Director, Digital Product Management
Avant is dedicated to building premier digital banking solutions for the middle class through a combination of technology, analytics and superior customer service. Since 2012, Avant has connected over 1.5 million customers to over $7.5 billion in loans and 800,000 credit cards. A high growth financial technology company, Avant has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, TechCrunch, Fortune, Bloomberg, and has raised over $600 million of equity capital. Visit www.avant.com for more information.
Avant is looking for a Director of Digital Product Management who’s ready to lead the digital product strategy. You will create and drive the product strategy, vision, and roadmap of future products, with a high degree of ownership over critical features, strategic initiatives and developing a delightful customer experience. This position will report to the company’s Vice President of Banking and will build a team of Product Managers.
What you will do at Avant:
- Lead the build out and oversee the digital product organization
- Develop and manage the roadmap for all of digital products, including the mobile applications, website and CRM platform
- Manage the digital product vision, scope, releases, and overall governance, including prioritization of business requirements and provides guidance on refinement and elaboration of the backlog
- Work closely with cross functional partners to drive a shared vision for the digital experience
- Define and be accountable for product goals and metrics
- Be a passionate advocate for the customer. Be a subject matter expert on competitors, products and industry needs
- Leverage modern product development processes (e.g. design thinking and agile development) to drive timely decisions and incremental value to the customer
- Collaborate with Avant’s Marketing Team to drive user research initiatives with clear objectives toward developing a deeper understanding of user needs and finding opportunities for solutions and innovation
- Oversee prioritization of product backlog, working with all departments to ensure alignment and timely/successful delivery
Why you are a fit for Avant:
- BS/BA degree. MBA is a plus.
- Minimum 10+ years of product management experience delivering highly successful and innovative products with a customer-centric mindset
- Agile development in a production environment at a startup or tech organization
- Prior experience building and managing teams and setting strategy in a product organization, with KPIs that you were directly responsible for
- Ability to understand and craft a story / insights from multiple sources of data. Using data to drive decision making and prioritization
- Experience collaborating with engineers, designers and data scientists to understand the technical scope of products and features
- Strong communication skills and ability to interface with multiple stakeholders across the organization, with an eye towards building cross-functional collaboration and support
- You can craft a coherent product vision, balancing quarterly objectives with longer multi-year strategy that will enable Avant to be successful long-term
- You are excited about building the business of Avant as a cohesive whole, not just building features or products in isolation
- Strong interpersonal skills, analytical skills, combined with intellectual curiosity, and a desire and ability to "get sh!t done!"
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Why Avant is a fit for you:
At Avant, we believe our values make a difference:
We value, support, and help each other grow
We are committed to active inclusion and diversity
We are transparent and believe the best idea wins
We succeed when our customers succeed
We get sh!t done… responsibly
And we keep it fun!
We believe that ideas are more important than titles, everything is more fun together, everyone drives change, and everyone is an owner. While we believe the perks and benefits that we offer are terrific, nothing excites us more than having the ability to collaborate with intelligent, highly-motivated and talented people on challenging problems as we work to change the face of online lending.
Avant is an equal opportunity employer and individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, color, national origin, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation or gender identity), age, disability or genetic information or any other factor protected by applicable federal, state or local law, regulation or ordinance.