Generative AI Product Manager, Avant
$165-185k
+ Annual bonus
M, T, Th in-office
3+ days a week in office
Personal credit FinTech
Open for applications
Personal credit FinTech
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$165-185k
+ Annual bonus
M, T, Th in-office
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower every customer with innovative solutions designed to help them reach their goals.
Role
Who you are
- AI-First Mindset: A power user of AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude, GitHub Copilot, etc.), with curiosity for experimenting and applying them in real workflows
- Product Builder: 5+ years in product or program management, ideally in tech or fintech, with experience taking concepts from zero to shipped solutions
- Data Fluent: Comfortable with SQL and working in a data platform like Databricks; strong instincts for measuring impact with data
- System Thinker: Able to connect dots across business workflows, data pipelines, and AI opportunities—not just tasks
- Great Communicator: You can translate technical possibilities into business outcomes, and align executives, engineers, and end users alike
- Action-Oriented: You move quickly, prototype relentlessly, and aren’t afraid to break and learn
Desirable
- Experience embedding GenAI into customer-facing fintech or data-driven products
- Familiarity with AI infrastructure and tooling (LangChain, vector databases, LLM APIs)
- Hands-on experience with Databricks for data pipelines, ML models, or AI experimentation
- A track record of shipping AI-powered tools (whether formally at work or informally on your own)
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Generative AI Product Manager who thrives at the intersection of data, product, and innovation
- This role is about more than just experimenting with AI tools—it’s about scaling AI impact across the business. You’ll help us unlock value from our Databricks data platform, design AI-powered workflows and products, and lead the enablement of AI across teams
- You’ll be both a builder and an orchestrator: prototyping AI solutions, shaping enterprise use cases, and helping establish the foundations—tools, governance, and culture—that make AI sustainable at scale
- Prototype & Pilot AI Use Cases: Build scrappy MVPs and run hands-on pilots that leverage our data (in Databricks) and AI tooling to solve real business problems
- Scale AI Agents & Workflows: Deploy AI copilots and automation for high-value internal workflows (e.g. customer support, underwriting, analytics)
- Partner on AI Roadmap: Work with business units to identify, prioritize, and validate AI opportunities—balancing quick wins with longer-term strategic bets
- Enable AI Across the Org: Drive adoption by building shared repositories of use cases, running enablement sessions, and integrating AI literacy into company culture
- Measure Impact: Define metrics for adoption, efficiency, and quality of AI solutions; use data to guide iteration and scaling
- Shape AI Governance & Best Practices: Partner with Product, Data, and Engineering to establish standards around safety, compliance, and responsible AI use
Our take
Many Americans with below average credit scores are caught in a bind: they're unable to improve their score, and simultaneously cannot access traditional loans. Avant's alternative is to offer credit options that are powered by machine learning and based upon a large database that helps to manage risk.
For its users, the company offers a quick credit decision and speedy access to any allotted funds. It has issued over $8 billion in loans to date, and has also expanded its business through the acquisitions of ReadyForZero in 2015 and Zero Financial in 2021.
This expansion has enabled Avant to reach towards its goal of offering a whole suite of products in a single platform, such as loans, credit cards, and deposits. Although there are many FinTechs looking at ways to remove the barriers that people with low credit scores face when trying to take out loans, this expansion to banking products should help Avant to stand out.
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Insights
-3% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Dec 2022
$125m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Sep 2015
$325m
SERIES E
Total funding: $779m
Company benefits
- Choice of great medical, dental, and vision insurance plan options
- 401(k) Match
- Unlimited paid time off
- Flexible work environment
- Generous paid parental leave
- Lunch allowance (Fooda) and in-office snacks
- WFH stipends for our remote employees
- Access to LinkedIn Learning for professional development
- No meeting wednesdays - (a.k.a. planned time to Get Sh!t Done)
- Summer fridays
- Fun in-office and virtual social events
- (And who doesn’t love the swag)
Company HQ
River North, Chicago, IL
Leadership
Al Goldstein
(Co-Founder & Executive Chair)They worked for a year at Deutsche Bank before founding Pangea Properties in 2008, and Avant in 2013. They have been Chair since, alongside founding Amount, Spring Labs, and StoicLane.
Paul Zhang
(Co-Founder & CIO)Having studied at the University of Illinois, they spent a year as a Software Engineer at CashNetUSA and Enova Financial. They founded Debteye in 2011, before starting Avant in 2013, serving first as CTO then Chief Architect, CTO again and finally CIO.
Matthew Bochenek
(CEO)Has been with the business since 2013, working in a range of positions including Head of US Servicing, Head of Operations and COO - before becoming CEO in 2021. Previously spend a decade at Superfund Asset Management.
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