What are the responsibilities and job description for the Product Manager - Originations Growth position at Avant?
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'll 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're a fit for Avant :
This role is based on our downtown Chicago Office, located in the Merchandise Mart. We highly value collaboration and our hybrid schedule (M, T, Th in-office) enables flexibility to balance work and individual priorities.
Compensation Range :
The base salary range for this job is USD $95,000 - USD $135,000 / Year
Employees new to Avant typically come in below the midpoint of the pay range. The compensation range is based on the level outlined in the job posting, and compensation decisions are dependent on each applicant's experience, skills and abilities.
If an outstanding applicant's experience and skill level is above or below the qualifications outlined in the job posting, we reserve the right to make an offer at a different level than the one listed in this job posting, which may have a different compensation range.]
This role is eligible for additional incentives, including an annual bonus. These rewards are allocated based on level, impact and performance in the role.
Our benefits include :
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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.
Salary : $95,000 - $135,000
