Director of Product Management (Remote optional)
The Petal Mission
Petal’s mission is to expand access to opportunity, by making responsible, modern financial services available to everyone. Founded in 2016, Petal provides technology-enabled credit cards to consumers who are historically underserved by mainstream providers.
Petal pioneered automated cash flow underwriting, a transformative new approach to assessing consumer creditworthiness with the potential to expand access to tens of millions of U.S. consumers without credit history, or for whom traditional credit scores do not tell the whole story. Petal pairs this groundbreaking, data-driven underwriting technology with a mobile-first, digitally native product experience designed to help users manage and build credit responsibly. For Petal, it’s a mission as much as it is a business—with a goal to reimagine finance for the next generation of consumers.
At Petal, we're looking for people with kindness, positivity, and integrity. You're encouraged to apply even if your experience doesn't precisely match the job description. Your skills and potential will stand out—and set you apart—especially if your career has taken some extraordinary twists and turns. At Petal, we welcome diverse perspectives from people who think rigorously and aren't afraid to challenge assumptions.
The Director of Product Management
This Director of Product Management role will be leading the Member Experience team that makes our core product so empowering. You’ll be mentoring and managing the incredible PMs working on Payments, Credit Building and Spending to achieve our product vision of a better credit offering.
Petal gives our members the tools that allow them to make smart choices that fit their personal finances and empower them with a convenient way to pay for their needs. Take a look at our innovative Leap feature to get a sense of how we’re empowering our members in new ways.
Key responsibilities:
- Create, articulate, evangelize and refine the product roadmap for the Member Experience area of Petal’s product. You’ll oversee the shaping and maintaining of our roadmap for the best credit card offering.
- Manage and mentor a team of seriously amazing PMs with unlimited potential. One of the most important aspects of this role is to advise your direct reports on how to be the best PMs they can be. You’ll be a sounding board and coach to help them think through the various challenges they face.
- Get your hands dirty digging into challenging problems to ship innovative solutions. As a player-coach, you’ll model great PMing skills as you deliver product changes with a feature team. To innovate in such a complex field, you’ll need to immerse yourself in the problem space to find new solutions.
- Partner closely with other teams across Petal. Our company culture values teamwork and collaboration and this role exemplifies that. You’ll work with openness and transparency to be a trusted partner to a large number of other teams -- including Marketing, Risk and Operations.
Characteristics of a successful candidate:
- 7+ years of experience in Product Management
- 3+ years of experience managing or mentoring other PMs
- A history of shipping innovative products that delight users
- Excited about fintech!
Nice-to-haves:
- Software engineering experience or Computer Science degree is a plus. You understand technical tradeoffs and are a strong partner to engineers.
- Experience shipping innovative consumer-facing user interfaces is a plus. You’ve ideally led product development efforts on some pretty awesome apps that make complicated tasks easy for users.
We are an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to building a team culture that celebrates diversity and inclusion. We’re proud to be different, together.
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