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Leads Kapitus’ core lending product portfolio, including term loans and lines of credit. Owns product P&L, strategy, pricing, go-to-market execution, competitive intelligence, roadmap prioritization, regulatory alignment, and financial outcomes. Partners with Product Delivery, Risk, Finance, Sales, Marketing, Operations, Compliance, and executives. Manages and develops a team of product managers while identifying opportunities for AI and machine learning to improve underwriting, decisioning, offers, and borrower communications.

Provides daily sales and partner support for ISO/MRP channel partners, including contract management, document and underwriting review, pipeline updates, partner communications, CRM record maintenance, onboarding, recertification, and account assignments. Coordinates with Legal, Compliance, Marketing, Operations, and Underwriting while responding to partner inquiries and maintaining accurate records. Supports partner relationship management, communicates policies and incentives, and helps ensure compliant, timely processing of financing opportunities.

Develop and maintain Python backend services, primarily with Flask, while designing scalable architecture and integrating legacy systems. Build AWS solutions using Lambda, Cognito, SNS, SQS, and DynamoDB; maintain CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code with OpenTofu and Terraform. Collaborate in an Agile/Scrum environment, contribute to technical decisions and engineering standards, review code, and mentor junior developers.

Support the Director of Brand Marketing to execute brand initiatives across online reputation, customer advocacy, digital PR, creative asset development, and video production. Manage project timelines, external agencies, and a centralized brand asset library. Track reviews, customer sentiment, and research-driven campaigns. Provide day-to-day leadership, coaching, and workload management for a small coordinator team while ensuring brand consistency and timely execution of marketing programs.

Develop and execute SEO and AI search optimization strategies to improve organic visibility and drive qualified traffic. Perform keyword, prompt, competitor, and intent research; create content briefs and roadmaps; run technical SEO audits; implement schema/structured data recommendations; monitor AI-powered search platforms; build reporting and insights; and collaborate cross-functionally on content, web, PR, and marketing initiatives to grow brand awareness and organic performance.