Mortgage Product Manager: Drive Cross-Functional Excellence

Default Brand; Oxford (MS); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Default Brand is seeking a Product Manager to drive software initiatives from discovery through delivery. Translate business needs into clear requirements and guide cross-functional teams to build customer-centered solutions.

Collaborate with product leadership, UI/UX, development, QA, sales, and legal; manage priorities, acceptance criteria, and milestones while escalating risks as needed. Travel up to 20% may be required.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in software product management or related role.
• Knowledge of mortgage processes, capital markets, or underwriting.
• Experience translating complex business needs into detailed software requirements.

Responsibilities

• Engage with customers, end users, and internal stakeholders to understand business needs, evaluate workflows, and identify product opportunities.
• Evaluate customer requests and business opportunities, recommend priorities, and communicate trade-offs among customer value, business impact, effort, and risk.
• Contribute to product roadmap planning and manage priorities, scope, and deliverables in alignment with product leadership.
• Translate business needs into clear, actionable requirements, including workflows, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to evaluate solutions, refine requirements, resolve open questions, and ensure proposed solutions meet business needs.
• Guide product functionality from discovery through development, testing, release, and post-release evaluation, maintaining clear ownership of product decisions, requirements, and outcomes throughout the lifecycle.
• Proactively manage and communicate progress, decisions, dependencies, and risks, providing recommendations and escalating issues when appropriate.
• Partner with stakeholders to communicate product value, expected business benefits, features, and functionality for customer education and sales enablement.
• Monitor product adoption, customer feedback, and business outcomes to identify opportunities for continuous improvement.

Skills

Product management

Stakeholder collaboration

Agile methodologies

Requirements translation

Decision making

Cross-functional teamwork

Communication skills

Attention to detail

SQL familiarity

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

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Job description

Default Brand is seeking a Product Manager to drive software initiatives from discovery through delivery. Translate business needs into clear requirements and guide cross-functional teams to build customer-centered solutions.

Collaborate with product leadership, UI/UX, development, QA, sales, and legal; manage priorities, acceptance criteria, and milestones while escalating risks as needed. Travel up to 20% may be required.