Sr Product Manager, Origination

About the position

LendingClub is one of America's largest providers of unsecured personal loans, originating more than $70 billion in loans to our over 4 million high-FICO, high-income members and helping them save millions on their cost of credit. As part of our flagship Personal Loans product team, we are looking for a strong, dynamic product leader to drive the execution of origination product strategy in close collaboration with business stakeholders. You will be responsible for driving initiatives from concept to launch partnering with engineering, design, and research.

Responsibilities

• Lead product strategy for a part of the origination experience, driving customer experience, growth, and operational efficiency
• Develop an ROI-prioritized roadmap, and lead execution from concept, through launch, to analysis, optimization, and scaling
• Collaborate with business stakeholders and technology teams to capture business requirements and develop user stories to build new/ optimize existing products
• Manage and prioritize backlog of user stories with clear understandings of tradeoffs and impacts
• Evaluate current state customer journey for optimization opportunity and develop use cases and future state user experiences
• Define features, use cases, acceptance criteria, user flows, and other artifacts to develop product requirements
• Identify third party integrations to help develop seamless customer experiences and implement relevant solutions
• Find ways to raise the bar for your product and your team, insisting on the highest standards of quality for the products you own and deliver

Requirements

• 7+ years' experience in product management in financial services, banking or fintech space preferable
• Experience in lending and deep understanding of loan origination, underwriting and verification process is a plus
• Strong curiosity and growth mindset with the ability to break down a problem, deeply think about potential solutions, and execute on a solution in a structured and an efficient way
• Proven experience delivering results and working with diverse, high-performing teams
• Outstanding communication and stakeholder management skills
• Deep customer empathy and ability to problem solve for customer needs and business landscape
• Excellent analytical thinking and navigating through ambiguity
• Proficient in pulling and analyzing data, putting together expected outcomes for features, and running A/B tests
• Solid understanding of the market, supporting disciplines, and the core competencies of product management
• Experience leading and/or driving strategic product collaboration in a best-in-class digital consumer product company
• Self-starter and able to work with minimal direction

Benefits

• Medical, dental and vision plans for employees and their families
• 401(k) match
• Health and wellness programs
• Flexible time off policies for salaried employees
• Up to 16 weeks paid parental leave
• Bonus based on company performance, employee performance and eligible earnings
• Equity options