Staff Product Manager – Lending Systems
Job Description: • Define the vision, strategy, and roadmap for Mercury’s lending systems and infrastructure. • Build the core platform that powers loan origination, underwriting, servicing, and repayment across a range of lending products. • Partner with engineering, risk, design, data science, and operations to design scalable systems that balance automation with resilient controls. • Establish the technical and product foundations to support new credit and lending products, including decisioning workflows, data integrations, repayment rails, and compliance features. • Collaborate with banking partners and internal stakeholders to ensure lending products are regulatory-compliant and operationally sound. • Prioritize areas of investment using customer insights, market research, and data-driven decision-making. • Set and track success metrics for lending system health, adoption, and customer impact. • Create reusable capabilities that amplify the speed and consistency of launching future lending products. Requirements: • 10+ years of product management or aligned experience, with at least 4+ years in lending, credit, or financial systems. • Experience building complex systems or platforms from scratch in a fintech or financial services environment. • Strong understanding of lending lifecycles (origination, underwriting, servicing, repayment) and associated risk/compliance considerations. • Technical fluency; ability to dive deep with engineers while simplifying complexity for business and compliance stakeholders. • A systems mindset - seeing lending not just as features but as interconnected flows of data, risk, operations, and customer experience. • Proven ability to balance customer empathy with rigorous business, compliance, and operational requirements. • Track record of delivering internal platforms or tools that enable speed, scalability, and efficiency across teams. • Comfort operating in ambiguity and setting direction in greenfield product areas. Benefits: • The total rewards package at Mercury includes base salary, equity, and benefits. • Our salary and equity ranges are highly competitive within the SaaS and fintech industry and are updated regularly using the most reliable compensation survey data for our industry. • We are committed to providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities or special needs. Apply tot his job