Senior Product Manager

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.

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.

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.

• 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

• 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