Sr. Product Strategy Manager

About Origence

With 30 years at the forefront of fintech innovation, we specialize in SaaS lending solutions that lead the industry. Our core mission is customer-centric, focusing on empowering Credit Unions across the United States with the tools to offer accessible, competitive lending services. We're deeply committed to enhancing the financial ecosystem for a broad network of credit unions, members and auto dealers. We invest in our greatest assets, our employees, and foster a culture of innovation and ownership through freedom and responsibility. We celebrate fiscal accountability, operational rigor and efficiency to create a sustainably healthy and robust business for the long term.

The Sr. Product Strategy Manager will play a key role in shaping the strategic direction of our account opening & fraud products by conducting market research, competitive analysis, and customer insights analysis to drive informed decision-making and product success.

This includes intimately understanding and documenting customer needs, developing strategies to deliver viable solutions, validating solutions, developing and executing go-to-market plans, tracking and reporting on sales, adoption, and utilization, and implementing feedback loops such as customer surveys and users’ groups.

What You’ll Be Doing:

Product Management Strategy

• Develop and execute the product strategy for account opening and fraud mitigation solutions to achieve revenue, growth, and market share objectives.
• Acquire and maintain working knowledge of competitive platforms including feature and functionality, market share, and pricing
• Work closely with our business and product leaders to discover and validate market problems, analyze the competitive landscape, and conduct customer interviews to define the strategy
• Document the strategy in a lean business case that describes the business outcome hypothesis, scope, risks, MVP and optional features, estimated cost to build and implement, pricing/revenue, and ROI
• Analyze buy/build/partner opportunities and recommend best-in-class partners and solutions to complement or integrate into Origence’s flagship products and platforms
• Present product vision and roadmaps to key internal groups, including executive management, and external users in a comprehensive, clear, and concise manner

Execution

• Develop, prioritize, and maintain a healthy backlog of epics for approval and execution
• Execute strategic plans in support of key objectives
• Partner with product functional and technical leaders to identify and plan capabilities necessary to meet both short- and long-term business needs
• Shepherd new products and features, as assigned, through all stages of the software development life cycle (SDLC)

Go To Market

• Work with Product Strategy, Product Management, Product Marketing, Implementations, Legal, and other internal stakeholders to create and execute go to market plans
• Ensure sufficient documentation, knowledge transfer, and t