Senior Product Manager

*This role requires in-person attendance at least 3 days a week (ideally Tuesday-Thursday)*  

THE POSITION 
LendingTree is actively seeking a Senior Product Manager to lead and drive our platform product development efforts in collaboration with our Engineering, Design, Product Management and cross-functional operational teams.  As a seasoned professional, the Senior Product Manager will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing the strategic technical vision for one of our primary marketplace platforms and ensuring it meets the highest standards as well as aligning with the evolving needs of our business verticals and offerings.  You will be responsible for collaborating with stakeholders to ensure customer and business outcomes are measurable, repeatable, profitable and operationally efficient.  

RESPONSIBILITIES 

Product Strategy:  

• Develop and articulate a clear product strategy that aligns with the company's overall goals and objectives. Identify market trends, customer needs, and competitive landscape to drive product innovation. 

• Demonstrate a profound understanding of technical structures and systems, fostering cross-functional collaboration with UX/UI, technology, legal, compliance, sales, marketing, and other key stakeholders. 

• Lead efforts to establish performance thresholds per vertical with other vertical Product Managers and monitor and optimize performance metrics as required to ensure operational efficiency is achieved while working closely with Engineering for effective remediation and communication to stakeholders. 

Product Roadmap:  

• Play a crucial role in shaping the product roadmap and contribute to meticulous product release planning. 

Product Development:  

• Lead the collection, analysis, and documentation of advanced product requirements, translating them into comprehensive user stories and strategic initiatives. 

• Establish and uphold a superior documentation standard, producing high-quality materials tailored to diverse audiences. 

• Actively participate in Sprint Planning, Backlog Review, and Stand-ups, providing leadership as needed. 

• Oversee and contribute to User Acceptance Testing processes. 

Market Analysis:  

• Stay informed about industry trends, competitor offerings, and regulator changes in the lending and financial services sector.  Use market insights to identify opportunities for growth and product differentiation.  

• Use market and competitive analysis, business goals and technology capabilities to assess opportunities within the platform, which then enables other verticals to consume and leverage efficiently.  

Metrics and Analytics:  

• Define and track key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure the success and impact of product initiatives. Use data and analytics to make data-driven decisions and continuously improve product performance. 

• Utilize metrics to implement impactful functional improvements across site components, features, tools, and templates. 

Team Leadership and Cross-Functional Collaboration:  

• Demonstrate a proactive attitude, willing to delve into tasks to ensure the successful achievement of goals. 

• Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including engineering, design, marketing, and customer support, to ensure successful product development, launch, and ongoing optimization. 

QUALIFICATIONS 

• Bachelor's degree required, coupled with a significant track record of successful SaaS product management experience at a senior level. 

• Proven expertise in requirements documentation and technical writing, showcasing a comprehensive understanding of industry best practices. 

• Demonstrated passion for the Fintech space, with a dedicated commitment to the industry, consumers, and leveraging data to build a robust business. 

• Exceptional organizational skills and a process-oriented mindset, ensuring efficient project management and execution. 

• Ability to convert abstract business problems into actionable frameworks, 
  solutions and detailed requirements. 

• Analytical mindset with the ability to interpret data and make informed decisions.  

• In-depth knowledge of SCRUM and Agile principles, along with proficiency in OKR methodologies. 

• Strong ability to influence and build relationships in a matrixed environment. 

• Exceptional interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence for effective communication with stakeholders and peers.  

• Receptive listening skills, with the ability to present sophisticated ideas in a clear, concise fashion to technical and non-technical audiences.  

• Unwavering passion for solving customer problems and delivering exceptional user experiences. 

Why LendingTree?

• We’re making a real difference in the financial lives of consumers. The work you’ll do here matters.
• Rare ambitious environment filled with flip-flops, t-shirts and people that take their job seriously.

Company

LendingTree is the nation’s largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders, so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts, and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money, and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders in order to make the best financial choices. Our CEO Doug Lebda founded the company in 1996 after a frustrating house-hunting experience. In those days, we mostly helped people find good mortgage deals. Now, we help consumers find their best in personal loans, auto loans, business loans, student loans, credit cards, savings accounts, home equity loans and more.

What else you should know:

• We’re a publicly traded company (TREE).
• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices.
• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.

Culture

We’re a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bend. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you’ll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please, do wear clothes to work!), and we’re pretty good about rewarding innovation, creativity and the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD, “Get Stuff Done”). Come work with us!

LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion; we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status.