Remitly

Principal Product Manager, Borrow - Remitly Financial Services

Remitly$176K — $220K *
Finance & Insurance
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 8+ years of product management experience, preferably in consumer fintech or financial services.
  • Proven track record of scaling financial products with positive impacts on retention and repayment outcomes.
  • In-depth knowledge of lending and credit dynamics, including repayment mechanics and delinquency management.
  • Experience in driving customer engagement across multiple product features, linking usage depth to retention rates.
  • AI-first mindset with a proactive approach to integrating AI tools in product development.
  • Strong quantitative skills with experience in metrics definition, SQL, and data analytics.
  • Ability to navigate regulatory compliance in financial products while maintaining product velocity.
  • Excellent communication skills coupled with an effective leadership presence in cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

  • Own the product strategy and roadmap for Remitly's borrow solutions, from onboarding to retention.
  • Manage the entire product lifecycle, ensuring quality and velocity through all development stages.
  • Design early feature activation experiences to convert onboarded customers into active users.
  • Identify and implement strategies to deepen usage of Remitly Card features beyond just borrowing.
  • Develop proactive and reactive retention strategies to maintain customer engagement and prevent defaults.
  • Define repayment user experience as a core product element that builds trust and promotes repeat borrowing.
  • Integrate AI strategies throughout the product lifecycle to enhance customer borrowing experiences.
  • Set and track success metrics to make data-driven decisions on product performance and customer engagement.
  • Conduct user research to represent customer voice in product development and strategy.

Benefits

  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance along with a 401k plan that includes company matching
  • Paid leave for parental, medical, military, and family care
  • Mental health support and family forming assistance
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Continuing education benefits and travel assistance
Full Job Description
Job Description:
About the Role
Remitly is expanding beyond cross-border remittances to build a full suite of financial products that help consumers get paid, save, spend, and borrow - all built on the trust and reliability millions of customers already place in Remitly. As Principal Product Manager for Borrow, you will own one of the most consequential pillars of this vision: giving Remitly customers access to responsible, accessible credit and borrowing solutions that meet them where they are.
This is a senior, high-ownership role. You will define the strategy and roadmap for Remitly's borrowing products - after a customer is onboarded through long-term retention and healthy repayment outcomes - while working with a cross-functional team of engineers, designers, analysts, and internal partners. You will balance product growth with responsible lending principles, building financial tools that genuinely improve customers' lives. Critically, you understand that a healthy borrowing portfolio is inseparable from overall product engagement - and you will drive usage across the full Remitly Card plan, knowing that customers who find broad value in the plan stay longer, borrow more responsibly, and represent lower risk. This position reports to the General Manager of the Borrow team.

You Will:
  • Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for Remitly's suite of borrowing solutions, spanning early feature activation post-onboarding, ongoing engagement, proactive and reactive retention, and repayment experience.
  • Own the full product lifecycle - from discovery, requirements, and design collaboration through development, testing, launch, and ongoing optimization - ensuring consistent quality and velocity at every stage.
  • Drive early feature activation for newly onboarded members - designing the experiences and triggers that convert onboarded customers into active users (sending, saving, spending and borrowing), ensuring they quickly realize the value of Remitly Card features.
  • Drive engagement across the full Remitly Card plan - identifying opportunities to deepen usage of card features beyond borrowing, partnering with adjacent product teams to connect customers to relevant value, and using cross-feature engagement as a lever for retention and portfolio health.
  • Build proactive and reactive retention strategies - designing the triggers, interventions, and experiences that keep members engaged and in good standing, and that recover at-risk members before they lapse or default.
  • Develop a clear point of view on repayment UX and outcomes, treating repayment not as a back-office function but as a core product surface that builds trust, drives repeat borrowing, and protects the health of the portfolio.
  • Champion an AI-first way of working across the product lifecycle - using AI to accelerate research synthesis, experiment design, and spec writing, while identifying where AI can create differentiated product experiences within borrowing (e.g., dynamic credit offers, personalized repayment nudges, intelligent risk signals).
  • Define success metrics and instrumentation from day one - draw rates, repayment rates, retention cohorts, and cross-feature engagement - and build the experimentation and analytics framework to make fast, confident decisions.
  • Develop a strong competitive point of view on how borrowing products are evolving for immigrant and underserved consumer segments, and translate that into product bets that differentiate Remitly.
  • Represent the voice of the customer - conducting direct user research, synthesizing qualitative and quantitative signals, and building a roadmap that the full cross-functional team can rally around.
  • Communicate roadmap, trade-offs, and portfolio health clearly to cross-functional stakeholders and executive leadership, building alignment and momentum across Remitly's broader financial services strategy.

You Have:
  • 8+ years of product management experience, with significant time in consumer fintech or financial services products - including demonstrated ownership of a full customer lifecycle.
  • A track record of scaling a financial product from early-stage through high-volume usage, with measurable impact on retention and repayment or portfolio health outcomes.
  • Deep familiarity with lending and credit product dynamics - underwriting, draw behavior, repayment mechanics, delinquency management - and a strong instinct for where product decisions drive portfolio outcomes.
  • Experience driving cross-product or platform engagement, with an understanding of how feature breadth and usage depth connect to retention and customer lifetime value.
  • An AI-first mindset - you actively use AI tools in your daily workflow to move faster and better, and you're excited to explore where AI can power smarter, more personalized borrowing experiences.
  • Strong quantitative and analytical skills - comfortable defining metrics, reading SQL and data directly, building business cases, and using experimentation rather than intuition to drive decisions.
  • Experience working alongside Risk, Compliance, and Legal on regulated financial products, with the ability to navigate complex constraints without losing product velocity.
  • Sharp product sense and design instincts - you care about the nuances of a credit or repayment flow and can articulate why a customer experience builds or erodes trust.
  • Proven leadership in cross-functional environments - you know how to align engineers, designers, analysts, risk partners, and executives around a shared strategy and execute with clarity.
  • Comfort operating at senior levels of ambiguity; you make confident decisions with incomplete information and create momentum even when the path isn't fully defined.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills. Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.


Compensation Details.The starting base salary range for this position is typically $176,000-$220,000. In the U.S., Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.

Our Benefits:
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Health, dental, and vision + 401k plan with company matching
  • Paid parental, medical, military and family care leave
  • Mental Health & Family Forming Benefits
  • Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP)
  • Continuing education and travel benefits


Our Connected Work Culture: Driving Innovation, Together

At Remitly, we believe that true innovation sparks when we come together. Our Connected Work Culture fosters dynamic in-person collaboration, where ideas ignite and challenging problems find solutions faster. For corporate team members, we have an in-office expectation of at least 50% of the time monthly, typically achieved by coming in three days a week. This creates a consistent, meaningful overlap that supports team norms and business needs. Managers also have the flexibility to set higher expectations based on their team's specific needs. These intentional in-office moments are vital for deepening relationships, fueling creativity, and ensuring your impact is felt where it matters most.

About Remitly

Remitly is a digital remittance company that provides international money transfers. The company's platform allows users to send money to family and friends in other countries using a mobile device or computer. Remitly's services are available in over 20 countries and support over 40 currencies. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
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2011

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