Job description
ABOUT OPORTUN
Oportun (Nasdaq: OPRT) is a mission-driven fintech that puts its members’ financial goals within reach. With intelligent borrowing, savings, and budgeting capabilities, Oportun empowers members with the confidence to build a better financial future. Since inception, Oportun has provided more than $19.7 billion in responsible and affordable credit, saved its members more than $2.4 billion in interest and fees, and helped its members save an average of more than $1,800 annually. Oportun has been certified as a Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) since 2009.
WORKING AT OPORTUN
Working at Oportun means enjoying a differentiated experience of being part of a team that fosters a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where we all feel a sense of belonging and are encouraged to share our perspectives. This inclusive culture is directly connected to our organization’s performance and ability to fulfill our mission of delivering affordable credit to those left out of the financial mainstream. We celebrate and nurture our inclusive culture through our employee resource groups.
Position Overview
We are looking for a passionate, curious and creative problem solver to be a Senior Product Manager at Oportun, responsible for the Savings & Mobile App platform that supports our flagship Savings product. We envision this platform as the backbone of our app for both Savings and Lending Members, so this role will have a huge impact in defining the future of our financial health platform.
Your role will be to lead the ideation, development, launch and scaling of innovative platform capabilities and features. Every capability and feature will help improve our customers’ financial lives. If you love leading cross-functional product teams with lofty goals and high ambitions, this opportunity may be for you.
While Oportun’s worldwide HQ is in San Francisco, CA, this role is open anywhere in India. If you’re passionate about making a meaningful difference in people’s lives in partnership with a smart, driven and fun-loving team, we’re excited to meet you.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional stakeholders to craft long-term product strategy
- Scope and lead the development of new product features that will increase the financial health of our users
- Analyze data and perform user research to form and test hypotheses in the pursuit of building a deep understanding of our customers’ needs and behaviors
- Manage a high-performing cross-functional product team that includes engineering, design, data, marketing, legal, and customer support to implement and build new features
- Drive strong communication and alignment up, down and sideways within the organization
RESPONSIBILITIES
Who you are:
- You are a thought partner and a leader… you will be working with a talented group of business leaders and engineers to articulate and deliver a roadmap in support of our business strategy.
- Strong track record: 5+ years of product management experience in high-growth environments, with experience in the financial services industry (FinTech, challenger bank, etc.) highly preferred.
- Customer centric: You are passionate about improving the financial health of Oportun’s members.
- Analytical problem solver: You have experience working and delivering on complex problems. You excel in making data-informed decisions (testing and experimentation, defining metrics, data analysis).
- Collaborative: You have a track record of shipping and iterating on impactful products that required partnering with and building consensus across a wide group of cross-functional partners.
- Excellent communicator: You are a clear and concise communicator, and you have superb documentation skills.
- Execution: You’re scrappy, solution-oriented, and able to help the team push through obstacles and blockers to deliver value for our members. You are comfortable navigating through ambiguous problem spaces in pursuit of clarity and concrete outcomes.
- Bonus Points: You have experience launching products within complex legal and regulatory frameworks such as Finance, experience with SQL, and experience working with a multi-national workforce.
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