Sr Director, Product Management – Digital Engagement
San Francisco, CA - USA
Job Summary
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LendingClub(soon to be Happen Bank)is built around a simple purpose: to clear the way to help people turn intention into action and action intofinancial progress. That means offering focused products a frictionless mobile-first experience and clear terms with no gotchas. Respect and fairness is part of our DNA and that ideal shapes how we work how we treat each other and how we invest in our employees and our community. Join us in using data bold thinking and a commitment to innovation to help clear the way for millions of Americans to achieve more.
About the Role
We are looking for a Sr Director of Product Management Digital Engagement to lead the strategy roadmap and execution of engagement driving experiences across the LendingClub app and member ecosystem (across web and mobile).This leader will define and advance our vision for banking that clears the way for people to achieve more through digital-first products that are fast simple and help them take action on their own terms.
Capabilities in this domain may include:
Account aggregation and linking
Transaction insights and notifications
Credit monitoring and awareness
Personalized financial guidance and recommendations
Tools that help members understand manage and improve their financial lives
Communication strategies that encourage ongoing engagement with these tools
New product strategies that help drive ongoing engagement
Success in this role is measured by customer engagement behavioral activation and long-term relationship value.
You will guide a product organization focused on learning experimentation customer-centric design and measurable impact.
You will work closely with Engineering Design Data Science Business Marketing and Credit and Risk partners to build experiences that materially improve financial health and deepen member engagement within a regulated financial environment.
While this is a senior leadership role we are looking for a builder leader who stays close to the product. The ideal candidate is comfortable moving between strategy and execution. This includes shaping long term vision while also diving into product details reviewing designs defining experiments or prototyping ideas when helpful.
The strongest candidates will have experience building products across multiple stages of maturity. This includes early exploration (0 to 1) growth and scaling (1 to 10) and large-scale products used by millions of customers. We are also looking for someone who is actively engaged with AI tools and has a POV on how to leverage AI in product development.
What Youll Do
Product Vision & Strategy
- Develop and champion a clear vision for Digital Engagement across LendingClubs member experience
- Define an outcome driven roadmap that increases engagement builds daily value for members and strengthens long term relationships
- Partner with leaders across Product Marketing Credit and Risk to align engagement strategy with company priorities
- Ensure product investments are prioritized based on expected impact data and clear tradeoffs
Customer Understanding Discovery & Experimentation
- Lead teams to deeply understand member financial behaviors through qualitative and quantitative research
- Guide the design and execution of experiments such as A/B tests feature trials and behavioral interventions to validate product hypotheses
- Partner with Data Science and Research teams to define success metrics and measure behavioral outcomes
- Build a culture of rapid learning and evidence-based product decisions
Platform and Domain Leadership
- Oversee strategies involving account aggregation (with providers like Plaid MX Finicity etc.) financial data insights and personalized guidance experiences
- Translate complex data capabilities classification enrichment categorization insight generation into meaningful customer features
- Identify opportunities to combine LendingClubs proprietary data with aggregated financial data to deliver differentiated member insights
- Influence platform investments that support personalization experimentation and scalable engagement services
Execution with Accountability
- Deliver product experiences that measurably improve activation weekly/monthly engagement financial health outcomes and retention
- Partner closely with Engineering and Design to balance speed quality scalability and compliance requirements
- Ensure teams use behavioral business and product metrics to continuously improve product experiences
People & Organizational Leadership
- Lead hire and develop a high performing product team focused on digital engagement
- Build a culture of accountability curiosity and customer advocacy
- Develop product leaders who think strategically execute effectively and collaborate across functions
Cross Functional Leadership
- Serve as the product leader for Digital Engagement across the company
- Build strong partnerships with Engineering Design Data Credit and Risk and Marketing
- Communicate product vision progress and insights clearly to senior and executive stakeholders
- Influence cross-functional priorities that support mobile first engagement and personalized financial experiences
About You
- 12 years of product management experience including 8 years in people management
- Experience building consumer technology products that drive engagement habit formation or recurring usage
- Strong background in fintech financial services or similarly complex and regulated environments
- Experience building products across multiple stages of maturity. This includes 0 to 1 exploration growth and scaling and products used by millions
- Comfortable operating both strategically and hands on with product teams. This includes shaping specs reviewing designs and guiding experiments when needed
- Experience working with financial data aggregation platforms such as Plaid Finicity or MX or similar ecosystems is a strong plus
- Active engagement with AI tools especially as it relates to product development.
- Excellent communicator who can align teams and influence senior leaders with clarity and credibility
- Proven ability to hire coach and scale strong product teams
- Curious and experimental mindset. Comfortable learning quickly testing ideas and adapting direction based on evidence
Work Location
San Francisco
The above locations are eligible offices for this locations have been determined to foster in-person collaboration with this roles team or the related business lines. We utilize a hybrid work model and our teams are in-office Tuesdays Wednesdays and -person attendance is essential for this roles success and remote placement will not be offers relocation based on actual job level.
Time Zone Requirements
Primarily PT
While the position will primarily work local hours LendingClub is headquartered in Pacific Time and our ideal candidate will be flexible working across time zones when necessary.
Travel Requirements
As needed travel to LendingClub offices and/or other locations as needed.
Compensation
The target base salary range for this position is 00. The base salary of the role will be determined by job-related knowledge experience education skills and location. Base salary is just one part of LendingClubs Total Rewards package. You may also be eligible for long-term awards (equity) and an annual bonus (which is based on company performance employee performance and eligible earnings).
Were creating new financial services solutions for our members based on fairness simplicity and heart and we treat our employees the same way. We offer a competitive benefits package that includes medical dental and vision plans for employees and their families 401(k) match health and wellness programs flexible time off policies for salaried employees up to 16 weeks paid parental leave and more.
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LendingClub is an equal opportunity employer and dedicated to diversity equity and inclusion in the workplace. We do not discriminate on the basis of race religion color national origin sex (including pregnancy childbirth reproductive health decisions or related medical conditions) gender gender identity gender expression sexual orientation age marital status veteran status disability status political views or activity or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We believe that a variety of perspectives will make our teams and business stronger as we work together to transform the traditional banking system.
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About Company
We’re rewriting the rules of traditional banking, and we only win when our customers succeed. Personal loans up to $60,000, savings, CDs and more. Check your rate online in minutes without impacting your credit score.