Product Manager, Consumer Lending Technology

Role Overview

• Own the roadmap for your product area within MeridianLink Consumer, from discovery through delivery and iteration.
• Lead continuous discovery through customer interviews, usage analytics, and collaboration with financial institution partners to identify high-value problems worth solving.
• Write crisp, well-reasoned PRDs and user stories that give engineering teams the clarity they need to build with confidence.
• Drive agile delivery ceremonies and maintain a healthy, well-prioritized backlog aligned to team OKRs.
• Define and monitor product KPIs for your area, using data to inform prioritization and demonstrate business impact.
• Work closely with fellow PMs on the Consumer team to ensure coherence across product areas and alignment on platform-level decisions.
• Partner with Engineering, UX, Sales, Customer Success, and Compliance to drive alignment and unblock delivery.
• Serve as the product expert for your domain — representing customer needs internally and translating them into clear requirements.
• Contribute to team-level strategy discussions and help shape the broader Consumer product roadmap over time.
• Identify opportunities to incorporate modern capabilities — such as AI/ML-assisted decisioning, intelligent automation, and API extensibility — into your product area.
• Stay current on consumer lending trends, fintech competitive dynamics, and regulatory developments (CFPB, TILA, ECOA, fair lending) relevant to your domain.
• Champion thoughtful UX and API-first design patterns that keep MeridianLink Consumer competitive with emerging fintech challengers.

Requirements

• 2+ years of product management experience.
• Proven track record of owning a product area end-to-end — discovery, definition, delivery, and iteration.
• Experience managing API-integrated software products with multiple stakeholder groups.
• Strong command of agile methodologies and modern product discovery practices (Jobs-to-Be-Done, continuous discovery, etc.).
• Analytical mindset — comfortable using data and product analytics tools to drive decisions and measure outcomes.
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills; able to simplify complexity and align diverse stakeholders.
• Deep customer empathy — you've invested real time understanding users and translated those insights into shipped improvements.
• Domain experience in consumer lending, loan origination systems (LOS), or financial institution software (strongly preferred).
• Familiarity with API/integration products — you understand developer needs and how platform extensibility creates value (strongly preferred).
• Exposure to AI/ML in product contexts — you've thought carefully about where intelligent automation adds genuine value vs. hype (strongly preferred).
• Experience working with or selling to banks, credit unions, or other regulated financial institutions (strongly preferred).
• Working knowledge of consumer lending regulations (TILA, ECOA, fair lending, CFPB guidance) (strongly preferred).

Benefits

• Insurance coverage (medical, dental, vision, life, and disability)
• Flexible paid time off
• Paid holidays
• 401(k) plan with company match
• Remote work