Pricing Engine Manager

Better; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Better is redefining home finance and is seeking a Pricing Engine Manager to oversee pricing engines crucial for market competitiveness. The role involves analytics, teamwork across departments, and optimizing pricing strategies. Join a leading fintech company committed to innovation in the mortgage industry.

Benefits

$0 medical plan premium

Flexible PTO

Immediate virtual mental health support

Dependent care benefits

Qualifications

• 5+ years of direct experience in capital markets.
• Strong understanding of mortgage pricing.
• Experience with pricing engines and rate optimization.

Responsibilities

• Maintain synchronization between pricing engines and core strategies.
• Analyze competitor positioning to optimize market share.
• Collaborate with multiple teams for pricing updates.

Skills

Analytical Skills

SQL

Data Visualization

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Finance, Economics, or related field

Tools

Excel

Looker

Job description

Better is reimagining home finance and making it faster, cheaper, and easier for everyone to become a homeowner. We leverage creative technology and innovation to make the home buying journey more approachable and understandable and home finance more affordable and accessible. Here are some interesting facts to help you get to know Better:

- We’ve funded over $100 billion in loans for our customers, more than any other fintech

- Yahoo! Finance - Best Mortgage Lender for First Time Homebuyers of January 2025: Best lender for quick approval

- Yahoo! Finance - Best Mortgage Lenders of 2025: Best online mortgage lender

- Fintech Breakthrough Award: Best Lending Innovation Award

- Money Magazine - 8 Best Mortgage Lenders of 2025: Best for fast closing

- We are Forbes’ Best Online Mortgage Lender for 2023

- We have raised over $1.2 billion in equity capital to transform the mortgage industry, the largest financial asset class in the world

We are a place where smart, hungry, ambitious people who want to recognize their full potential thrive.

A Better Opportunity

We are seeking a highly analytical and strategic Pricing Engine Manager to oversee and optimize two pricing engines that power our publicly available rates on major marketplace websites, including Credit Karma, Bankrate, MoneyLion, LendingTree, Nerdwallet, and others. This role is critical in ensuring that our marketing pricing engines remain aligned with our core pricing strategy while maximizing competitiveness and profitability in public marketplaces.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain synchronization between our core pricing engine and marketing pricing engines by working closely with Capital Markets, Product, Sales, and Marketing teams.
• Ensure pricing changes reflect market conditions and align with internal pricing strategies.
• Develop and implement processes to streamline pricing updates and minimize discrepancies between internal and external rate displays.
• Continuously monitor rate competitiveness across marketplace websites and identify opportunities for arbitrage where pricing discrepancies can be leveraged for increased volume or margin.
• Analyze competitor rate positioning and recommend adjustments to optimize market share.
• Conduct regular competitive analysis and track trends in borrower demand, conversion rates, and pricing performance.
• Identify opportunities to increase revenue per marketing dollar spent by optimizing pricing strategies, targeting, and placement.
• Work with marketing and analytics teams to test and refine pricing strategies that drive higher ROI.
• Implement data-driven decision-making by analyzing lead performance, customer acquisition cost (CAC), and return on investment (ROI) across different marketplace partners.
• Collaborate with engineering and product teams to enhance pricing engine capabilities, including automation and predictive modeling.
• Develop real-time monitoring systems and dashboards to track pricing performance and anomalies.
• Generate regular performance reports highlighting key trends, optimization opportunities, and financial impact.
• Work with data science and analytics teams to refine predictive models for pricing optimization.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of direct experience in capital markets
• Strong understanding of mortgage pricing
• Experience with pricing engines, rate optimization, and lead marketplaces is required.
• Highly analytical, with advanced experience using SQL, Excel, and data visualization tools (eg: Looker)
• Ability to work cross-functionally with Capital Markets, Marketing, Sales, Product, and Data Science teams.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to present complex data-driven insights in a clear and actionable manner.
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, data-driven environment with a test-and-learn mindset.
• Background in performance marketing, lead buying, or digital marketing optimization preferred
• Familiarity with API-driven pricing integrations and marketplace rate distribution preferred

Company Benefits

We are thrilled to offer all our full-time employees the following benefit offerings:

- Benefits eligibility effective DAY ONE

- *$0 medical plan premium offering coverage nationwide paired with our Health Savings Account that includes an employer contribution (*Additional Medical, dental, vision plan options also all with nationwide coverage)

- Flexible PTO

- Immediate virtual mental health support by licensed therapists for our employees and their eligible dependents age 6 and up! First few visits at no cost to you!

- Personalized care for every fertility and family care journey for our employees and their partner!

- Dependent care benefits (i.e. childcare and/or elder care costs) include a company match

- Discount programs and perks including pet Insurance!

The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided.

Disclaimer

Better Home & Finance Holding Company is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse environment for our employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status, or any other reason protected by law.

We are committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Better will not discriminate against any qualified individual who is capable of performing the essential functions of the job with or without reasonable accommodation.