Lead Product Manager | Bankrate

*This role is open to remote or hybrid candidates (East Coast preference), with hybrid being central to our New York, NY or Charlotte area offices. Must be able to work Eastern Standard Time hours.

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As a Lead Product Manager, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for a brand new team tasked with taking our market-leading mortgage offering to the largest referral source for lenders, realtors.

This role leads end-to-end product strategy ownership with people leadership. You will lead a cross-functional squad of engineers and designers in addition to the direct management of product managers as the team scales. This role will act in a start-up type environment where speed to learnings is key. You will set a 12–24 month product vision to bring impactful savings to borrowers who find their lender through realtor referrals. This is a high-speed, high-impact role focused on taking a market-leading solution into a new, fragmented, and sizeable market.

What You’ll Do:

• 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

What We’re Looking For:

• 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. 

Compensation:

This range reflects total cash compensation, which may include base salary only or base salary plus target bonus, depending on the role. Where eligible, equity may also be offered separately and not included below. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications.

• Total Cash Compensation Range: $145,000 – $200,000 per year

Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements.

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential.  That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy.  Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

Who We Are:

Bankrate is redefining the future of financial decision-making. For nearly five decades, we’ve empowered tens of millions of consumers to make smarter financial choices and helped hundreds of leading financial institutions grow. Today, we’re evolving from a marketplace into a next-generation technology platform—underpinne