Consumer Lending Product Mgr

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve the end-to-end product roadmap—spanning personal loans, lines of credit, installment lending and other lending-related products and features.
• Conduct ongoing competitive and market analysis to identify trends, emerging technologies, and differentiation opportunities.
• Integrate client research, behavioral insights, and lifecycle performance data to inform prioritization.
• Develop business cases and articulate the strategic rationale behind roadmap investments.
• Independently lead cross-functional initiatives from discovery through launch, ensuring clarity of scope, requirements, timelines, and success measures.
• Translate business needs into technical and operational requirements.
• Oversee testing, QA, risk assessments, and issue resolution to ensure frictionless client experiences.
• Partner with Technology, Operations, Fraud, Compliance, and Risk to deliver secure, compliant, scalable solutions.
• Lead go-to-market planning for new features, enhancements, and lending-related capabilities.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Sales Enablement to develop positioning, frontline training, product collateral, and adoption strategies.
• Support pricing strategy, profitability optimization, and value proposition development.
• Champion client and frontline feedback to refine offerings and improve engagement.
• Manage vendor/service performance, including delivery timelines, SLAs, and network rule adherence.
• Build and maintain product scorecards and dashboards; evaluate KPIs across penetration, utilization, performance, and client behavior.
• Recommend enhancements based on data-driven insights and partner feedback.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college/university; advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of product management experience in financial services or retail banking.
• Strong understanding of consumer lending products, regulatory considerations and emerging technologies.
• Proven ability to independently lead complex product initiatives and manage cross-functional stakeholders.
• Experience with vendor management, integrations, and third-party financial services platforms.
• Strong communication, analytical, and strategic problem-solving skills.
• Experience supporting sales enablement and go-to-market execution preferred.