Product Owner, Blend
$97-114k
+ Equity
Digital lending platform
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Digital lending platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$97-114k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To provide better lending for everyone, streamlining the end-to-end customer journey for banking products.
Role
Who you are
- 3+ years of experience as a Product Owner or similar role
- Experience in managing product backlogs and/or writing user stories
- Knowledge of the industry and market trends
- Experience working in SaaS or in the financial services/fintech industry is a plus
- Strong understanding of Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks effectively
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Capable of basic analysis, troubleshooting, and learning basic testing in lower environments
What the job involves
- The Product Owner maximizes product value by collaborating with key stakeholders, managing the product backlog, and ensuring the development team delivers business-aligned features
- They help lead the core engineering, product, and design team by prioritizing work, translating business needs into functional requirements, and overseeing the execution of ideas into manageable user stories that represent the customer's perspective
- The Product Owner maintains the product backlog's visibility, guides the development team through user stories, and is ultimately responsible for the acceptance of delivered features
- Product Vision and Strategy
- Champion and communicate the product vision and roadmap as defined by the product team, ensuring clear alignment throughout the product development lifecycle
- Collaborate with stakeholders to understand business objectives and market needs
- Support development of the product strategy aligned with company goals and trends in customer-driven product feedback
- Product Backlog Management
- Create and manage the product backlog
- Prioritize backlog items based on business value, customer feedback, and technical feasibility
- Write clear and concise user stories and acceptance criteria
- Collaborate with our Support and customer-facing teams to analyze and prioritize inbound customer feedback, questions, and reported issues
- Sprint Planning and Execution
- Participate and/or lead in sprint planning, review, and retrospective meetings
- Clarify user stories and provide guidance to the development team
- Review completed user stories and ensure they meet acceptance criteria
- Stakeholder Communication
- Act as a liaison between roadmap stakeholders and the product development team ensuring clarity needed for roadmap execution
- Provide regular updates on development progress to the Product Manager and other key stakeholders
- Gather and analyze stakeholder feedback
- Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
- Product backlog health and prioritization
- Delivery of product features on schedule
- Product development delivery predictability
- Stakeholder satisfaction
- Achievement of product vision aligned to business goals
Our take
Nowadays, the vast majority of housing deals are done online. This is possible because of companies like Blend, a digital banking platform out to simplify the mortgage process.
Blend is used by major banks and financial institutions to offer mortgages and consumer loans. It has proved popular thus far, although its success continues to be tied to interest rates and the housing market, which means a few bumps in the road are inevitable.
That being said, in 2023 the company set out a "path to profitability" that takes this into account. This should make for strong, and more importantly sustainable, growth in the future
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jan 2021
$300m
SERIES G
Aug 2020
$75m
SERIES F
Total funding: $665m
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health benefits
- Wellness program that covers a variety of activities, gym memberships, and more
- Partnerships to support all of life’s milestones: Origin Financial Wellness, Compsych Employee Assistance Program, RocketLawyer Legal Plan, and more
- Various leave programs including 16 weeks of paid parental leave with no tenure requirement
- Thoughtful, regular performance reviews
- Support for workshops and lectures to develop your craft
- Meaningful equity and 401(k) plan
- “Employee-first” environment, where most employees can work wherever they choose
- Flexible work schedule
- Open vacation policy
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Nima Ghamsari
(Founder & Head)They studied Computer Science at Harvard before working for 4 years in Business Development and Engineering at Palantir Technologies.
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