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Role Summary:
A highly skilled and experienced Staff Product Manager leads the development and enhancement of personalized and data driven products in the credit cards, lending, and wealth management verticals. The ideal candidate will have a deep understanding of the fintech landscape, particularly in managing products related to financial services, consumer credit, and investment products. This role is strategic and cross-functional, requiring leadership across product development, business strategy, and customer experience.
You are a strategic member of the team who has a deep understanding of consumer insights and can use these insights to drive product innovation and personalization for our consumers. You are a strong collaborator who enjoys working with multiple stakeholders to ensure seamless execution of product initiatives. You excel at market analysis, project management and performance monitoring to ensure that you are delivering strong business results. You are a strong communicator and know how to articulate business objectives and consumer needs to peers at all levels.
This role reports to the VP, Data & Analytics.
Where you can make an impact:
- Own the product roadmap for emerging growth projects that leverage data and partner integrations to deliver personalized credit cards, lending, and wealth management solutions, aligning with the overall company vision.
- Define and drive the strategy to build competitive and innovative financial products that address customer needs in credit, lending and wealth management.
- Conduct market analysis and competitive research to identify trends, customer pain points, and opportunities for product growth.
- Ensure that products are relevant and valuable to the target audience with a deep understanding of the financial profiles, goals, and challenges of expected consumers to drive product innovation and personalization.
- Own product integrations with third party partners such as credit bureaus and NerdWallet clients.
- Seamlessly execute on roadmaps for successful product launches and updates by partnering with data, engineering, marketing, and editorial teams to create and implement product roadmaps.
- Lead product development projects from concept to launch, including defining requirements, setting timelines, and coordinating with stakeholders.
- Live in the numbers: monitor and analyze product performance metrics, implement A/B tests and other optimization strategies to improve user engagement and c