Director, Product Management (Consumer)

About the Company

Valons mission is to empower every homeowner. We believe the journey of home ownership starts when you get your keys but lasts far beyond. Were creating a world where home ownership comes with ease security and financial know-how. Our growing team of engineers operators product enthusiasts and experienced servicing professionals are leveraging technology to fundamentally improve the homeownership experience. Through mortgage servicingthe process of paying off ones mortgageValon is taking the first step in transforming the industry one homeowner and lender at a time.

About Valon

Valons mission is to empower every homeowner. We believe the journey of homeownershipbegins when you receive your keysbut lasts far beyond. At Valon were building technologythat reimagines mortgage servicing starting with a platform that makes managing a mortgagesimple transparent and stress-free. Were a growing team of engineers operators productleaders and servicing experts working to transform the industry one homeowner and lender ata time.

Product at Valon

The Product team at Valon is focused on designing and scaling a next-generation platform thatdelivers an exceptional experience for homeowners while enabling operational excellence forour servicing teams. We work at the intersection of regulation finance andtechnologybalancing the need for compliance and controls with the opportunity to builddelightfully simple transparent tools for consumers.

About the Role

Were looking for a Director of Product Management to lead the vision strategy and execution for Valons consumer-facing product portfolio. Valon has a relationship with our users around homeownership and more generally over financial wellbeing. Mortgage servicing provides structural advantages for providing new products (often financial often commodity) with cost conversion and marketing advantages. Even better we are usually saving people money.

This includes growing our substantial lending business (including working up funnel to education and engagement pre-lending building new vertical segments like debt consolidation) partnering with our nascent insurance business (focused on property insurance today but with broad opportunities and tail-winds) building our mobile apps and launching new 0 to 1 consumer products for millions soon tens of millions of homeowners.

Were looking for a seasoned product leader who has worked on complex consumer SaaS products (ideally in a highly regulated domain such as Fintech) to take Valons nascent consumer vertical from 0 to 1. Although mortgage servicing is our bread and butter we believe consumer will be a critical growth lever for the business in the coming years and this hire will be key to shaping that the long-run consumer has the potential to be our largest business with mortgage servicing software providing proprietary access to consumers.

This role requires a growth-centric approach driving a large cross-functional team clear consumer insights and the ambition to build a new multi-billion dollar business.

Key Responsibilities

• Create our consumer strategy the roadmap partnerships and how to shape phase and distribute via our Mortgage Servicing SaaS product
• Grow our core consumer business: lending execution and strategy of a large and growing business that is core to mortgage servicing continue building the best-in-class team and business through software plus insight experimentation and iteration to our products marketing sales and operations
• Lead and grow a high-performing team of product managers setting clear priorities fostering a culture of innovation and ensuring exceptional execution
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering Design BizOps and operations to ship impactful products at scale
• Develop deep empathy for our users conducting research and using data to continuously improve product usability engagement and satisfaction as well as invest in building new 0 to 1 products

Ideal Background

• 7 years of product management experience with at least 3 years leading and scaling product teams
• Demonstrated success delivering high-complexity b2c products at scale ideally in fintech or other complex markets
• A strong track record of execution hitting deadlines and making customers happy
• Proven ability to drive alignment across engineering design and business stakeholders
• Strong product team building skills hiring and retaining top performers
• Strength in data-driven product building/growth
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g. finance healthcare insurance) is a plus but not required

What We Offer

• Compensation: Competitive salary meaningful equity and 401(k) plan
• Health & Well-being: Comprehensive medical dental and vision benefits
• Time Off: Flexible PTO 11 company holidays and 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Growth & Development: Regular feedback cycles leadership coaching and learning
• opportunities
• Team Culture: Quarterly budgets for team outings and culture-building activities
• Commute Support: Pre-tax commuter benefits for transit and parking