Product Manager - Originations Growth

Do you want to help a rapidly ascending FinTech company drive its next phase of growth? If so, Avant is looking for you. We’re building a best-in-class product organization, and there’s a lot of opportunity to grow your skills and your career here. Come join us!

Avant is looking for a Product Manager (PM) to support our Originations Growth Pod. Our originations platform is at the heart of everything we do to achieve growth for both loan and credit card. The Originations Growth Product Manager will partner with our Engineering team to deliver features to achieve our key business commitments for application funnel efficiency. They will be responsible for product planning and execution throughout the Product Life Cycle, including gathering and prioritizing product and customer requirements, and working closely with engineering to ensure business and customer satisfaction goals are met to drive delivery and quality standards. 

The PM team’s charter is to help bring the business vision and strategy to life. As a PM you will be focused on solutioning business needs and leading delivery with engineering.

What you will do at Avant:

• Manage the originations growth platform product intake process.

• Own the platform stability and features, analyzing customer needs and pain points to translate them into product ideas.

• Understand and empathize with customers and come up with user personas to build deep understanding to represent the customer’s voice and solve for their needs throughout the product development processes.

• Work with business stakeholders and originations engineering partners to come up with a roadmap and help prioritize the roadmap by making key tradeoff decisions.

• Carry out impact assessment for roadmap items, flag and address any key risks, issues and dependencies.

• Work with internal teams to execute on the roadmap.

• Translate product strategy into detailed business and user requirements.

• Actively prioritize product backlog and coordinate planning to build and enhance our verifications platform.

• Create engineering requests with detailed technical requirements and clearly stage success criteria for testing and product acceptance.

• Assess launched products and tools to measure their outcome against the planned objectives and key results.

• Analyze metrics and data, identify trends and issues and come up with hypothesis recommendations and carry out experiments.

• Answer questions related to the product and its capabilities.

• Be at the forefront of the creation and maintenance of product documentation.

• Potential for people management. 

Why you are a fit for Avant: 

• Bachelor’s or Master's Degree in business, computer science, data science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math). MBA is a plus. 

• Ideally 5-7+ years of experience working with technology products with at least 5 years in Product Management working in fintech or similar industry

• High proficiency in SQL and familiarity with Python

• Demonstrated experience in defining a product strategy, creating a delivery plan, executing on that plan and learning from iterating on the plan to achieve the desired outcomes

• High customer empathy 

• Agile development in a production environment at a startup or tech organization

• Experience collaborating with engineers and designers to understand the technical scope of products and features

• Strong communication skills and ability to interface with multiple stakeholders across the organization, with an eye towards building cross-functional collaboration and support

• You are excited about building the business of Avant as a cohesive whole, not just building features or products in isolation

• Strong interpersonal skills, communication skills, analytical skills, combined with intellectual curiosity, and a desire and ability to "get sh!t done!"

• People management experience is a plus. 

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We believe that a diverse set of backgrounds and experiences helps us create the most innovative solutions for our customers. We invite you to apply to our positions even if you do not meet 100% of the qualifications listed in the description. If you’re passionate about our mission and aligned to our values, we hope you’ll come contribute to our awesome culture.

Why Avant is the place for you:

At Avant, we believe our values make a difference:

Authenticity. We show up to work as our whole selves and make sure others can too.

Collaboration. We can only succeed when we do so as a team.

Problem-Solving. The harder the problem, the more satisfying the solution.

Customer. We are all owners of the customer experience.

Initiative. Plan. Adapt. Get Sh!t Done.

We believe that great ideas come from anyone and anywhere, that everyone is an owner who drives change, and that we have more fun when we work together. We're problem solvers who love collaborating with intelligent and highly-motivated people to reshape the face of digital banking. Avant offers terrific perks and benefits, fun social events with employees who actually like hanging out together, and a flexible growth environment where trying your hand at new projects and being the active owner of your career path is encouraged and supported.

Some of our benefits include:

• Choice of great Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plan options

• 401(k) Match

• Unlimited Paid Time Off

• Flexible Work Environment

• Generous Paid Parental Leave

• Lunch Allowance (Fooda) and In-office Snacks

• WFH Stipends for our Remote Employees

• Access to LinkedIn Learning for Professional Development

• No Meeting Wednesdays - (a.k.a. planned time to Get Sh!t Done)

• Summer Fridays

• Fun In-Office and Virtual Social Events

• And who doesn’t love the swag

This position may require you to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19. If required, you'll be asked to provide proof that you’re fully vaccinated upon your start date or before working in or visiting our Chicago office. You’re considered fully vaccinated two weeks after you receive the second dose of a two-dose vaccine series (e.g., Pfizer or Moderna) or two weeks after a single-dose vaccine (e.g., Johnson & Johnson/Janssen). Failure to provide proof of vaccination may result in termination. Subject to applicable law and requests for accommodation.