Principal Product Manager, Self Financial
Rent and Bills Reporting
$171-209k
Offers Company equity in the form of Stock Options and Performance-based bonuses
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Credit and savings-building platform
Be an early applicant
Credit and savings-building platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$171-209k
Offers Company equity in the form of Stock Options and Performance-based bonuses
More information about location
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To enable people to build credit, build savings, and reach their goals.
Role
Who you are
- You have strong empathy for users and a drive to discover and resolve their pain points
- You use that customer discovery to shape the product direction.You thrive in a fast paced, fast growing start up environment
- You understand the importance of collaborating with other teams but are also able to act quickly as the decision-maker when required
- You have a passion for our mission of helping people to build credit and save money
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, or a related field
- 8+ years of experience in product management, with a focus on developing customer facing products and solutions
- Experience leading a product independently; balancing strategy, customer, and business outcomes
- Experience documenting requirements, user stories, and specifications from business teams
- Excellent communication and leadership skills, with the ability to influence and collaborate with stakeholders at all levels
- Strategic mindset on leveraging qualitative and quantitative data with strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions
- Ability to work closely with user experience(UX) and software engineering teams to deliver consistent results
- Competence in SQL is a plus
- Previous experience in credit and credit reporting is a plus
What the job involves
- The Principal Product Manager will lead our rent and bills reporting product, with a focus on improving user experience, increasing activation and acquisition, building innovation in the credit building space, and maintaining stability and compliance
- Reporting to the Senior Director of Product Management, this role will be central to achieving our goal of enabling a best-in-class credit building toolkit and delivering credit building success to Self Financial’s customers
- Lead the rent and bills reporting product, with a focus on improving user experience, increasing activation and acquisition, while driving innovation in the alternative credit reporting space
- Establish shared vision across the company by building consensus on priorities leading to a short term and long term product roadmap
- Acts as payments SME on features and services, specifically how rent and bills reporting works and how it can positively impact credit scores. Communicate intricacies with Execs and colleagues
- Inform product decisions with quantitative and qualitative data on customer behavior and experimentation to prioritize your roadmap (e.g. a/b testing, survey data, usability studies)
- Help drive execution with the engineering team to prioritize competing tactical and strategic items into a backlog. Drive planning, story prioritization and product backlog grooming
- Partner with risk, compliance, marketing, engineering, design, analytics and operations teams to build software collaboratively and inclusively
- Contribute to technical design and architecture by challenging engineering to find innovative and efficient solutions. Champion product quality and improvement
- Maintain an awareness of major industry trends, competitive feature landscape and developing appropriate prioritization
Our take
Almost 50 million Americans are “credit invisible” with no credit score at all, while there are also around the same number with low credit scores. The ramifications of this are profound, as it goes on to affect mortgage and rental applications, personal loans, and even job prospects.
Self is one of many fintechs, along with the likes of Better, TomoCredit and SoFi, that are attempting to help people get easier access to loans, and in turn credit scores. The company offers consumers instalment loans and its own Visa credit card, regardless of their current credit score.
While there’s lots of competition in this particular fintech niche, Self has been scaling up rapidly over the last few years, increasing its headcount and expanding into credit reporting for rent with its acquisition of RentTrack. With its innovative approach and growing range of services, Self is positioned to continue making a meaningful impact on financial inclusion.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$50m
SERIES E
Dec 2020
$40m
SERIES D
Total funding: $127.6m
Company benefits
- Healthcare including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, FSA, HSA
- 401(k) investment plan
- Equity incentive plan
- Flexible time off
- Paid Parental Leave for primary and secondary care givers
- Wellness programs and fitness benefits
- Professional development reimbursement
- Reward and recognition program
- Hybrid work environment
Company HQ
East Cesar Chavez, Austin, TX
Leadership
James Garvey
(Founder & Member of the Board of Directors)Founded Self Financial in 2014 and served as the CEO until 2023. Previously founded GK Equity and co-founded Objective Loyalty where they served as the CTO for 5 years.
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