Senior Product Manager
Forward Financing is one of the fastest-growing fintech companies in Boston for the past three years, as recognized by Boston Business Journal, Inc. Magazine, and Deloitte Fast 500. We help small businesses spend less time finding capital and more time helping their customers and growing their businesses. Our mission is to create an extraordinary FinTech company so that our customers and our people can reach their full potential. We accomplish this by investing in our people, technology, and customer experience – with long-term success in mind. Forward Financing strives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion so that each employee feels comfortable bringing their authentic self to work.
As a Senior Product Manager, you will be reporting to our Director of Product during a time of dramatic growth, working with agile development teams, collaborating with stakeholders to tackle sophisticated business problems, innovating ways to scale our business, improving the user experience of our products, and implementing best product practices.
In this role you will:
- Collaborate on product strategy, vision, and roadmap, taking ideas from ideation through post-launch
- Connect with analytics team and operational stakeholders to use data to identify insights to drive decisions
- Coordinate with design teams to produce prototypes, work with engineering and project management to execute strategic ideas, and partner with business stakeholders across the organization to implement impactful changes
- Obtain requirements and feedback from stakeholders, and adjust product specifications as needed
- Utilize product strategies to identify creative opportunities to improve our speed, quality, and internal users experience
- Ensure product development is on track, and coordinate with leadership to adjust schedules as required
- Thoughtfully evaluate tradeoffs between speed, quality, and cost
- Facilitate and share standard methodologies, proven experience, documentation, and learning
- Build on the already incredible Forward Financing culture, and serve as a positive ambassador for the technology team
Requirements:
- 3+ years experience in Product Management; 7+ years professional experience
- Experience working in an agile environment is a plus
- Experience managing and mentoring team members, and assuming leadership responsibilities
- Comfort with ambiguity, and creative problem solving strategies
- Strong interpersonal, communication, and presentation skills
- Strong organizational skills, with multi-team planning and coordination experience
Forward Financing Core Values:
- People First – We build relationships and genuinely care about each other.
- We Before Me – We prioritize team success over individual success.
- Be Candid – We are authentic, transparent, and direct.
- Do the Right Thing – We act with integrity and we don’t cut corners.
- Relentless Improvement – We push ourselves, never settling for the best we did yesterday.
- Be Positive – We are optimistic and assume positive intent.
About Us:
Forward Financing is a Boston-based fintech company that provides fast, flexible, and reliable capital to small businesses nationwide. With a simple online application, business owners can trust that Forward Financing works to get them approvals within minutes, funding within hours, and personalized support when they need it most.
Since 2012, Forward Financing has provided over $1 billion in financing to more than 26,000 small businesses. Consistently recognized as an industry leader, the company is A+ rated by the Better Business Bureau and receives top ratings across all major customer review platforms. Forward Financing has been consistently named by Boston Business Journal and Built in Boston as one of the best places to work in Massachusetts.
Forward Financing actively promotes a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion in all we do. We are committed to creating a workplace where trust and respect are paramount and all employees feel valued, heard, and accepted. By embracing diversity of thought, background, and identity, we will continue to become a stronger team and a better organization.
We are a diverse and driven group of over 100 people, located in the heart of Boston’s Financial District. Our employees come to work knowing they are helping thousands of small businesses while advancing their own careers. If this sounds like something you’d like to be a part of, learn more about our leadership team and our open opportunities.
Perks & Benefits:
At Forward Financing, we believe that if our company succeeds, all of our employees succeed too. We offer a comprehensive benefits package including but not limited to; medical, dental, vision and commuter benefits along with a flexible time off policy, 401k match, gym reimbursement, paid volunteering days, annual professional development budget, and charitable donation match.
When we aren’t busy with a Zoom meeting, supporting our customers, or working on a project, you can likely find us taking part in a scavenger hunt, getting overly competitive in a trivia game, or celebrating our team wins together!