Principal Product Manager, Upstart
Experimentation Platform
$187.9-260k
Upstart provides employees with target bonuses, and equity compensation
AI lending marketplace
Be an early applicant
AI lending marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$187.9-260k
Upstart provides employees with target bonuses, and equity compensation
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable effortless credit based on true risk.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience) and 7+ years of product management experience
- Experience owning strategy and roadmaps for technically complex software, platform, infrastructure, data, or developer-facing products
- Experience partnering with engineering, data science, Machine Learning, or Analytics teams on technical product architecture, tradeoffs, and delivery
- Experience applying quantitative methods, including statistics, experimentation, analytics, or data science, to product development and decision-making
- Experience developing platforms that support Machine Learning or AI workflows, including deployment, measurement, or experimentation
Desirable
- Experience building or leading an experimentation platform product, either within a consumer technology company or at an experimentation technology provider
- Knowledge of experimentation methodologies, including randomized experiments, feature flags, model experimentation, metric design, and statistical evaluation
- Ability to develop platform strategies that connect shared technical capabilities to broader company and product priorities
- Ability to communicate complex technical and quantitative concepts to audiences ranging from engineers and data scientists to senior leaders
- Ability to build alignment across multiple product and technical teams and establish shared practices in a distributed organization
What the job involves
- Help Upstart become the world’s most radically pro-consumer company in finance! Upstart’s Experimentation Platform team is building shared foundations that make experimentation easier, more reliable, and more valuable across the company
- The team partners closely with Machine Learning, Analytics, product, and engineering teams to bring greater coherence to Upstart’s experimentation capabilities, improve experimentation rigor, and enable teams to learn and innovate faster
- As the Principal Product Manager, Experimentation Platform, you will co-lead this emerging platform area with cross-functional partners, shaping both its long-term strategy and the capabilities teams rely on today
- You’ll help unify experimentation across teams, expand model deployment and experimentation capabilities, and establish practices that enable Upstart to scale experimentation with greater confidence
- Define and drive the strategy and roadmap for Upstart’s experimentation platform, balancing immediate business needs with a scalable, long-term platform vision supportive of agentic products
- Collaborate with Machine Learning, Analytics, and Engineering to build shared experimentation capabilities, including approaches for randomized experiments, model deployments, feature flags, and other emerging patterns
- Create common abstractions and guardrails that reduce fragmentation, improve experimentation quality, and make it easier for product and engineering teams to test and learn
- Establish a center of excellence for experimentation by defining standards, improving functional rigor, and enabling teams across Upstart to adopt effective experimentation practices
- Partner with stakeholder teams across Growth, Servicing, Capital, and Upstart’s broader organization to understand needs, prioritize opportunities, and drive adoption of shared capabilities
- Guide Upstart’s approach to experimentation technology and vendor partnerships, evaluating where external solutions and internally developed capabilities best support the platform strategy
Our take
Based in San Mateo, California, Upstart is piositioning itself as a leading AI lending marketplace, connecting millions of consumers with more than 100 banks and credit unions. In a market where credit access can be limited by traditional scoring methods, Upstart aims to make lending fairer and more accessible by using technology to better understand each borrowers true potential.
Upstart builds AI and cloud-based tools that help lenders approve more borrowers at lower rates. Its models analyze thousands of variables (not just credit scores) to predict creditworthiness more accurately. And through its platform, consumers can access personal, auto, and home-equity loans, as well as smaller "relief" loans, all through a seamless digital experience.
So far, its success is reflected in its high loan automation rate (over 90% of loans are fully processed without human intervention) and the billions in loan originations it has facilitated. The company continues to refine its AI models and expand its offerings, and in 2026 earned provisional approval to establish "Upstart Bank" as a bank in the US.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-16% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Apr 2019
$50m
SERIES D
Mar 2017
$32.5m
SERIES D
Total funding: $135.7m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health plans
- 401k Plan
- Annual wellness reimbursement
- Disability insurance
- Generous vacation policy
- Flexible time off
- Parental leave
- Family forming benefits through Carrot
- Technology equipment budget
- Personal development budget
- Various clubs and extracurricular activities
- Catered lunches
- Fully stocked micro-kitchen
Company HQ
South San Mateo, San Mateo, CA
Leadership
David Girouard
(Founder & Executive Chair)They started their career at Accenture and Booz Allen & Hamilton before working in Product Management at Apple and Virage. They left their role of 8 years as President of Enterprise at Google to found Upstart in March 2012.
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