Senior Product Manager

leadbank; New York (NY); On-site; USD 220,000 - 248,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity grants

Health benefits

401k matching

Paid parental leave

Flexible vacation

Job summary

Lead Bank is seeking a seasoned product leader to drive the development of our Banking as a Service platform. This senior individual contributor role focuses on end-to-end ownership, cross-functional influence, and delivering elegant fintech solutions for deposits, credit, lending, and card transactions.

The ideal candidate combines strong analytical skills with first-principles thinking and a user-first mindset to build a next-generation platform from the ground up.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of product management and/or engineering experience in fintech.
• Experience with enterprise software, SaaS, and compliance-focused products.
• Strong technical competence with high-availability services and API design.
• Strong judgment, analytical skills, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Humility and openness to coaching.

Responsibilities

• Be passionate about modernizing the banking system for a digital economy.
• Break down ambiguous problems and use first principles to unblock decisions.
• Develop and maintain a prioritized product roadmap with clear requirements.
• Maintain knowledge of technical and operational elements to inform decisions.
• Develop clear product requirements and communicate with engineering and design.
• Be the glue in a diverse cross-functional environment to drive decisions.
• Perform all other duties as assigned.

Skills

Product management

Engineering collaboration

API design

Cross-functional leadership

Analytical thinking

Communication skills

Humility

Coaching mindset

Job description

About Lead Bank

Lead is a banking infrastructure platform trusted by the most innovative companies to power complex financial products. We enable fintechs to offer compliant, programmable services like payments, lending, and digital assets at scale. Banking has moved beyond traditional institutions and is now embedded directly into everyday experiences, meaning companies need modern infrastructure that is safe, secure, and operationally sound.

Today, Lead is one of the only API-first, developer-focused partner banks with the financial, regulatory, and legal expertise required to help fintechs succeed. We operate offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, and an FDIC-insured bank in Kansas City.

Product Team at Lead

Lead’s Product team identifies partner needs, defines strategy, and works closely with Engineering and Design to bring products to life, guiding execution from concept through launch. But building financial infrastructure isn’t just about shipping features. This team is tasked with transforming the most complex banking systems and regulatory requirements into intuitive products that developers love to build with. To help fintechs launch, grow, and innovate with confidence, the Product team must be driven by a singular goal: creating elegant solutions to difficult problems. To that end, success on this team requires genuine curiosity, exceptional communication, and thoughtful collaboration.

Role Description:

We are looking for a seasoned product leader to support the development of our Banking as a Service platform. The services that you build will create the pathway for our clients to deliver innovative financial products relating to deposits, credit and lending, issuing and accepting credit card and/or debit card transactions, and more.

An ideal leader will be highly analytical and use “first principles thinking” when understanding a new domain. We are looking for someone with a user-first mindset to build a next-generation platform from the ground up. This is a senior individual contributor role, with success defined by product leadership, end-to-end ownership, and strong cross-functional influence.

In this role you will:

• Be passionate about changing the banking system to meet the needs of a modern digital economy

• Break down ambiguous problems, ask the right questions when gathering data across cross-functional groups, and use a structured (first principles approach) to unblock a decision to help create a path forward

• Develop and maintain a prioritized product roadmap with well defined product requirements and business justifications

• Maintain knowledge of the technical and operational elements of your product which should inform decision making

• Develop clear product requirements and communicate them with engineering teams and designers

• Be the glue in a diverse cross-functional environment and help drive decisions and consensus

• Perform all other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

• 7+ years demonstrated experience in product management and/or engineering with a track record building world class fintech products

• Prior experience in enterprise software domain, scalable SaaS platform design experience, and highly compliance-centric product

• Have strong technical competence, with experience and track record of success in building high-velocity, low-latency, high-availability services with beautiful API design

• The ability to be practical and are eager to collaborate/compromise to get to the best, most efficient outcome

• Strong judgment and analytical skills

• Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally to align stakeholders on the goals and behaviors required for success

• Operate as a craftsman who will explore and execute on details to create great product experiences

• Have humility and are open to coaching

What we offer:

• At Lead, we design our benefits to support company culture and principles, to foster an efficient and inspiring work environment, and to create the conditions for our team to give their best in both work and life:

• Competitive compensation, including opportunities for equity grants based on experience, geographic location, and role

• Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, 401k Matching, and other wellness benefits, including FSA, HSA and HRA

• Paid parental leave

• Flexible vacation policy, including PTO and paid holidays

• A fun and challenging team environment in a dynamic industry with ample opportunities for career growth

*Lead Bank is proud to have an inclusive culture committed to ensuring equal employment opportunity in all employment decisions regardless of race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, veteran status or any other legally protected status.

*Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

*Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

*Pursuant to the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

*Our compensation reflects the cost of labor across several US geographic markets. Pay is based on a number of factors and may vary depending on geographical market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future.

Zone 1: $220,000 - $248,200 (SF/Bay Area, NYC, Seattle)

Zone 2: $190,000 - $220,000 (Los Angeles, Chicago, Austin, Denver, Boston, Washington DC, San Diego, Philadelphia, Portland, Sacramento, Miami)

Zone 3: $180,000 - $206,400 (Other US Metros)

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