Senior Product Manager

Allura Partners; Sydney; On-site; AUD 170,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

First product ownership

Sydney CBD office four days a week

Direct line to COO/CEO

Regular team events

Health and wellbeing initiatives

Job summary

Allura Partners in Sydney seeks the first product hire for a Sydney-based fintech lender. Reporting to the COO and working with the CEO and exec team, you will own the product roadmap end to end and place customer experience at the center of the product.

You'll sit within the platform delivery and technology team, collaborate with offshore partners, and influence across credit, risk, operations, sales and compliance to drive growth.

Qualifications

• Product management experience in startup/fintech or financial services.
• Real ownership of roadmap and strategy, not delivery management alone.
• Comfortable speaking with customers and using data to back decisions.
• Commercially minded and accountable for outcomes, not outputs.
• Ability to influence across credit, risk, operations, sales and compliance without direct authority.
• Lending or broker channel experience is well regarded but not essential.

Responsibilities

• Set the product vision and own the roadmap across origination, decisioning, settlement and servicing.
• Engage with small and medium business customers and broker partners, translating feedback into priorities.
• Bring customer experience under product ownership and redesign the end-to-end journey.
• Collaborate with platform and technology teams, and offshore engineering partners to build the roadmap.
• Contribute to commercial decisions with the executive team.

Skills

Product management

Roadmap ownership

Customer-centric

Data-driven

Commercial mindset

Stakeholder influence

Lending/broker experience

Job description

About the Company

Our client is an Australian owned fintech lender backed by five years of platform investment, funding small and medium businesses across the country. Under 100 people, based in the Sydney CBD, and now building out product as a standalone function for the first time.

About the Role

The first product hire in the business, reporting to the COO and working directly with the CEO and exec team. You will sit within the platform delivery and technology team of seven, own the product roadmap end to end, and take customer experience under product ownership, with a team to build behind you.

Benefits

• $180,000 + Super, with a bonus that is historically paid
• Genuine ownership as the first product hire, with a direct line to the COO and CEO and a mandate to grow the function
• Four days in the office, Monday to Thursday, in a business that is deliberately collaborative rather than distributed
• Sydney CBD location, regular team events, and ongoing health and wellbeing initiatives

Duties / Key Responsibilities

• Set the product vision and own the roadmap across origination, decisioning, settlement and servicing
• Get in front of small and medium business customers and broker partners, and turn what you hear into prioritised work
• Bring customer experience under product ownership and rethink how the end to end journey is designed
• Work with the platform and technology team, and the offshore engineering partners they manage, to get the roadmap built
• Sit with the exec team on commercial decisions and help set the direction of the business

Skills and Experience

• Product management experience gained in a start up, scale up, fintech or financial services business
• Real roadmap and strategy ownership, not delivery management alone
• Comfortable speaking directly to customers and using data to back your decisions
• Commercially minded and accountable for outcomes rather than outputs
• Able to influence across credit, risk, operations, sales and compliance without direct authority
• Lending, broker or other third party channel experience is well regarded but not essential

About Allura Partners

Allura Partners was founded to support private equity firms by placing C-Suites to lead, transform, and scale portfolio companies. Today, in addition to our proven private equity specialisation, we've become a trusted partner for major ASX-listed and private enterprises in Australia, offering executive search, recruitment, and business transformation. Known for integrity, reliability, and results, our expertise spans Executive Search, Accounting & Finance, Transformation & Change, and Technology & Digital. We connect businesses and top-tier talent, exceeding expectations and driving lasting impact.