Product Manager, Lending

Visa; Reading; Remote; GBP 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology company in the UK is seeking a Product Manager to lead the development of an API-based Lending Product. You will manage the product lifecycle and collaborate with various stakeholders to optimize delivery for the lending platform. Candidates must have minimum 3 years of relevant experience, with a strong background in lending products and agile methodologies. This role offers a remote work arrangement, making it accessible across the UK.

Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience.
• Minimum 2 years in a Lending Product role.
• Experience in an agile environment.

Responsibilities

• Understand business requirements from various stakeholders.
• Maintain product backlog and roadmap prioritisation.
• Drive communications with teams and stakeholders.

Skills

Communication Skills

API Knowledge

Agile Methodologies

Willingness to Learn

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Tools

Jira

Miro

Postman

AWS

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Company Description

Founded by experienced entrepreneurs and engineers in 2016, Pismo is a technology company that provides a comprehensive processing platform for banking, card issuing and financial market infrastructure and helps customers innovate and build the next generation of banking and payment solutions. Pismo joined Visa in 2024.

Leveraging Visa's solutions, our core platform, and an expanding suite of capabilities, Pismo addresses the technological challenges that large banks, marketplaces, and fintech companies face in migrating from legacy systems to more advanced technology in the market. Pismo's cloud-based platform empowers firms to build and launch financial products rapidly, scaling as they grow to have a broader audience while keeping high security and availability standards.

Pismo's 500+ employees are located in more than 10 countries around the world.

Job Description

The Pismo Lending Group is responsible for building a world class API-based Lending Product that manages the entire lifecycle of loans from its simulation until its completion. With a special focus on product creation and lifecycle management, our Lending Product aims to offer a competitive advantage in being innovative and agile to a variety of financial institution customers. The product leverages best-in-class technology assets in building a cloud-native microservices platform, offering our customers the most technologically advanced solution in lending thereby driving innovation, and business growth.

As part of the Pismo Lending Group, we are looking for a dynamic Product Manager / Owner who will be reporting to the Group Product Manager and working closely with Product Specialist in the UK. The Product Manager / Owner should have worked in the lending domain and is comfortable working in the areas of APIs and cloud-based platforms.

The main responsibilities of this role are:

- Understand business requirements from a variety of stakeholders
- Evaluate, map, record intakes and requirements that can deliver value for the Lending platform target customer segments

-Generate artifacts that convert intakes into clear and concise requirements (User Stories, Customer Journeys, Workflows, One Pagers, Presentations, Spreadsheets...).
- Maintain product backlog and roadmap organised according to prioritisation from market, business and internal demands - seeking to optimize delivery of value to customers (current and future) and to Pismo.
- Build quarterly milestones for the product roadmap and ensure timely delivery.
- Participate in testing and validating features built for the lending product.
- Drive communications and alignments with Engineers, QA Analysts, Product Specialists, Pre-Sales, Sales and Customers.
- Exercise self-directed leadership within the lending team.
- Be the go-to person for the functional capabilities of the Lending platform

This is a remote position. A remote position does not require job duties be performed within proximity of a Visa office location. Remote positions may be required to be present at a Visa office with scheduled notice.

Qualifications

Minimum qualifications

• The candidate needs to be based in the UK
• Minimum 3 years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor`s Degree
• At least 2 years of working experience in a Lending Product such as Personal Loans, BNPL, Car Loans or Mortgages.
• Previous experience in an agile environment (familiarity with Scrum, Kanban, Jira, Miro and other commonly used Agile tools)
• Working knowledge of APIs, Postman and AWS cloud computing
• Experience working closely with technology teams and a variety of internal and external stakeholders
• Experience with functional tests
• Great Communication Skills
• Willingness to Learn and to Teach
• Native English / Up to C1 English (Advanced)

Desirable Qualifications

• Previous experience as Platform Product Manager or Technical Product Manager

• Worked in Global Core Banking/Lending Environments

Additional Information

Visa is an EEO Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.