Who is Plenti?
Plenti is a fintech lender, providing faster, fairer loans by leveraging its smart technology. Plenti is a dynamic and innovative business that is growing strongly. By continuing to deliver better customer experiences, Plenti is taking market share from incumbent players in the personal lending, renewable energy, and automotive finance markets.
We are a fast moving and ambitious business that seeks to recruit smart and capable people, who can take ownership of their role to help the business thrive. With over 200 people based in Australia, Plenti is small enough so everyone can make a difference in their role, but we have very big ambitions as a team, as we go about building Australia’s best lender.
Plenti is a founder led business that launched in 2014 and is now listed on the ASX, with annual revenue of over $200 million and a loan portfolio of over $2 billion.
Job Summary
The Head of Product leads strategic initiatives to deliver Plenti’s strategic roadmap and operational goals. This role requires strategic vision, operational excellence, and the ability to inspire and grow a high-performing product team. You will oversee product development, resolve bottlenecks, and ensure alignment across the organisation to achieve Plenti’s objectives.
Key Responsibilities:
1. Product Strategy and Vision
• Develop and clearly communicate a forward-thinking product strategy that supports Plenti’s growth and profitability.
• Stay ahead of market trends and customer needs, and introduce innovative solutions in technology, operations, and customer experiences.
• Introduce and evaluate strategic initiatives by exploring scope, effort and measurable impact towards Plenti’s strategic goals.
2. Product Team Leadership
• Coach, mentor, and grow a high-performing product management team.
• Own and continuously improve Plenti’s product management processes.
• Encourage a data-driven culture within the product team, using analytics to guide innovation and improvement.
• Cultivate a culture of action, innovation, ownership, and collaboration
3. Cross-Functional Leadership
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, customer experience, and commercial teams to execute product initiatives seamlessly.
• Work with commercial, sales, marketing, and credit risk teams to develop compelling product offerings.
• Lead impactful change across all departments, supporting a culture of continuous improvement.
4. Delivery
• Maintain a comprehensive view of our product suite to ensure each initiative delivers significant impact across all channels.
• Identify and resolve obstacles that hinder progress on key product initiatives.
• Serve as a problem-solver for cross-functional teams, keeping projects on track.
5. Decision-Making and Prioritisation
• Own the product roadmap, making informed trade-offs to balance short-term needs with long-term goals.
• Regularly evaluate initiatives to ensure their prioritisation aligns with their intended measures of success.
• Ensure teams are properly structured and resourced to deliver the product roadmap and support daily operations.
6. Alignment and Communication
• Represent the product team as part of Plenti’s leadership group.
• Act as the central communication hub for product strategy and initiatives.
• Utilise data to communicate the success and progress of product initiatives to stakeholders, ensuring alignment and transparency.
• Ensure departmental and stakeholder alignment to foster clarity and cohesion.
Key Qualifications
• Extensive experience in product management with team leadership and strategic planning.
• Proven success in developing and executing long-term product roadmaps.
• Strong ability to lead, hire, inspire, and mentor high-performing teams.
• Excellent decision-making skills in high-growth environments.
• Proven track record of fostering effective cross-functional collaboration.
• Expertise in managing complex, multi-channel products across diverse platforms.
What's life like at Plenti?
Working at Plenti means joining a team that is high-performing, diverse, customer-focused and collaborative. It’s a place where everyone can “make it happen” and share in the results and success. If being in a dynamic industry as part of a market-leading fintech sounds like you, then join to help us reshape Australia’s financial eco-system for the good.
In return, you will enjoy a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship to take your career further. We offer flexible working and volunteer and study leave to develop your skills. We also have monthly social events, office snacks, company Townhalls and D&I initiatives and events to help you connect with your colleagues.
Plenti is committed to a diverse and inclusive workforce.
We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and people with disabilities. When you apply, let us know of any reasonable adjustments you may need during the interview process so we can accommodate you.
What We Do
Plenti is building Australia's best lender.
Our smart technology offers faster and fairer car, renewable energy and personal loans to help borrowers bring their big ideas to life. We've also helped more than 27,000 investors earn strong, stable returns by investing in loans to creditworthy Australians.
We've originated more than $3.5 billion in loans since establishment, with our strong growth supported by diversified distribution channels and funding, and underpinned by our exceptional credit performance and continual innovation.
We've won more than 30 awards for our outstanding loan products, and have been recognised in the Deloitte Technology Fast50, Deloitte Asia Pacific Technology Fast 500, AFR Fast 100, and the FT High-Growth Companies Asia Pacific.
Plenti listed on the ASX in September 2020
