Senior Engineering Manager, Upstart
Conversion
$186.1-257.5k
+ Bonus & Equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
AI lending marketplace
Be an early applicant
AI lending marketplace
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$186.1-257.5k
+ Bonus & Equity + Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable effortless credit based on true risk.
Role
Who you are
- 2+ years of engineering management experience leading full-stack or frontend-leaning teams
- Proven success partnering with product and analytics to deliver measurable impact on customer-facing metrics
- Strong technical background with the ability to support and challenge technical decisions at a high level
- Excellent communication skills and a track record of collaboration with cross-functional stakeholders
- Experience building and scaling web applications with a focus on user experience and experimentation
Desirable
- Experience leading engineering teams in growth, funnel optimization, or personalization domains
- Prior exposure to A/B testing, machine learning integration, or high-scale experimentation frameworks
- Strong product mindset with a passion for understanding user behavior and making data-informed decisions
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines, automated testing, instrumentation, observability, and monitoring
What the job involves
- The Conversion Engineering team plays a critical role in improving the borrower experience and driving top-line performance. This team owns the Unified Funding Application experience, building and optimizing across the stack to provide borrowers with a seamless experience
- They sit at the intersection of engineering, product, machine learning, and design to run experiments, build personalized experiences, and rapidly launch high-impact product features. With deep investments in automation and data-driven decision-making, the team’s work directly impacts one of Upstart’s most critical operating metrics: conversion rate
- Lead and grow a high-performing team of 8+ engineers focused on transforming the application flow into a seamless, optimized, and personalized experience
- Own core borrower experiences from initial application through offer acceptance, shaping critical user touchpoints across multiple product lines
- Partner deeply with Product, Analytics, Machine Learning, Marketing, and Design to prioritize and launch high-impact A/B tests, personalization models, and product flows
- Drive cross-functional execution that keeps stakeholders informed and involved in order to make data-driven decisions
- Support and mentor engineers of all technical skill levels while fostering a culture of excellence, curiosity, and product-minded thinking
- Play a strategic role in technical decision-making, including challenging assumptions, validating approaches, and helping the team scale thoughtfully
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, with the goal of helping lenders serve more customers while making borrowing easier and more affordable.
Freddie
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 & CEO)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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