Principal Product Manager, Upstart

• 5-10 years experience in a marketplace product management role, with demonstrated success leading an engineering team to deliver critical initiatives in the domains of pricing, monetization, matching, routing, incentives
• Ability to build relationships and effectively collaborate with all levels of the organization, from C-level to individual contributors
• Ability to manage and influence through persuasion, negotiation, and consensus building

Desirable

• Upstart’s Marketplace Optimization team builds and scales systems that clear Upstart’s marketplace by balancing tradeoffs for borrowers, lenders, investors, and Upstart. We enable borrowers to access credit, and our capital partners to deploy capital efficiently and with confidence
• As the Principal Product Manager, Monetization at Upstart, you will partner with Machine Learning to optimize those systems, and work with our engineering and business teams to simplify and automate the operations of the system
• You will design experiments to test your best ideas, and be responsible for defining and hitting goals for every side of Upstart’s marketplace - you work directly on Upstart’s mission of offering the best rates for all Americans
• You'll own the fee and pricing mechanisms that determine what Upstart charges across its loan products, directly shaping what customers pay and what Upstart earns on every loan
• You'll use novel competitive and customer insight to find fee and pricing improvements, then translate them into sharper models and rules that make our rates competitive, fair, transparent, and trusted at scale
• You'll set the fee strategy and roadmap in partnership with ML, Risk, Legal/Compliance, Finance, and Engineering across multiple product lines deciding what to prioritize, why, and when, and keeping those teams aligned as priorities shift
• Ultimately, customers pay fairer, more competitive fees and Upstart grows revenue and trust because of your work