Product Manager

Stride Funding is a venture-backed, mission-driven start-up that is transforming access to alternative and higher education by offering outcomes-driven funding products (e.g. income share agreements, deferred tuition agreements, payment plans, etc.). Stride believes in the power of education to fuel economic mobility, and also recognizes the limitations of society's current approach to funding education. At Stride, we seek to increase educational access by leveraging alternative data sets, innovative modeling techniques, and school-supported funding to offer outcomes-driven funding products on the basis of students' future career trajectories, rather than their historical family credit profile. You can play a role in creating meaningful change for our customers, community, and company every day by doing work you truly love, while surrounded by a team that shares your passion! We look forward to hearing from you.

The ideal candidate is a generalist product manager looking to push their creative & technical skills in a fintech startup environment who is excited about making an impact transforming access to higher education in an inclusive fashion.

In this role you will be a “product owner”, architecting and developing intentional and contemporary products for Stride members. As a Product Manager you will drive key initiatives that ensure a safe, secure, and personalized experience for our members, partner institutions and internal stakeholders. You will work on highly visible projects across areas such as online user experience, financial data connection and personalization. You will work with engineering, data science, compliance, marketing, and other cross-functional teams to develop partnership strategies that drive the growth of our products and businesses. This position should be comfortable handling multiple projects simultaneously while meeting deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Play the critical role of bridging the technical and business worlds to deliver product features and enhancements that delight our customers and drive our business forward
• Build disruptive innovative solutions in a customer-centric environment
• Create and evangelize a product vision and own a multi-year product roadmap
• Develop specifications for epics and stories including high-fidelity wireframes, specifications for functionality, persona development, API interfaces and more
• Prioritize and drive backlogs for launch with your dedicated engineering teamsShip features continually
• Own instrumentation and data for your products to drive deep understanding, innovation and product plans
• Improve customer feedback pathways, NPS score, and product iteration cycles
• Lead in a fast-paced agile environment
• Experiment constantly to drive customer learnings and customer impact

Preferred Qualifications

• Work cross-functionally with stakeholders across marketing, sales, operations, legal, compliance, capital markets, and executive management to translate customer needs into a product
• Agile (Scrum) work experience
• Superior communication skills, written and verbal
• Experience presenting to C-level leadership
• Experience delivering quality software that solves business and user needs
• Data-driven approach and excellent analytical skills
• Ability to work with remote teams
• 3+ years in product management
• Experience owning designs and design iterations
• Experience with hypothesis-based product experimentation
• Experience speaking to actual users, empathizing with them and gathering insights, and translating those insights into meaningful product enhancements
• Experience in the Fintech spaceComfort with: Figma, GitHub, Jira, Postman, LogRocket