right to hire any candidates sent unsolicited and will not pay any fees without a contract signed by Achieve’s Talent Acquisition leader.

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