Principal Product Manager, Self Financial
$142-190k
+ Company equity in the form of Stock Options
Credit and savings-building platform
Posted today
Credit and savings-building platform
501-1000 employees
Posted today
$142-190k
+ Company equity in the form of Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable people to build credit, build savings, and reach their goals.
Role
Who you are
- You are a product leader who moves fluidly between strategy and execution
- You dive deep into the product, protect the team’s focus, and build a clear vision that aligns with customer needs and business goals
- You don’t just ship features, you craft intentional iterations, observe outcomes, and scale what works
- You're known for making smart trade-offs, advocating for the customer, and driving momentum across complex, cross-functional initiatives
- You possess strong technical fluency, enabling you to collaborate effectively with engineering on how the product is built (not just what it does) ensuring long-term scalability
- You're equally comfortable inspiring a team to do their best work and making hard decisions when trade-offs are necessary
What the job involves
- Define and evolve the product strategy for the Borrow & Spend portfolio, with a focus on sustainable credit building and customer empowerment
- Lead product discovery, iteration planning, and launches — balancing incremental experiments with big bets
- Champion a customer-first mindset through qualitative and quantitative insights, a/b testing, and usability validation
- Act as a thought partner to engineering — shaping how features are architected to support long-term platform goals
- Manage multiple concurrent initiatives across different stages, from scoping to execution to rollout
- Inspire teams to stay focused, make tough trade-offs, and ship high-quality work at pace
- Communicate product strategy, vision, and outcomes to executives and stakeholders with clarity and influence
- Maintain deep subject matter expertise in our card products, compliance requirements, and market positioning
- Maintain an awareness of major industry trends, competitive feature landscape and developing appropriate prioritization
- 7–10+ years of product management experience, with recent leadership in complex or regulated product domains
- Experience owning a product end-to-end, from vision and roadmap to launch and iteration
- A track record of influencing across disciplines and levels, with clear and persuasive communication
- Strong analytical skills and fluency with both data (SQL a plus) and qualitative research methods
- Technical fluency — you understand how systems fit together and speak the language of engineers
- Experience in credit, lending, or financial infrastructure is strongly preferred
- A deep sense of ownership and commitment to Self’s mission of building economic inclusion
Our take
Almost 50 million Americans are “credit invisible” with no credit score at all, while there are also around the same number with low credit scores. The ramifications of this are profound, as it goes on to affect mortgage and rental applications, personal loans, and even job prospects.
Self is one of many fintechs, along with the likes of Better, TomoCredit and SoFi, that are attempting to help people get easier access to loans, and in turn credit scores. The company offers consumers instalment loans and its own Visa credit card, regardless of their current credit score.
While there’s lots of competition in this particular fintech niche, Self has been scaling up rapidly over the last few years, increasing its headcount and expanding into credit reporting for rent with its acquisition of RentTrack. With its innovative approach and growing range of services, Self is positioned to continue making a meaningful impact on financial inclusion.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$50m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$40m
SERIES D
Total funding: $127.6m
Company benefits
- Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, FSA, HSA
- 401(k) investment plan
- Equity incentive plan
- Flexible time off
- Paid Parental Leave for primary and secondary care givers
- Wellness programs and fitness benefits
- Professional development reimbursement
- Reward and recognition program
- Hybrid work environment
Company HQ
East Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX
Leadership
James Garvey
(Founder & Member of the Board of Directors)Founded Self Financial in 2014 and served as the CEO until 2023. Previously founded GK Equity and co-founded Objective Loyalty where they served as the CTO for 5 years.
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