Head of Product

Brigit; New York (NY); On-site; USD 230,000 - 290,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flexible PTO

401k plan

Wellbeing benefits including virtual &

Wifi/cell phone reimbursements

Learning & Development

Job summary

Brigit is a holistic financial health company helping everyday Americans build a brighter financial future. The Head of Product leads Brigit's product organization, owning customer and business outcomes for the full suite of products.

Reporting to the Chief Credit Officer, you will shape a multi-year roadmap, drive execution with cross-functional teams, and champion data-informed decision making while balancing user needs with regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of product management experience with leadership in scaling consumer products.
• 3+ years of product leadership in an early-stage technology company.
• 5+ years of experience working on consumer mobile products.
• Passion for social impact and improving people’s lives.
• Experience building and nurturing a product organization with empowered teams.
• Data-informed decision making balanced with intuition on user engagement.
• Expertise extracting and delivering consumer insights via focus groups, usability tests, surveys, behavioral data, and experiments.
• Strong partner management and internal evangelism through verbal and written communication.
• Organized, results-focused, and adept at building frameworks and processes.
• Strong understanding of consumer business economics: conversion, retention, monetization, LTV.
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, regulated, and analytically rigorous environment.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute a bold vision for products aligned with helping the underserved.
• Own outcomes across acquisition, conversion, engagement, monetization, and customer value.
• Translate priorities into clear product investments, roadmaps, and resource decisions.
• Use customer insight, data, experimentation, and business economics to guide decisions.
• Partner with Data to define measurable metrics and drive OKRs for Product teams.
• Deliver experiences that drive revenue, conversion, and engagement while improving cost efficiencies.
• Develop the roadmap of features and manage cross-functional implementation.
• Collaborate with engineering and marketing to establish agile processes and improve velocity.
• Build, recruit, and train a world-class product and design team.
• Think through organizational design as the team scales.
• Balance growth, customer experience, risk, compliance, and operational complexity.

Job description

Hi, we're Brigit! A holistic financial health company helping everyday Americans build a brighter financial future. With a business model that is aligned with our customers, we create transparent, fair, and simple financial products that put money back in the hands of our members, help them spend wisely, avoid unfair fees and build their credit quickly. If autonomy, ownership, and having meaningful input at the company you work for is important to you, come join our growing team!

Brigit is doing innovative and exciting work, but don’t just take our word for it, our work is being recognized by others:

• Built In's 2026 Best Midsize Companies to Work For in New York City
• Built In's 2025 Best Places to Work For In New York City
• Built In’s 2024 & 2025 Best Startups to Work For In the U.S.
• Built In’s 2023 - 2025 Best Startups to Work For In New York City
• Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2022
• Business Insider’s Most Promising Consumer Startups 2022

The Role

Financial stress is a leading source of stress and anxiety for millions of hard working Americans. As the Head of Product at Brigit, you’ll lead the product organization responsible for addressing these challenges while helping scale a substantial consumer fintech business.

Reporting to the Chief Credit Officer, the Head of Product is a critical senior leadership role with responsibility across product management, design, and user research for Brigit's entire suite of products.

In this role, you will build upon the existing product vision, own customer and business outcomes, and drive execution across our talented empowered cross-functional teams. You should be equally comfortable shaping a multi-year roadmap and going deep on customer discovery, experiments, product requirements or implementing product development processes.

What you’ll do

• Define and execute a bold vision for our products aligned with achieving our goal of improving the lives of the underserved
• Own outcomes across acquisition, conversion, engagement, monetization, and customer value
• Translate company priorities into clear product investments, roadmaps, and resource decisions
• Use customer insight, data, experimentation, and business economics to guide decisions
• Partner with the Data team to define measurable metrics of success for the Product teams, and drive accountability through OKRs
• Delivering experiences that drive revenue, conversion, and customer engagement, while driving cost efficiencies
• Develop the roadmap of features, adaptively planning forward and managing the implementation with cross-functional teams
• Collaborate with engineering and marketing leadership to establish agile processes, frameworks, and tools to improve product velocity, quality, accountability, and transparency
• Build, recruit, and train a world-class product and design team
• Proactively think through organizational design and development as the team scales
• Partner across functions to balance growth, customer experience, risk, compliance, and operational complexity

What you have

• 10+ years of product management experience, including experience in a leadership role with a proven track record of scaling consumer products and driving strategy and execution across multiple product areas.
• 3+ years experience in product leadership in an early‑stage technology company
• 5+ years of experience working in consumer mobile products
• A passion for making a social impact and helping build a business that dramatically improves people’s lives
• Experience leading and nurturing a product organization - fostering a culture of empowered, autonomous product teams, driving innovation and accountability
• You make data-informed decisions, and can balance that with a deep intuition of how users engage with a product or feature—you can rapidly validate and revise your hypotheses
• Deep knowledge of extracting and delivering consumer insights via focus groups, usability tests, surveys, behavioral data, and experiments
• Strong skills in partner management and internal evangelism through verbal and written communication
• Organized, focused on results, and experienced in creating the frameworks and processes critical for our growing team
• Strong understanding of consumer business economics, including conversion, retention, monetization, and lifetime value
• Comfort operating in a fast-moving, regulated, and analytically rigorous environment

Compensation

The anticipated annual base salary for this position is $230,000 - $290,000. This range does not include any other compensation components or other benefits for which an individual may be eligible (other benefits listed below). The actual base salary offered depends on a variety of factors, which may include as applicable, the qualifications of the individual applicant for the position, years of relevant experience, specific and unique skills, level of education attained, certifications or other professional licenses held, and the location in which the applicant lives and/or from which they will be performing the job.

Our Benefits & Team

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible PTO Policy
• 401k plan
• Physical and mental wellbeing benefits including Wellhub for access to virtual workouts and discounted gym memberships, and Headspace for covered virtual therapy sessions and unlimited on demand health support
• Monthly reimbursements to use against wifi and cell phone bills
• Annual reimbursement for Learning & Development
• Help hard working Americans build a brighter financial future
• High-growth company
• A dynamic, flexible and collaborative start-up work environment with a highly talented team

Brigit is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all applicants and employees without regard to race, religion, color, sex, pregnancy (including breast feeding and related medical conditions), national origin, citizenship status, uniform service member status, age, genetic information, disability, or any other protected status in accordance with all applicable federal, state and local laws. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre‑employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please email [e-mail].

Disclosures:

• For information on our data privacy policies, see the Brigit California Personnel Privacy Policy.
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