Senior Product Manager (Lending) - Engine by Starling

At Engine by Starling, we are on a mission to find and work with leading banks all around the world who have the ambition to build rapid growth businesses, on our technology.

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Lending team. As a Senior Product Manager, you will be responsible for owning a best-in-class lending product, scoping out breakthrough features, and owning the end-to-end delivery of your sub-domain(s) in close alignment with the Product and Engineering domain leaders.

Your work will span product strategy, client-facing requirements gathering & solution design, and product ownership in an Engineering context. You’ll have a technical mindset and enjoy working collaboratively with Engineering leadership to build scalable products for different market contexts.

Responsibilities:

• Take ownership of a best-in-class lending product by scoping out breakthrough features, and owning the end-to-end delivery of your sub-domain(s) in close alignment with the Product and Engineering domain leaders.
• Own the Roadmap, vision and strategy for your sub-domain, contributing to the overall lending roadmap.
• Work cross-functionally with engineers, designers, document writers, and QA to drive the design and delivery of improvements to the product that align with the vision of the business.
• Confidently and independently prioritise incoming tasks and clearly communicate ‘the what’ and ‘the why’ of each decision to both internal and external stakeholders.
• Manage deadlines and be responsible for proactively raising delivery risks that may impact our client projects.
• Develop a close relationship with our Delivery and Customer Success teams, taking the lead on assessing feature requests and client requirements as a key input into overall feature and roadmap definition.
• Work closely with our Business Development team by helping the team understand Engine’s capabilities in your domain and joining early-stage Sales conversations as an SME.
• Be the champion of the feature, telling different teams and clients about the product, and adapting your style of communication and materials to different stakeholders.
• Manage difficult conversations with senior stakeholders both internally and externally, balancing strategic direction and pragmatic decision making.

Requirements:

• Proven product experience: You have been a Product Manager or Product Owner with demonstrated experience building and shipping complex and impactful products.
• Lending product track record: You’ve built or significantly improved lending products before and are excited to own an ambitious sub-domain within Engine’s lending.
• Eager Learner: You have an appetite for learning, listening, and growing within an organisation that is constantly expanding.
• FinTech/Banking Exposure: Prior experience or a strong baseline understanding of FinTech, or a regulated banking/lending environment.
• Technical Foundation: A product or engineering background, technical experience, or deep technical curiosity.
• Clear Communication & Stakeholder Management: You can clearly explain the "what", "how", and "why" behind the product backlog to your engineering and design triad.

Benefits:

• 33 days holiday (including public holidays).
• An extra day’s holiday for your birthday.
• Annual leave is increased with length of service.
• 16 hours paid volunteering time a year.
• Salary sacrifice, company enhanced pension scheme.
• Life insurance at 4x your salary & group income protection.
• Private Medical Insurance with VitalityHealth.
• Generous family-friendly policies.
• Incentives refer a friend scheme.
• Perkbox membership.