Principal Product Manager, Upstart

• 8+ years of product management experience
• Experience with product management or product design with a focus on software products and technologies
• Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience

Desirable

• As a Principal Product Manager, Insights & Financial Operations at Upstart, you’ll help bring best-in-class data access and business intelligence to our bank, credit union and capital market partners to help drive better decision making and program growth
• Upstart has many sets of data about every aspect of customer acquisition, credit decisioning, loan origination and post-origination servicing of our customers and your role will be to convert these data sets to actionable business insights and help scale our lending programs
• You will be a part of our Lending Platform team serving the ‘supply’ side of our business - the capital providers who fund loans for borrowers across a variety of loan categories
• You will also support our Finance team enhance our internal financial systems and improve data accuracy and availability in support of financial planning
• While you will be focused on serving the needs of the capital providers on our platform, this role will be very cross-functional and will require close calibration with our more technical data engineers and analysts building and maintaining the underlying infrastructure
• You will also work with our various loan product teams to help bring this level of insight across all our products - personal loans, auto loans, small dollar loans, home equity, etc
• PMs that thrive with complex data sets, working with a variety of business units and stakeholders, can bring clarity to complex technical problems and have experience with B2B analytics will be an especially strong fit here
• You’ll be part of the team charged with helping lending partners take advantage of our unique technology to achieve their business goals
• Our products range from end-to-end AI-enabled origination platforms to APIs that allow banks to integrate our technology into their existing systems and workflows
• As a Principal Product Manager, you will be responsible for one or more portions of these products, including KPIs, strategy, as well as execution
• You own prioritization, definition, and delivery of important features that affect all parts of the borrower and bank partner experience
• You’ll understand the needs of lending partners, capital markets and to define and build new solutions to meet their needs. What are their business objectives and how are those decisions made? What data, insights and proposals help drive those decisions?
• You’ll define the vision and strategy for external facing data access, reporting and analytics. What should we focus on, why and when?
• You will partner with our technical data teams - analytics engineering, data analytics and data engineering - to ensure our technical roadmap aligns with our business goals
• You’ll partner with and support our Finance, Accounting, and Treasury organizations by automating their manual processes
• Launch features on a regular basis in conjunction with the engineering teams. Bridge the gap between technical data analysts, software engineering and business stakeholders to drive clarity and prioritization