Associate Product Manager (Remote)

Remote

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.

The Role

As an Associate Product Manager at Self you will dig deep into the details of a particular product line and become a subject matter expert that Stakeholders rely on. You will work closely with the Product Manager and Engineering Manager to understand business requirements, break these down into component parts, and clearly define work for the Delivery Team. You will drive projects to completion, load balancing new features, bug fixes and paying down technical debt as you deliver tangible results.

What You Will Do

• Develop a deep understanding of your Product domain, meeting regularly with Stakeholders to understand their needs and pain points
• Provide qualitative and quantitative input to the prioritization and OKR setting process
• Assist the Product Manager in developing Product Requirement Documents 
• Help the Delivery Team translate Business Requirements into Technical Solution Documents
• Set project milestones and target due dates
• Ensure successful execution of projects, answering questions and unblocking team members as issues arise
• Communicate regular updates to Stakeholders, including project scope changes
• Collaborate with the Product Manager and Lead Engineer to write clear tickets, ensure that all in-progress and upcoming work is captured in the Project Management tool (Jira), and assist the Product Manager in story prioritization and backlog grooming
• Inform product decisions with quantitative and qualitative data on customer behavior and experimentation to prioritize your roadmap
• Partner with risk, compliance, marketing, engineering, design, analytics and operations teams to formulate solutions and stories collaboratively and inclusively
• Generate internal and external documentation for your Product
• Ensure delivered work is understood by all stakeholders by conducting formal release reviews and training frontline staff where appropriate
• Follow written risk and compliance policies and procedures for business activities

What you Bring

• 2+ years as a Product Owner, Business Analyst, Associate Product Manager, Technical Program Manager, or equivalent experience developing solutions, processes, integrations, economics at a high-growth tech company
• Familiarity with modern web technologies
• Familiarity with Jira, Asana, or other Project Management tools
• Excellent communication skills
• Comfort with ambiguity and self-direction
• Prior experience in Fintech a plus

Benefits and Perks:

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 RSUs
• Quarterly 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.