Principal Product Manager (R13685)

Position Overview

Join Oportun as a Principal Product Manager for the Lending Platform. This is a key leadership role requiring a strategic thinker with proven experience managing 0-1 product launches. You will grow the Partnerships program, drive core Marketing capabilities, and work closely with business and marketing teams.

Responsibilities

• Customer Insights & Validation: Maintain deep understanding of customer needs through user research, surveys, and feedback loops; incorporate insights into product enhancements
• Product Vision & Strategy: Collaborate with leadership and cross-functional partners to define multi-year vision and set OKRs
• Growth Execution: Plan, run, and iterate experiments across funnel and channels to drive measurable lifts in acquisition, activation, conversion, and retention
• Team Leadership: Drive cross-functional teams of Product Managers, Designers, Engineers, ML scientists, and Business partners (Marketing, Risk, Fraud) to deliver business impact
• Risk & Compliance: Work with compliance and risk teams to ensure products meet regulatory requirements and industry best practices
• Communication: Craft product narrative, drive alignment with executive leadership, and communicate priorities, risks, and trade-offs across functions and external partners

Requirements

• 12+ years of total experience, including 7-10+ years in product management within high-growth environments
• Passion for improving the financial health of underserved consumers
• Proven ability as an analytical problem solver with experience working on complex problems
• Strong track record of making data-informed decisions through testing, experimentation, and metrics definition
• Demonstrated success shipping and iterating on impactful products with cross-functional collaboration
• Excellent communication and documentation skills
• Scrappy, solution-oriented approach with ability to overcome obstacles
• Preferred: 0-1 experience bringing new products to market in financial services

Work Environment

• Fully remote (anywhere in the world)
• Fast-paced environment requiring adaptability to shifting priorities
• Collaborative culture focused on diversity, equity, and inclusion