Senior Product Manager, Application

Job Title: Senior Product Manager, Application

Reports To: VP, Lending

FLSA Status: Exempt

Department: Business Development

JOB SUMMARY: Responsible for the customer-facing application flow, from initial entry through offer presentation, authentication, funding, and post-offer steps, ensuring a seamless, intuitive, and high-converting experience. The primary objective of this role is to maximize application completion and minimize drop-offs across the funnel.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Application Experience Ownership

• Own the product roadmap for the loan application experience, including:

o Application page flows and orchestration

o Offer presentation and selection

o ACH setup and repayment configuration

o Contract review and signing

o Funding experience and confirmations

• Drive cohesive, intuitive application journeys across new, returning, and refinance customers.

Experimentation & Conversion Optimization

• Lead A/B testing and experimentation across application flows, page sequencing, copy, form fields, and UX patterns.

• Identify drop-offs and friction points in the application funnel and drive initiatives to improve completion and funding rates.

• Partner with design and engineering to rapidly iterate on hypotheses and measure impact.

Authentication & Platform Integrations

• Own authentication experiences within the application flow.

• Partner with growth and marketing teams to support integration with affiliate and partner marketing platforms, ensuring clean attribution and optimized conversion.

• Support differentiated flows for returning customers and refinance journeys.

Specialized Application Flows

• Own application capabilities for:

o Direct Debt Payoff experiences

o Returning customer and refinance application flows

o Funding orchestration and downstream handoffs

• Ensure edge cases and operational considerations are well-defined and handled gracefully.

Execution & Delivery

• Write clear and detailed product requirements and collaborate closely with engineering on solution design.

• Manage sprint priorities and backlog for application-related work.

• Perform product UAT testing and ensure high-quality launches.

• Serve as the primary point of contact for application-related initiatives across engineering, design, marketing, and operations.

Measurement & KPIs

• Define, track, and optimize core application KPIs, including:

o Application completion rate

o Step-level drop-off rates across the funnel

• Establish clear success metrics for experiments and new features and ensure rigorous post-launch analysis.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the minimum knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Product Management, Computer Science, or a related field preferred; equivalent experience accepted.

• 5–8 years of product management experience, preferably in fintech, lending, financial services, or high-volume consumer-facing digital products.

• Demonstrated experience owning multi-step, high-volume consumer application flows.

• Strong background in A/B testing, experimentation, and conversion optimization.

• Experience working closely with design and engineering on complex UX and orchestration problems.

• Experience integrating with affiliate or partner marketing platforms is a plus.

• Strong analytical skills with hands-on experience using data to drive prioritization and decisions.

• Proficiency with SQL or similar data querying tools (preferred).

• Experience working in an agile product development environment.

COMPETENCIES:

• Customer-Centric Mindset: Designs experiences that minimize friction and maximize ease of use. Advocates for intuitive, seamless application journeys across all customer types.

• Analytical & Data-Driven Decision-Making: Skilled in funnel analysis, A/B testing, experimentation, and using data to drive prioritization, measure success, and identify friction points.

• Communications: Exhibits good listening and comprehension; Expresses ideas and thoughts in written form; Expresses ideas and thoughts verbally; Keeps others adequately informed; Selects and uses appropriate communication methods.

• Execution & Delivery Excellence: Consistently drives projects from concept through launch with high quality. Writes clear requirements, manages backlog and sprints, and ensures smooth cross-functional execution.

• Cross-Functional Collaboration & Influence: Contributes to building a positive team spirit; Exhibits objectivity and openness to others' views. Aligns stakeholders, resolves competing priorities, and drives decisions without formal authority.

• Technical Acumen & UX Fluency: Understands application flows, authentication, integrations, and UX best practices. Can translate complex technical details into user-focused product solutions.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, walk, reach, and sit for a minimum of 8 hours with or without reasonable accommodation. The employee is required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects and/or tools. The employee is required to talk or hear with or without reasonable accommodation and must sometimes lift and move up to 10 pounds.

WORK ENVIRONMENT
While performing the logistics duties of this job, the employee is frequently exposed to moderate noises such as computers, printers, and other light traffic noise in an office setting.

This role is in-office. Remote work may be performed from a pre-approved location, as arranged, and scheduled by team management and approved by department leadership.

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change or be supplemented at any time with or without notice.

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