Principal/Lead Product Manager, Canopy
$165-190k
+ Equity as part of our competitive comp packages
API-first loan management and servicing platform
Open for applications
API-first loan management and servicing platform
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$165-190k
+ Equity as part of our competitive comp packages
21-100 employees
Company mission
Canopy's mission is to help build and launch better debit, credit, and lending products, to make financial products should more personal, transparent, and safe.
Role
Who you are
- Experience in working in Fintech lending and banking
- In-depth understanding of the lending life cycle and key financial concepts
- Proven track record in making informed product decisions and designing MVP solutions in ambiguous environments
- Strong technical proficiency, especially with SQL and other analytical tools; Python and Node.js knowledge is a significant plus
- Experience in remote work environments and proven history of achievement
- Excellent communication skills, capable of discussing complex technical details with a variety of audiences
Desirable
- Experience building machine learning and AI products
- Deep understanding of small businesses and SMB lending
What the job involves
- As a Principal/Lead Product Manager at Canopy, you will drive our business and customer impact. You'll take on a central role, deeply understanding customer needs within the fintech domain, and leveraging this insight to drive impactful initiatives. Not only will you own these initiatives, but you will also contribute significantly to the overall product strategy particularly around ML/AI
- Demonstrate and Expand Domain Expertise: Actively enhance your knowledge of the lending domain, competitors, ecosystem partners, and the fintech infrastructure industry
- Represent Canopy as an expert in our product: enabling you to speak concisely about it to technical or nontechnical audiences
- Present confidently and effectively: by creating presentations and high-quality material for internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership and sales prospects
- Influence Scope and Priority: Understanding user needs, and using those to drive business goals. Constantly framing, and reframing these as we learn. Ultimately making hard judgment tradeoffs between features and speed to market
- Advocate for Customer Needs: Analyze and address customer challenges to enhance business operations
- Iteratively Enhance the User Experience: Simplify complex back-office processes into user-friendly digital solutions
- Champion Impact: Communicate the value we provide to a broad set of stakeholders
- Connect the Dots Across the Organization: Foster collaboration across functions to enhance product development and corporate health
- 50% of your time working directly with your team on problem and solution discovery, framing, prioritization, and future planning
- 20% building context for stakeholders, communicating cross-functionally, and working with others on the product team
- 20% Market research, competitor analysis, and gathering customer feedback to refine and adapt product strategies
- 10% Team and relationship building, process improvement, and personal development
Our take
Canopy was founded on the belief that while most fintech startups focus on things like financial transfers, checking and savings accounts, they also wish to break into the much more lucrative credit and lending markets.
However, they face too many barriers when it comes to loan servicing. To answer this problem, the company offers an API-driven loan servicing platform which allows them to build, launch, and manage loans.
There’s been an explosion in the API-first startup landscape of late, largely driven by how they vastly reduce product launch times. Indeed, plenty in the industry – including Canopy CEO Matt Bivons – believe that soon they will overtake end-to-end tech stacks.
It’s too early to say if they’re right or wrong, but the fact that Canopy is offering an in-demand product in a huge credit and lending market bodes well.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2023
$15.2m
SERIES A
Aug 2021
$15m
SERIES A
Total funding: $33.7m
Company benefits
- Space and support to grow
- Comp package in the 90th percentile of startups our size
- Flexible Vacation
- Parental Leave Policy
- 401k matching
- Monthly stipend for mental/physical wellness
- Excellent health, vision, and dental package
- Home office set-up package
- Yearly team offsite somewhere fun
- Donation (give-back) budget
- Fully remote company
Company HQ
Claymont, DE
Leadership
Matt Bivons
(CEO)Former VP of Growth & GM of Consumer at GreenSky (a Goldman Sachs Company), Head of Growth at fintech startup Earnest, and Director of Growth at vacation rental marketplace VaycayHero.
Will Hanson
(CTO)Co-founded and was CTO of home services messaging app Hatch. Former CTO of fintech platform Intuit, Director Of Engineering at LendUp, and Software Engineer at Capital One.
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