Description
SoFi is looking for a Principal Product Manager to lead one of its most strategic product areas.
As a senior individual contributor and product leader, you will set the vision, define strategy, and drive execution on complex, high-impact initiatives that shape how SoFi's members borrow, save, spend, invest, and protect their money.
This role is inherently cross-functional, working closely with engineering, design, data science, marketing, operations, finance, risk, legal, compliance, and executive leadership to set strategy, prioritize features, secure resources, and execute.
Key responsibilities include:
- Owning and evolving the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for your product area
- Breaking vision into phases, prioritizing, and driving backlogs for launch with dedicated engineering teams
- Driving platform and product strategy focused on scalability, reliability, security, and regulatory compliance
- Partnering with engineering to make critical architectural decisions and guide long-term investments
- Engaging with risk, compliance, legal, and security teams to align product capabilities with regulatory requirements
- Defining success metrics and rigorously measuring performance, member impact, and business outcomes
- Leading complex build-vs-buy evaluations, including vendor assessments and technology trade-offs
- Leading experiments to validate hypotheses and measure impact on key outcomes like member outcomes, engagement, and revenue
- Influencing broader company strategy, mentoring other product managers, and raising the bar for product craft across the organization
- Communicating the vision, strategy, execution plan, and customer impact to all stakeholders, including the highest levels of leadership in the company
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree or higher, ideally in a technical, finance, or quantitative field
- 8+ years of product management experience
- Proven track record leading technically complex or highly strategic products at scale
- Deep technical fluency and ability to collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and architects on trade-offs and design decisions
- Demonstrated ability to balance long-term platform and product investments with near-term delivery needs
- Strong cross-functional leadership skills, particularly with engineering, design, data science, security, compliance, legal, and analytics
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complexity for diverse stakeholders and present to C-level leadership
- Experience owning end-to-end product delivery and P&L or key business outcomes
- Comfort navigating ambiguity, trade-offs, and evolving constraints in a fast-paced environment
Nice to have:
- MBA or advanced degree in a technical, business, or quantitative field
- Experience in fintech, financial services, payments, or other highly regulated industries
- Experience with data-driven, personalized, or AI-powered consumer products
- Experience building and mentoring high-performing product teams
- Passion for helping members achieve financial independence and get their money right
The base pay range for this role varies based on individual factors such as experience, skills, and location.