Principal Product Manager, Upstart

• The ideal candidate is a seasoned product leader with a successful track record of defining and launching complex B2B products
• They should be customer focused with excellent written and verbal communication skills and have a structured approach to understanding complex product problems
• 7-10+ years of product experience
• Experience with product management or product design with a focus on software products and technologies
• BA/BS in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Desirable

• As a Principal Product Manager at Upstart, you’ll be part of the Lending Partnerships team charged with helping our lending partners (banks and credit unions) take advantage of our unique technology to achieve their business goals
• Upstart is a marketplace business – our B2C oriented growth teams find individuals that can benefit from our AI driven lending products and our B2B supply-side teams bring capital to the platform to fund these loans and deliver value to those providers
• You will be responsible for defining the strategy to create that supply-side value for banks and credit unions and own the prioritization, definition, and delivery of your roadmap to bring that strategy to life
• Our products range from end-to-end AI-enabled origination platforms, developing new go to market channels, to APIs that allow banks to integrate our technology into their existing systems and workflows
• You will also work widely across our other vertical teams to be the voice of lending partners as we develop our broader product suite
• Strategy – Develop and own the long-term roadmap in your area. Understand the needs of lending partners and the current market landscape to define products and go to market paths to meet their needs. What are their business objectives and how are those decisions made? What are the best ways to address those needs and expand the impact of our underwriting models and loan products?
• Execution – Work with our engineering, design, analytics and functional customer facing teams to build and ship on the product roadmap. Effectively balance quality, speed and scope to deliver successful outcomes from your shipped features
• Communication – effectively work with all levels of leadership and adjacent teams to build buy in, support and awareness on your initiatives. Consider nuanced tradeoffs within your products and manage the impacts on adjacent teams. Earn trust across a range of stakeholders and partners
• Go to market – lead the go to market process, user testing, program success criteria, rollout strategy, and coordination with partner teams for successful launches and post-launch iteration