Staff Product Manager - Platform
About the Company
Valon’s mission is to empower every homeowner. We believe the journey of home ownership starts when you get your keys, but lasts far beyond. We’re creating a world where home ownership comes with ease, security, and financial know-how. Our growing team of engineers, operators, product enthusiasts, and experienced servicing professionals are leveraging technology to fundamentally improve the homeownership experience. Through mortgage servicing—the process of paying off one’s mortgage—Valon is taking the first step in transforming the industry one homeowner, and lender, at a time.
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 Staff Product Manager of the Platform team, you will own and drive forward Valon’s ability to scale revenue by adding homeowner loans, improve quality and developer productivity, and enable all teams through shared services, frontend frameworks and data governance. While delivering on greater scale and faster engineering velocity, your team also enables all other Valon teams to rapidly innovate and build deep domain experiences on top of the platform. You’ll be working closely with our world-class engineering team to design, build and scale a platform that transforms complicated mortgage regulation into intuitive, seamless user experiences.
Responsibilities
- Define, own, and deliver business-level objectives and product strategy for the Platform team
- Deeply, deeply, deeply understands the internal/external users and personas, how they use the product, and their pain points
- Drive efficiency and automation for Valon’s engineering teams
- Enable and drive rapid innovation and performance of Valon’s product area teams with easy-to-use shared services, design system and web frameworks
- Work cross-functionally with stakeholders and, launch new products and features
- Synthesize quantitative data analysis with qualitative user research results to make informed product decisions
- Define simple, generalizable technical solutions to ambiguous problems and outline the solutions via clear and executable product requirements
- Communicate with stakeholders to understand their needs and perspectives
Ideal Background
- 6+ years of product management experience in technical, complex product portfolio.
- You have a track record of working closely with strong technical architects to build easy-to-use infrastructure that enables teams to innovate quickly
- You are technical, and understand what it takes to build enterprise-grade software
- You have prioritized and supported the work of multiple products for internal and external stakeholders
- You can influence multiple stakeholders without direct authority.
- You thrive in ambiguity, you can iterate and deliver products quickly to achieve business goals and technical success
- Worked with several external vendors to enable integrations via APIs
Benefits
- Base Compensation Band: $190,000 - 228,000
- Compensation; competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity and our performance bonus program
- 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 & meal allowance; in-office snacks, drinks, Tuesday dinners, and $400 monthly stipend towards your lunches or groceries
- Grow together; learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback.
- Equipment; we’ll provide you with the equipment you need to be successful and a one-time $200 stipend for your initial desk setup
- Generous time off; paid time off, uncapped 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
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Valon is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. Valon makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.
