About this role
Bankrate is redefining the future of financial decision-making. As a Lead Product Manager, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for a new team focused on expanding the mortgage offering into the realtor market, leading a cross-functional squad and managing product managers.
Responsibilities:
- Own the Realtor Entry Strategy: Define the end-to-end product vision for how realtors interact with our marketplace, expanding our platform beyond a consumer-only approach
- Disrupt the "Local Lender" Habit: Develop a clear multi-year roadmap that provides realtors with enough value (transparency, speed, and co-branding) to shift their loyalty from traditional preferred lenders to our digital marketplace
- Market Expansion: Lead the product discovery and execution for entering the realtor market, identifying the specific "hooks" that drive professional adoption
- Strategic Tradeoffs: Balance the needs of three distinct personas: the realtor (the referrer), the consumer (the borrower), and the lender (the provider)
- Partner with Engineering and Design leads to ensure strong execution health, technical quality, and appropriate sequencing of foundational vs. feature work
- Establish clear operating rhythms, decision frameworks, and success metrics that enable consistent delivery and learning
- Serve as the technical leader for a cross-functional squad of engineers (and potentially a designer), providing direction and ownership of workstreams, with the opportunity to grow into formal people management as the team scales
- Use quantitative and qualitative insights to validate strategy, guide prioritization, and iterate on the roadmap
Requirements:
- Experience in the mortgage industry, specifically understanding the realtor-lender relationship and the mortgage lifecycle
- Proven experience taking a product into a net-new market segment or launching a zero-to-one initiative within a larger organization
- Ability to work with APIs and integrations to ensure a seamless data flow between realtors, lenders, and borrowers
- Experience owning complex, interconnected platforms rather than isolated features
- Track record of driving measurable outcomes, particularly in revenue-impacting systems
- Comfort navigating ambiguity while maintaining forward momentum