What are the responsibilities and job description for the Director, Product position at LendingPoint, LLC?
At LendingPoint, we believe that everyone deserves to feel the power of possibilities. As an online fintech company, we’ve created advanced consumer, small business, and merchant point-of-sale lending solutions to unlock access to affordable loans and empower those working to build their financial potential. By creating technology that sees your potential, we’re driving a better lending and borrowing experience by finding more reasons to say “yes.”
More than just a job, LendingPoint is an exciting career choice where you’ll bring your expertise and experience to a talented team focused on product innovation.
Are we speaking about you? Then keep reading.
What’s In It For You?
- Competitive Base Salary
- Excellent Benefits Package That Includes: Medical/Dental/Vision, 401(k) match, Paid Holidays, and more!
- Team Oriented Fast-Paced Fun Environment
- Dedicated and experienced Management Team
- On-going training and investment in our employees
What You’ll Do Day to Day:
As a key member of the product leadership team, the Director of Product will lead the execution of the product roadmaps delivering product feature innovation, and product for LendingPoint.
ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
- Provide product delivery expertise for a dynamic fintech company during the small to mid-size growth period.
- Apply data expertise to understand customer needs and optimize levers to increase profitability for the company based on data and quantitative analyses.
- Sequence and plan core functionality and feature development, leverage MVP approaches iterating/optimizing toward scaled rollout.
- Understand the fundamentals of product economics, develop new ideas, and test concepts back tested on data simulations.
- Develop and lead the product roadmap, working across the enterprise to comprehensively understand the company’s strategies and effectively prioritize the feature release timetable that maximizes customer benefit.
- Perform research, due diligence, evaluation, selection and subsequent management of external feature providing partners (vendor).
- Collaborate and operate cross functionally with internal groups including marketing, finance, legal, customer experience, risk management, and technology, on an ongoing basis to deliver product feature functionality.
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study; Advanced degree in data/analytics related field preferred, e.g., Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Economics, Business, Data Science, or equivalent work experience, preferred.
- 5 years’ experience working with external service providers, software developers and engineers, with a strong ability to translate product requirements succinctly and ensure technology deliverables are built with high quality
- Solid understanding UX/UI along with user-centered design and development, with a solid understanding of how different technologies work together to enable a successful product launch.
- Firm understanding of Agile product development.
- Working knowledge of tools such as SQL, Jira, AHA, and Tableau
- Ability to work under pressure and adapt quickly in an environment with evolving business demands.