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Senior Product Manager - AI Platform (FinTech)
MeridianlinkDigital Lending company
RemoteSenior
Centerbridge Partners
Silversmith Capital Partners
Avery Dennison
Serent Capital
Product
About the role
TL;DR
Own the AI platform layer strategy and roadmap for the lending industry.
- •We are seeking a strategic and technically fluent Senior Product Manager to own the AI platform layer that underpins our vertical SaaS offering for the lending industry.
- •You are responsible for the foundational capabilities that enable both internal engineering teams and, in select cases, external integrators to build AI-powered experiences on top of our platform.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the end-to-end product strategy and roadmap for the AI platform layer.
- •Partner with executive leadership to align AI initiatives with company-wide product vision and revenue goals.
- •Build business cases justifying R&D investment based on expected benefits.
- •Partner with principal engineers and ML infrastructure leads to make informed build-vs-buy-vs-partner decisions on foundational AI capabilities.
- •Establish and govern platform-level standards: API versioning policies, model lifecycle management, prompt versioning, and observability requirements.
- •Stay updated with the latest trends and advancements in AI and ML, to identify opportunities for innovation and incorporate relevant insights into product strategy and development.
- •Requirements Hands-on familiarity with how production of AI systems are built and operated.
- •Ability to hold a meaningful technical conversation with an ML engineer about inference latency and embedding strategies and translate those tradeoffs into crisp product decisions.
- •Experience in shipping platform capabilities, not just features, and understanding the difference: versioned APIs, backward compatibility, SLA contracts, and developer experience are as important as end-user outcomes.
- •Candidates with prior experience building software for consumer lending or mortgage—LOS platforms, automated underwriting, document intelligence, or decisioning engines—will move to the top of the queue.
- •Deep domain familiarity shortens the runway to credibility with both engineering and go-to-market teams.
Required skills
Product StrategyGo-to-MarketFeature PrioritizationCustomer DiscoveryProduct AnalyticsCompetitive AnalysisProduct OperationsGrowth StrategyMonetization StrategyJobs to Be DoneProduct-Led GrowthDatabricksKubernetesAWSGoogle Cloud
Domain expertise
fintech
Tech stack
DatabricksKubernetesAWSGoogle CloudAzureTerraformCloudFormationPulumiCI/CDDockerPrometheusGrafanaDatadogNew RelicPagerDutyNginxHAProxyOAuthJWTSAMLOWASPPenetration TestingSOC 2GDPRHIPAAVaultIAMSSOMFAGit