Method’s mission is to make personal finance more autonomous. With Method’s APIs, financial institutions, credit unions, banks, and financial management apps can embed loan repayment, data, balance transfers, and bill pay automation into their user journey. As a result, Method is improving accessibility and control over financial information via open finance.
We’re a Series A start-up and are backed by our partners, advisors, and investors from Andreessen Horowitz, Truist Ventures, Y Combinator, Ardent Ventures, Abstract Ventures, SV Angel, Truebill, Upstart, and more.
About Our Team
As a small tight-knit team, we value finding team members who are passionate about building, scaling, all while having fun together! While we have our own roles to fill, we often find ourselves wearing multiple hats. No day is the same when you’re building from scratch. Some of us are based at Method HQ in Austin, TX and others are based in Washington D.C.
To learn more about us, check out our blog! https://methodfi.com/blog
Location: Hybrid-model in Austin, TX. We offer relocation assistance if needed!
## The Impact
As the Founding Product Manager, you’ll have the opportunity to lead product strategy from the ground up and work directly with the co-founders. We’re looking for a candidate who wants to drive product success initiatives forward through thoughtful partnerships, strong organization and product management skills, and outstanding execution.
## What you’ll do
- Partner closely with engineering, accurately identifying product trade-offs between scope, timelines, quality, understanding the Method’s technical design, and predicting roadblocks
- Partner with the co-founders to ensure Method’s vision aligns best for our customers whether they are prospective or already utilizing Method’s API
- Establish best practices to address customer needs, communicating them clearly to all stakeholders in a timely manner
- Monitor product performance, gather statistical data and insights to evaluate productivity
- Gather all core business problems and requirements from existing customers, prospective customers, and other strategic initiatives
- Monitor industry trends and competition to shape product decisions and strategy
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in software engineering, product management, or engineering/product-adjacent roles
- Sophisticated technical acumen and understanding of underlying drivers and strategy of fintech APIs
- Have the ability to work with a high degree of autonomy but also balancing out working dynamically with a wide range of people, both internally and externally
- Have the motivation and flexibility to work well in a high-growth environment where things change quickly
- Have strong communication skills, both verbal and written, and be able to work under pressure to solve technical problems for Method’s customers
Extra awesome
- Experience in Financial Services / FinTech
- Experience working at a smaller stage company / start-up environment
Posted on Mar 17, 2024.
