Product 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 Product Manager leads core product management responsibilities for a defined product area(s) with growing strategic input and autonomy. The Product Manager owns end-to-end delivery of features within assigned product area(s), leads feature area strategy with growing independence, and may require execution of more than one initiative in parallel.

What you will do:

Core Product Management

• Develop business cases by analyzing customer impact, summarizing qualitative and quantitative insights, and documenting assumptions; prepare benefit assessments by analyzing ROI, including build vs buy analysis, customer value, regulatory or operational impact, and competitive positioning; recommend strategic prioritization across teams

• Own the team backlog for assigned area(s) by evaluating customer value, regulatory requirements, technical constraints, competitive considerations, and business impact; make trade-off decisions

• Make trade-off decisions between feature requests, technical debt, and compliance needs for a defined product area by balancing customer value, technical feasibility, and regulatory impact

• Lead as primary content authority for product features during SAFe ceremonies including PI Planning, solution demos, and inspect & adapt workshops; communicate feature intent, clarify requirements, and align stakeholders on priorities

Competitive Insights

• Monitor competitive releases and emerging solutions to assess threats and opportunities; recommend strategic responses for product area

• Analyze usage data, win/loss data, and competitive intelligence to identify differentiation opportunities and inform product area strategy

Integrations & Partnerships

• Manage integrations and own integration strategy for a defined product area, ensuring functional, compliance, and performance requirements are met

• Inform and support the definition for integration standards, API patterns, and partnership models that support cross-product capabilities

• Evaluate and recommend third-party solutions that strengthen product strategy for a product or major initiative; understand and manage strategic partner relationships with the support of the Partnerships Team to influence roadmaps

Team Leadership & Development

• Share knowledge and experience; provide guidance on PM practices and career development

• Contribute to hiring