Senior Product Manager

<p><strong><em>*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.</em></strong></p> <p>As a Senior Product Manager, you will own major portions of the squad’s roadmap and shape its coherence. You act as the deep owner of the squad’s core domain and the creator of clarity and multi-quarter strategy. In this role, you define the "center of gravity" for major strategy components and operate with a strategic horizon of 6–18 months.</p> <p>Specifically, you will focus on Bankrate’s Supply platform ecosystem, with core ownership of components within Loantek (our pricing and product engine that underpins the home lending marketplace), BAP, and RMS. This is a high-impact platform role focused on reducing complexity, increasing scalability and reliability, and creating clarity across pricing, data, and advertiser workflows. You will help determine the best path forward to invest in our platform and innovate to support greater personalization and pre-qualification capabilities , ensuring the platform is resilient and prepared for future growth and expected 2026 refinance traffic surges.</p> <p><strong>What You’ll Do:</strong></p> <ul> <li><strong>Strategy &amp; Direction:</strong> Define multi-quarter direction and measurable outcomes, synthesizing complex insights into clear direction. Articulate a cohesive modernization roadmap from a product lens to handle increased scale, complexity, and volume across the pricing engine and supporting systems.</li> <li><strong>Cross-Functional Leadership:</strong> Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, design, and data science for complex initiatives, ensuring work is delivered with clarity, quality, and measurable impact. Partner with Engineering and Design leads to ensure strong execution health, technical quality, and appropriate sequencing of foundational vs. feature work.</li> <li><strong>Roadmap Alignment:</strong> Create structure and alignment across multiple roadmap streams. Frame strategic tradeoffs explicitly and guide investment decisions using customer needs, advertiser outcomes, platform health, and business impact.</li> <li><strong>Problem Framing:</strong> Maintain appropriate distance from specific solutions as scope increases, focusing instead on underlying problems, constraints, and system behavior.</li> <li><strong>Validation &amp; Metrics:</strong> Define success metrics tied to platform scalability, pricing effectiveness, advertiser outcomes, and system reliability. Use quantitative and qualitative insights to guide prioritization and validate outcomes.</li> <li><strong>Customer Connection:</strong>