Product Manager, Acquisitions Decisioning

Role Overview

Join Mission Lane's Acquisitions Team as a Product Manager for Acquisitions Decisioning. You will own the decision engine that assesses risk, verifies identity, and determines credit lines for customer applications in real-time.

Key Responsibilities

• Define and execute the product roadmap for the post-application decisioning engine, translating strategic goals into technical requirements and user stories
• Partner with Data, Credit, and Engineering teams to operationalize complex underwriting models and ensure business logic is correctly implemented
• Optimize third-party data integrations to balance approval accuracy with unit economics and data costs
• Collaborate with Fraud Operations to implement real-time defenses against synthetic fraud and identity theft
• Monitor decisioning platform health for high availability, low latency, and accurate error handling
• Drive alignment across Credit, Fraud, and Engineering teams as the subject matter expert
• Prioritize data-driven decisions balancing risk management with seamless user experience

Minimum Qualifications

• 3+ years of product management experience focused on backend decisioning systems
• Technical proficiency with ability to discuss system architecture, APIs, and implementation trade-offs with engineers
• SQL proficiency to query data, investigate decision logs, and analyze funnel performance
• Proven track record managing complex projects with cross-team dependencies
• Experience designing and running A/B tests
• Strong analytical skills and data-driven decision-making experience

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in fintech, lending, or financial services
• Background managing platform products with heavy data exchange and API integrations
• Operational experience with fraud prevention or management
• Familiarity with credit bureau data or identity verification services