Risk Analytics Senior Product Manager

Summary

Join NinjaHoldings as a Senior Product Manager and report directly to the Chief Risk Officer. You will drive initiatives impacting loan volume growth and portfolio performance, prioritizing the Risk team's roadmap while ensuring alignment with business goals. Collaborate with various departments, including Marketing, Engineering, Compliance, and Finance. The ideal candidate is analytical, technical, and personable, capable of transitioning between big-picture thinking and detailed execution. Success requires working with multiple teams on complex projects. Leverage data to evaluate project impact and guide decision-making. Understand product functionality from various perspectives (Risk, Marketing, Engineering, Compliance, Call Center).

Requirements

• 5+ years product management experience in financial services
• Demonstrated success delivering projects that require coordination and alignment of multiple departments
• Experience writing requirements for Engineering and other departments
• Experience supporting or leading the implementation of decision engines or other technical platforms
• Strong ability to determine priority of projects with disparate goals coming from various departments
• Strong ability to pitch ideas to department heads through the use of data and strategic thinking
• Strong ability to distill the needs of our customers to various departments
• Strong analytical ability to determine the impact of projects to a product's success
• Expertise in one of the following areas: Risk, Marketing, Software Engineering

Responsibilities

• Manage and prioritize strategic projects in partnership with the Risk team, ensuring alignment with key business outcomes
• Support the technical design and implementation of decisioning models and platforms, working closely with Risk, Engineering and other PMs
• Translate and clarify technical requirements to ensure readiness for development
• Regularly attend department and product level meetings to remain aware of how Risk and other departments’ efforts may impact the overall roadmap and company goals
• Work closely with Marketing, Compliance, Bank Partnerships, Legal, and Engineering to ensure alignment across teams
• Use data to evaluate and communicate project impact, make informed trade-offs, and guide decision-making at the department level
• Be the nexus of understanding regarding "how the products work" from the perspective of Risk, Marketing, Engineering, Compliance and Call Center

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep experience in consumer lending
• Ability to write SQL
• You've worked in a startup
• You've started a business

Benefits

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible, remote work
• Fun, fast-paced work environment
• Dynamic start-up culture
• Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
• Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city