Product Manager

Company Description

Candidly was founded in 2016 to flip the script on what it means to plan, borrow, repay, and save for college. Today, we’re the category leader with the market’s most comprehensive AI-driven student debt and savings optimization platform. We partner with hundreds of top employers, financial institutions, and retirement record keepers, positioning Candidly to serve more than 35 million Americans. 

We’re already achieving incredible results — to date, we’ve helped our users get on track to eliminate more than $1.8B in student debt and pay off their loans 175,000 years quicker — and we’re seeking movers, shakers, innovators, and problem solvers to help take our mission even further. 

Candidly is a high-growth, Series B startup, funded by leading investors including Altos Ventures, Aflac, Salesforce Ventures, UBS, Equal Opportunity Ventures, Impact Engine, Rethink Impact, Unum, and Cercano Management. Our fully remote, international team of 70 (and counting) includes alumni from Google, UBS, Twitter, Plaid, Prudential, LendingTree, Morgan Stanley, Deutsche Bank, and more.

Benefits: Candidly is remote by design with benefits that support our people's physical, financial and emotional wellbeing. We offer comprehensive medical, dental and vision plans, 401(k), financial wellness, behavioral health and employee lifestyle support programs, life and disability insurance, parental benefits, student loan repayment program and paid time off including 16 hours volunteer time off.

 

Location: Candidly works remotely by design. There is no physical office building.

 

Job Description

• Defining and evolving the vision, roadmap, and impact for the client platform. We are on a mission to provide a friction-free experience for our clients throughout their journey with us!
• Partner with other cross functional teams and work directly with clients to ensure the product vision is aligned with their needs. 
• Help evolve our product culture, discipline, and practices.
• Lead brief/specifications/tickets to get started on new projects.
• Participate in all aspects of our product development lifecycle from discovery, research, user journeys, sprint ceremonies, feedback from support/customer success, to building with engineering, and shipping features often and iteratively.
• Analyze and create KPI dashboards, and gain meaningful insights to drive successful iterations and identify opportunities.
• Test upcoming releases, bug scrub, and prioritize the backlog.
• Live in JIRA and break down projects into executable phases/tasks with engineering.
• Coordinate on the release management on testing and rollout plans.
• Communicate across teams regarding the status of projects and post-launch results.
• Competitive analysis and feature breakdowns.
• Collaborate with Sales on new opportunities and advise on new client engagement.
• Do something that you haven't done before and have fun learning a new skill.

What we’re looking for

• 4+ years’ experience working as a Product Manager in a B2C or B2B SaaS software company with Bachelor’s degree or equivalent of related experience. 
• Demonstrable experience driving growth with B2B platforms with launching & iterating on successful products.
• Ability to leveraging research and data to create hypotheses into solutions and outcomes.
• Work with sales and marketing on the go-to-market strategy, helping them understand the product positioning, key benefits, and target customers.
• Open mind and flexibility, new approaches and information are opportunities to evolve original spec into a better experience.
• You are pragmatic and decisive with product development decisions in the context of business realities.
• Acts as an owner and strives to make it better regardless of current role.
• Passion to innovate and invent tomorrow, we are building the future of financial wellness and dare to dream big!
• Self-motivated, does not seek perfection but makes improvements to our products, company, and way we work.
• Expertise in FinTech especially within financial wellness.
• Experience with A/B testing, funnel & conversion analysis tools.

 

Background and EEOC

Candidly offers for employment are conditioned upon satisfactory completion of our employment screening process (including, but not limited to, a review of past employment and education records, background investigation, and/or credit check & fingerprints).

Candidly strives to foster an environment where every employee can succeed. As an Equal Opportunity Employer we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, sexual orienta