Description
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 are looking for a Senior Product Manager to join our Lending team. As a Senior Product Manager, you will be pivotal in making sure we understand client needs and build the right products.
Your work will span product strategy, client-facing requirements gathering & solution design, and product ownership in an Engineering context. You will work closely with the Business Development, Customer Success, and Engineering functions to design solutions that meet client needs and drive our product strategy.
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 prioritize 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 organization 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