Senior Product Manager, Banking

Clera

$160K — $180K *
Finance & Insurance
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 7+ years of product management experience, focusing on complex, technical products
  • Proven track record of delivering customer-facing financial products in regulated environments
  • Strong grasp of banking and fintech principles
  • Ability to effectively collaborate with Engineering and Design teams
  • Solid analytical skills with a focus on data-driven decisions
  • Experience navigating Risk, Compliance, and Legal aspects in product development
  • Background in fintech, financial services, or payments is preferred
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.

Responsibilities

  • Own strategy and execution for core banking products like accounts and money movement
  • Lead the experience for account opening, funding, and transactions
  • Collaborate with Engineering on payment and ledger systems
  • Conduct customer-focused research to identify key product opportunities
  • Write detailed product specifications and establish success metrics
  • Incorporate regulatory and security considerations from the start
  • Manage relationships with banking partners and third-party vendors
  • Monitor and report on product metrics like engagement and retention.

Benefits

  • Hybrid work model based in New York City
  • Opportunity to influence the financial services landscape
  • Work with a dynamic, growing fintech team
  • Engage in customer-focused product development
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams for holistic product success.
Full Job Description
About the Role

This is a senior product management role owning the core banking experience at a fast-growing fintech serving small and independent businesses. You will set the strategy and roadmap for deposit accounts, money movement, cards, and the underlying program infrastructure, partnering closely with Engineering, Design, Risk, and Compliance to ship reliable, secure financial products at scale.
What You'll Do
  • Own the strategy, roadmap, and execution for core banking products including deposit accounts, money movement, cards, and supporting program infrastructure.
  • Own the end-to-end experience for account opening, funding, deposits, and money-movement flows such as ACH, wires, transfers, bill pay, and card transactions.
  • Partner with Engineering on ledger, payments rails, and card systems that underpin those flows.
  • Run a rigorous, cohort-based discovery process grounded in customer research and usage data to surface the highest-impact opportunities.
  • Write clear specs, define success metrics, and ship reliable and secure features on a predictable cadence with Engineering and Design.
  • Embed risk, fraud, security, and regulatory requirements into the product process from day one, partnering with Risk, Compliance, and Legal.
  • Manage product relationships and integrations with banking partners and key third-party vendors.
  • Define and track product metrics across activation, engagement, retention, multi-product adoption, and reliability.
What We're Looking For
  • 7+ years of progressive product management experience, with a focus on complex, technical, or platform products.
  • A demonstrable track record of shipping customer-facing products in a high-growth, regulated environment involving money movement, payments, cards, deposits, or other financial infrastructure.
  • Strong understanding of banking and fintech fundamentals.
  • Proven ability to partner with and influence Engineering and Design, and to write clear, actionable product specs.
  • Strong analytical skills and fluency with product and cohort data.
  • Experience working with Risk, Compliance, and Legal to ship within regulatory constraints.
  • Background in fintech, financial services, banking, or payments preferred.
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience required.
Compensation & Benefits

Base salary: $160,000 to $180,000 USD annually. Visa sponsorship is not available for this role.
Location

Hybrid, based in New York City, New York, United States.

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