Internal Developer Platform, Director Product Management

Social Finance (SoFi)
remote work
United States, Washington, Seattle
Nov 07, 2024
Employee Applicant Privacy Notice Who we are: Shape a brighter financial future with us. Together with our members, we're changing the way people think about and interact with personal finance. We're a next-generation financial services company and national bank using innovative, mobile-first technology to help our millions of members reach their goals. The industry is going through an unprecedented transformation, and we're at the forefront. We're proud to come to work every day knowing that what we do has a direct impact on people's lives, with our core values guiding us every step of the way. Join us to invest in yourself, your career, and the financial world. The Role We are seeking an experienced, strategic, and highly collaborative product leader with background leading product management for developers and developer communities. This role is central to the success of SoFi's strategy to develop industry-leading consumer products while also building the "AWS of Fintech". This role will provide product leadership to the collection of tools and services and teams that underlie our Internal Developer Platform and enable the software lifecycle across SoFi Technologies (consumer product) and Galileo Technologies (platform). You will have an opportunity to own, shape and deliver compelling best-in-class experiences for our internal developer community of 600 engineers and growing. You will be responsible for partnering with our engineering leaders and customers and capturing/communicating the vision, identifying opportunities, setting goals and priorities, and building out the developer journeys. As a product leader in our organization, we look to you to set big, ambitious goals, be gritty, and hold yourself and your cross-functional teams accountable to deliver results on behalf of our developers. We anticipate this role to expand over time and include building out a product management team to scale and mature our platform work. You will be a vocal and empathetic developer advocate, influencing and building cross-functional experiences with stakeholders across the organization including our business teams, risk and compliance, security, legal, and finance. This role is inherently cross-functional-you will work closely with engineering, design, data science, marketing, operations, finance, risk, legal, compliance and executive teams to set business objectives, define product strategy, prioritize features and execute on them. You'll play the critical bridging the technical and business worlds to enhance our ability to drive profitable business growth while managing risk and enabling our technology strategy. What you'll do: Lead product management for our internal developer platform. Create and evangelize the product vision and multi-year product roadmap, including prioritizing and driving backlogs with our engineering teams Communicate the vision, strategy, execution plan and company impact/learnings to all stakeholders including the highest levels of leadership in the company Be forward thinking and leverage technology, data, and tools, including ML or AI, that will provide a significantly differentiated value to our strategy Collaborate closely with the full cross-functional team (e.g., marketing, product, design, engineering, platform, data, compliance, risk, finance and operations) for your line of business & initiatives, to help execute on the strategic vision What you'll need: Bachelor's degree or higher in a relevant technical discipline or equivalent experience. 7-10 years of product management experience, at least 5 leading developer-facing products and/or platforms Experience mentoring / leading a product team or cross-functional team Full stack "operator": ability to both create and execute the business and product strategy; with clear objectives, but limited, ambiguous, or varied direction Ability to operate cross-functionally, leading and influencing colleagues, and ultimately leading to timely tactical decision making to advance our objectives Data-driven approach and excellent analytical skills with a strong understanding of how data and modeling can drive focus and results Superior communication skills, written and verbal. Experience presenting to senior-most company leadership Experience delivering quality software that solves business and user needs Passion for your customers! You do right by them, always Nice to have: Advanced engineering or data science degree Experience as a developer Experience in a cold start business or startup environment; entrepreneurial mindset Experience in the financial services sector or another highly regulated industry Experience owning and managing a P&L Compensation and Benefits The base pay range for this role is listed below. Final base pay offer will be determined based on individual factors such as the candidate's experience, skills, and location. To view all of our comprehensiveand competitivebenefits, visit our Benefits at SoFipage! SoFi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, breastfeeding, and conditions related to breastfeeding), gender, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, ancestry, age (40 or over), physical or medical disability, medical condition, marital status, registered domestic partner status, sexual orientation, genetic information, military and/or veteran status, or any other basis prohibited by applicable state or federal law. The Company hires the best qualified candidate for the job, without regard to protected characteristics. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. New York applicants: Notice of Employee Rights SoFi is committed to embracing diversity. As part of this commitment, SoFi offers reasonable accommodations to candidates with physical or mental disabilities. If you need accommodations to participate in the job application or interview process, please let your recruiter know or email accommodations@sofi.com. Due to insurance coverage issues, we are unable to accommodate remote work from Hawaii or Alaska at this time. Internal Employees If you are a current employee, do not apply here - please navigate to our Internal Job Board in Greenhouse to apply to our open roles.