Senior Lead Product Manager

• Shape business vision and requirements, and lead product design and implementation to address complex business and technical needs
• Oversee overall product management and strategic focus for the most technical, complex, and diverse products and services within the Auto space
• Lead the strategy and resolution of complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth understanding of potential synergies, opportunities companywide
• Deliver solutions that are long-term, large scale, and require consideration of global market dynamics, trends, regulatory impact, and risk management
• Provide vision, direction and expertise to leadership on implementing innovative and significant business solutions that are strategically focused for diverse product lines
• Articulate product vision, define scope, prioritize backlog, establish goals, and provide direction for teams to design, develop, and deliver technology and processes for updating, upgrading technologies and vendor relationships
• Drive product discovery, including customer insights through primary and secondary research, business analytics, competitive dynamics, technology trends, macroeconomic factors, and regulatory requirements
• Develop decision-making frameworks that foster productive debate and drive timely, informed outcomes
• Formulate product positioning, and lead the articulation of product value propositions to customers and stakeholders to ensure that their needs are met and understood
• Discover vision of customer experience in partnership with in-house or third-party design resources, including developing customer journey maps, prototypes, and UI/UX wireframes
• Drive product strategy and develop initiative roadmaps for the products you own and manage
• Develop and drive use of metrics and general guidelines and ensure usage
• Track and report on performance metrics and key performance indicators, leading to success on the overarching objectives and key results
• Interact directly with vendors and support the business in conducting build-vs-buy analysis
• Manage operational implementation in partnership with change management, sales, and operations teams
• Collaborate and consult with product managers, stakeholders, analysts, and multiple level managers
• Engage with leaders, stakeholders, subject matter experts, scrum masters, project managers and delivery team companywide
• Serve as an adept advisor to leadership

7+ years of Product Management, product development, strategic planning, process management, change delivery, or agile product owner experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education

• Experience in Auto Finance, preferably in underwriting or funding
• Experience in analysis of credit bureau information
• Prior experience in loan originations, ideally within the indirect auto lending space
• Experience managing product backlogs, defining epics and features, and leading cross-functional discovery and delivery efforts
• Experience working in Agile product management methodologies
• Strong analytical skills with experience in data/quantitative analysis, using data and prototyping to explore complex problems, evaluate solutions, and inform product decisions
• Familiarity with cost-benefit analysis, profit and loss, and how product decisions impact business outcomes
• Experience working with compliance, legal, risk, and executive leadership to align on product vision and ensure regulatory soundness
• Exceptional problem solving skills with the ability to lead end to end product strategy, vision, and framework to flawless execution
• Experience with microservice-based architecture, including microservices, domain-driven design, and micro front-end frameworks

• Hybrid work schedule
• Travel up to 10% of the time