Lead Product Manager

Bankrate; United States; Hybrid; USD 145,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

401(k) with match

Paid Time Off

Job summary

Bankrate seeks a Lead Product Manager to own the strategy and roadmap for a cross-functional team transforming our mortgage marketplace into a centralized hub for the home financing journey.

You will drive end-to-end product strategy, balance consumer and lender needs, and guide a squad of engineers and designers. Expect speed, growth, and potential for people management as the team scales.

Qualifications

• Experience building engaging consumer experiences, ideally in fintech or financial services.
• Led a marketplace product from traditional lead generation to a data-validated transactional platform.
• Ability to manage complex, parallel workstreams and mentor future reports.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end product vision for a centralized mortgage platform.
• Lead design and execution of tools for home affordability analysis and pre-approvals.
• Partner with vendors to develop data capture and verification for high-quality leads.
• Build seamless digital pathways for mortgage applications to lenders.

Skills

Product management

Cross-functional leadership

Data-driven decisions

Financial tooling

APIs

Tools

Mortgage tech platforms

Job description

\\This role is open to remote or hybrid candidates (East Coast preference), with hybrid being central to our New York, NY or Charlotte area offices. Must be able to work Eastern Standard Time hours.

As a Lead Product Manager, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for a cross-functional team focused on transforming our market-leading mortgage marketplace into a centralized hub for the entire home financing journey. Your primary objective will be to deepen our value proposition to users while scaling our partnerships with lenders by delivering higher-qualified leads driven by deeply validated data. This represents a meaningful expansion of how Bankrate serves consumers and financial institutions at the moments that matter most.

This role leads end-to-end product strategy in a high-speed, high-impact role operating in a start-up type environment where speed to learning is key. You will serve as the core product and technical leader for a cross-functional squad of engineers and designers. While this role begins as an individual contributor, there is strong potential to transition into direct people management as the team and product surface expand. You will set a 12–24 month product vision that drives impactful financial outcomes for consumers—enabling them to analyze home affordability, secure pre-approvals, submit applications, and compare real loan estimates in one seamless interface.

What You’ll Do:

• Own the Centralized Platform: Define the end-to-end product vision for a comprehensive digital mortgage experience that guides users step-by-step through the financing process to buy a home.


• Build Advanced Consumer Financing Tools: Lead the design and execution of native capabilities that deliver accurate home affordability analyses, streamlined pre-approval workflows, and side-by-side comparisons of real loan estimates.


• Partner with Third Party Vendors: Lead vendor partnerships that assist in developing high-fidelity data capture and verification tools that transform standard marketplace inquiries into highly qualified, transaction-ready leads, maximizing downstream conversion for our financial institution partners.


• Simplify the Application Lifecycle: Build seamless digital pathways that assist users in securely submitting mortgage applications directly to lenders, shifting user behavior from casual browsing to active transacting.


• Strategic Tradeoffs: Balance the needs of both key personas — the consumer (seeking transparency, speed, and real loan options) and the lender (seeking verified, high-intent, and compliant borrower data) — making deliberate prioritization decisions when they compete.


• Squad Leadership: Partner closely with Engineering and Design leads to ensure strong execution health, technical quality, and appropriate sequencing of foundational data infrastructure vs. consumer-facing features.


• Operational Excellence: Establish clear operating rhythms, decision frameworks, and success metrics that enable consistent delivery and learning across the transactional ecosystem.


• Data-Driven Iteration: Use quantitative and qualitative insights to validate strategy, guide prioritization, and iterate on the roadmap across both B2C (affordability and application flows) and B2B (lender integration and data delivery) dimensions

What We’re Looking For:

• Proven experience building engaging, creative consumer experiences — ideally involving complex flows, financial tooling, or end-to-end application funnels.


• Experience taking a marketplace product from a traditional lead-generation model into a deeper, data-validated transactional platform.


• Demonstrated ability to manage complex, parallel workstreams and act as a strong cross-functional influencer without losing strategic clarity or execution discipline; readiness or prior experience to eventually mentor or manage direct reports is a plus.


• Ability to work with APIs, underwriting engines, and other mortgage technologies to ensure seamless, secure data flow between consumers and lending partners.


• Experience owning complex, interconnected data platforms and integration layers rather than isolated front-end features.


• Track record of driving measurable outcomes, particularly in conversion optimization, lead quality metrics, and revenue-impacting data products.


• Comfort navigating compliance and ambiguity while maintaining forward momentum.


• Experience in financial services or fintech, with a deep understanding of the mortgage lifecycle is a strong plus.

Compensation:

This range reflects total cash compensation, which may include base salary only or base salary plus target bonus, depending on the role. Where eligible, equity may also be offered separately and not included below. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.

• Total Cash Compensation Range: $145,000 – $260,000 per year

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)


• Life Insurance


• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance


• Flexible Spending Accounts


• Holiday Pay


• 401(k) with match


• Employee Assistance Program


• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential. That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy. Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

Who We Are:

Bankrate is where Americans go to get the best price on life's most important financial decisions. By combining proprietary data, advanced technology, and deep market coverage, Bankrate helps consumers compare options and make confident financial choices across mortgages, credit cards, savings, and more. As a rate provider to the Federal Reserve and the benchmark relied upon by major publishers and policymakers nationwide, Bankrate's rate data is the national standard. This commitment to precision is reflected across all its products. In mortgages, proprietary auction technology puts lenders in real-time competition on price alone, consistently delivering rates in the lowest 10% in the country. For deposits, the platform features exclusively top-tier rates in the top 10% nationally, while its credit card coverage encompasses more than 90% of the market by volume. Founded by a journalist, Bankrate remains dedicated to its founding mission of transparency, honest information, and real competition — helping to make the American dream more affordable for everyone.

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