Self Financial is a venture-backed, high-growth FinTech company with a mission to increase economic inclusion and financial resilience by empowering people to build credit and build savings.
We're looking for people who share our passion and are driven to tackle challenges, find solutions and make the financial space better for the communities we serve.
Our team is passionate about challenging the status quo of the credit industry by providing people accessible tools to take control of their credit. Executing on our mission requires deep collaboration across our teams to ensure our products reach the people who can benefit from them the most, particularly the 100 million+ Americans who have no or low credit.
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees. To that end, we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.
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.
About the Role:
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.
What You Will Do:
- 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
What You Bring:
- 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
Base salary range: $171,000-209,000 annually. Individual pay is based on factors unique to each candidate, including skill set, experience, and other job-related reasons.
We have the compensation and benefits you expect. But there's one thing that Self Financial can offer that many companies cannot: we can positively change the world, while making a profit. We are a team of Builders, empowering our customers to build their dreams. We have a Do the Right Thing ethos in all that we do, and we hope you value that approach, too.
Our perks include:
- Company equity in the form of Stock Options
- Performance-based bonuses
- Generous employer-paid health, vision and dental insurance coverage
- Flexible vacation policy
- Educational assistance
- Free gym membership
- Casual dress code
- Team building events and activities
- Remote work arrangements/ flexible work schedule
- Paid parental leave
Self Financial requires all employees hired to successfully pass a background check.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
At this time, we are only able to consider applicants who are U.S. Citizens or Green Card Holders for employment opportunities. We appreciate your understanding.
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Self Financial is a 10-year-old credit-building platform that works to increase financial resilience through products that make building credit accessible. Products include Self's signature Credit Builder Account, secured Self Visa® Credit Card, and free rent reporting to the three major credit bureaus. Self is also the Official Credit Building App of the San
Why Work With Us
It's not every day you have the opportunity to work for a for-profit company with a strong mission that has meaningful impact on people's lives. If you're searching for a higher purpose and you're passionate about helping to improve people's financial situation, then Self is just the place.
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