Senior Product Manager

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Position can be remote. (We are not able to move forward with candidates that live in: CA, NY, NJ, IL, WA, OR and MUST BE LOCATED WITHIN THE UNITED STATES)

WHY WORK AT THE SAVINGS GROUP?

At The Savings Group, we do more than help borrowers save money on their car payments. We’re on a mission to empower consumers to take charge of their finances. We’ve built the most diversified digital marketplace for auto finance, connecting borrowers to a marketplace of financial institutions the same way Expedia connects travelers to airlines and hotels. Through our network of more than 200 lenders across all 50 states, we deliver unprecedented choice, transparency, and value to our consumers. So far, we’ve empowered over 750,000 borrowers to save over $3.5B on their car loans… and we’re just getting started!

Our leadership team is made up of industry veterans with decades of experience in technology and finance. The Savings Group’s brands AUTOPAY, RateGenius and Tresl have been in operation as far back as 1999 and have come together to create accelerated momentum over the last few years. Our 1,300+ team members are based predominantly in our Denver headquarters and Austin hubs.

We’re moving fast and looking for folks who are passionate about rolling up their sleeves with like-minded teammates to help to grow this dynamic business by connecting consumers around the country to our platform.

We come from all kinds of backgrounds and experiences to create something new: A better way to do car loans. We support a casual work environment, positive work culture, and develop our talent to become successful leaders. Our core values of Hard Work, Optimism, Growth, and Integrity help us create a collaborative team mindset and a better place to work. And our remote job postings are actually remote. We value our people doing great work wherever they happen to be

About the Role

The Senior Product Manager is responsible for overseeing the product vision from a high level (how does this feature make sense for where we want to be in six months) to a low execution level (how does styling this button this way impact key metrics through this function). The Senior Product Manager’s role is to shape and execute the product functionality and features that meet the department goals, engage in business case development, and ensure adherence to the Agile process. This role will work closely with the director of product to continue to grow the product practice in best practices and thought leadership while providing guidance to the product owners working in conjunction with the PM on initiatives and delivering on the tactical day to day.

This role is specifically for our internal employee portal team where you will be working in APIs and a heavily data and integration focused environment. Being more technically focused to talk through the complex innerworkings across systems with developers and relay those to key stakeholders in easy-to-understand terms is key to the success of this role.

What You’ll Do

Understand and demonstrate the principles of AUTOPAY’s Mission, Vision, and Values.

· Being a true servant leader through empathy and engagement with the team, stakeholders, and users of our products.

· Define and communicate the overall vision, objectives, and goals of the business. Articulate the product needs. Create, refine, socialize and prioritize the Product backlog.

· Overseeing the delivery of Product Backlog by presenting backlog to the team; creating, owning, and refining well-formed user stories and artifacts that describe and detail new products, features, and services based on feedback from the team, creating acceptance criteria with the team and accepting stories as they’re completed.

· Work daily with stakeholders to refine, groom, and accept stories and bugs for implementation.

· Create UAT test cases, organize and facilitate UAT testing, track test results, and work with the team to resolve issues.

· Represents the team, when needed, to external stakeholders, leaders, and other teams to ensure alignment and understanding progress of the product.

· Ability to work independently with minimal guidance in an agile environment.

· Identify opportunities for process optimization and redesign that will allow us to accomplis