Product Manager

The Linedata Capitalstream Product Manager is responsible for managing Capitalstream product capabilities throughout the product lifecycle from initial concept and market research through requirements definition, product design and collaboration with engineering, to deliver product plans on time and with quality. This role combines lending domain expertise with enterprise software product management. The Product Manager works closely with sales, marketing, professional services and support to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals are met while ensuring product investments support the company’s overall strategy and goals.

Essential Duties/Responsibilities

Product strategy, discovery, and planning

· Understands customer and market needs, market trends and competitive offerings based on previous experience, customer engagement, sales and marketing feedback, and market research.

· Translates customer and market insights into clearly defined product opportunities

· Provides input to the Capitalstream product roadmap aligned with company strategy, customer value, and commercial objectives.

· Utilizes structured prioritization to evaluate opportunities based on business value, customer impact, risk, dependencies, and delivery effort.

Requirements definition, solution design, and product specifications

· Leads customer interviews, discovery sessions, and cross-functional requirements workshops.

· Translates business needs into clear product requirements, functional specifications, user stories, and testing strategies.

· Maintains traceability between business objectives, requirements, functional specifications, and testing results.

· Collaborates with engineering to evaluate solution options, balancing usability, feasibility, effort, maintainability, and consistency.

· Validates requirements, functional specifications and early builds with stakeholders.

Stakeholder collaboration

· Builds customer and cross-functional relationships; obtains stakeholder alignment on objectives, requirements, solutions, and priorities.

· Serves as the product owner throughout the product lifecycle, providing support and guidance to development and quality assurance teams.

· Partners with professional services, account management and support to identify implementation and support challenges as input to product plans.

Product enablement and commercial support

· Provides product training, documentation, release notes, and implementation guidance.

· Supports sales and marketing with clear capability descriptions and value propositions.

· Contributes to product budgeting, forecasting, and investment decisions.

· Develops and supports alliances with key systems and content providers, integrators, and leading technology companies to facilitate comprehensive product solutions.

· Maintains market and technical knowledge by reviewing professional publications; establishing professional networks; participating in professional associations.

Requirements

· Bachelor’s degree (MBA preferred)

· 10+ years in Financial Services, preferably related to Commercial Lending, Risk or Underwriting

· 10+ years of experience working with Business Lending or Consumer Lending solutions

· 5+ years of experience as an enterprise software Product Manager for a Fintech

· 5+ years of experience with Agile methodologies and tools such as Jira.

· Deep knowledge of the lending lifecycle, including origination, underwriting, credit assessment and approval, pricing, collateral, documentation and funding.

· Proven experience managing the full product lifecycle, translating customer and market needs into product capabilities

· Familiarity with software release processes, DevOps, and CI/CD practices to understand delivery dependencies and collaborate with engineering.

· Team player who is most comfortable working in a fast-paced, dynamic environment

· Proven ability to collaborate, lead and influence cross-functional teams

· Excellent written and verbal communication and presentations skills.

· Working knowledge of AI capabilities, including generative and agentic AI with demonstrated ability to identify and implement relevant lending use cases

· Experience evaluating 3rd party providers, and managing 3rd party relationships.

· Strategic thinking

· Solid planning and execution skills

· Able to work independently with little supervision

· Must be willing to travel 5-10% of time

Commitment To Diversity

We recognize, celebrate, and seek to increase diversity across our organization. Diversity is an asset to organizations and linked to better performance. It is an integral part of how we do business and imperative to our success. As an international Group, we also believe that our people need to reflect our clients and local communities.

Linedata is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to complying with all federal, state, and local laws providing equal employment opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.

It is our intent to maintain a work environment that is free of harassment, discrimination, or retaliation based on an individual's race, color, religion, religious creed, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, age, sexual orientation, veteran and/or military status, protected medical leaves, domestic violence victim status, political affiliation, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local laws.