Senior Product Manager - Banking - job 1 of 2

About the team

Valon's Product team is a growing, fast-paced team with a goal of building a mortgage servicing platform that both empowers mortgage servicing agents to focus on providing exceptional services and also delivers a phenomenally transparent product experience to homeowners. As a senior product manager at Valon, you will own a business area within the product and lead the creation and execution of the product strategy. Our product is at the unique stage where you'll have the opportunity to build multiple 0 to1 features, but also scale and iterate on existing features and product experiences. You'll be working closely with our Group PM and world-class engineering team to create a product that delivers value to homeowners, mortgage servicing agents, and mortgage lenders.

Responsibilities

• Define, own, and deliver business-level objectives and product strategy for our banking infrastructure based on a deep understanding of customer needs, the product, and industry trends.
• Productize and lead new product initiatives in our money movement business.
• Tackle challenging, complex problems that play a central role in how our ecosystem ingests, moves, reconciles, disperses funds across our thousands of customers and clients and partners.
• Deliver/land the right product at the right time, and all that entails.
• Synthesize quantitative data analysis with qualitative user research results to make informed product decisions
• Apply strategic and critical thinking to identify new opportunities that will improve margin, lead to business growth and satisfy customer needs
• Define simple, generalizable solutions to ambiguous problems and outline the solutions via clear and executable product requirements
• Work cross-functionally with stakeholders across Business Operations Engineering, Product Design, Product Operations, Compliance, and Servicing to ideate, develop and, launch new products and features

Ideal Background

• To be considered for this role, you should have a minimum of 4+ years of experience delivering highly successful and innovative enterprise or consumer products, with a strong preference for finance-related products.
• For well-qualified candidates, Valon is open to considering them for a staff level position, which would likely involve taking on additional responsibilities and having a more senior role within the product team.
• You are technical, and understand what it takes to build enterprise-grade software.
• You have a proven track record of building data-driven products at scale (serving millions of customers) through strong partnerships with engineering.
• You can influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority.
• Highly effective written communication skills, presentation techniques, meeting management, and team building skills.
• You feel fulfilled by the challenge of reevaluating existing processes and discovering ways to maximize their efficiency
• You thrive in ambiguity, you can iterate and deliver products quickly
• You value speed over perfection

Benefits

What we can offer:

• Compensation: a competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity and our performance bonus program and 401k plan
• Health & well-being: we'll invest in your physical and mental well-being with comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits, One medical membership, and Talkspace to provide mental health support
• Food & meals: in-office snacks and drinks, and $400 monthly stipend towards your lunches or groceries
• Commuter benefits: We offer pre-tax deductions for public transportation, rideshare services, and parking expenses to make your commute more affordable and convenient.
• Grow together: Company wide orientation for you to successfully onboard and other learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback
• Play together: quarterly budgets for team and company outings. Use it for team swag, cooking classes or team dinners!
• Generous time off: flexible paid time off, sick days, and 11 company holidays
• Baby bonding time! 3 months off for birthing parents and 2 months off for non-birthing parents - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition