Greenlight is the leading family fintech company on a mission to help parents raise financially smart kids. We proudly serve more than 6 million parents and kids with our award-winning banking app for families. With Greenlight, parents can automate allowance, manage chores, set flexible spend controls, and invest for their family’s future. Kids and teens learn to earn, save, spend wisely, and invest.
At Greenlight, we believe every child should have the opportunity to become financially healthy and happy. It’s no small task, and that’s why we leap out of bed every morning to come to work. Because creating a better, brighter future for the next generation depends on it.We are looking for a VP of Product to lead our Core Products. Our core products fall under two broad categories - Family Banking and Family Safety. This team enables our families to not just learn about financial services but also powers ways for kids to Earn, Save and Invest while keeping the family safe.
This is the perfect opportunity for a passionate leader with knowledge of financial products to build intuitive and simple user experiences, which even kids can easily understand. In this role, you will partner closely with multiple departments to define, design and execute the banking and safety product roadmaps. The ideal candidate will be a hands-on leader who can execute, hire and develop great product managers. You will be responsible for driving product vision/strategy, hitting business goals and effectively communicating across the teams and up to executive leadership.
Your day-to-day:
- Lead a team of Product Directors and Managers focused on driving engagement on the existing product portfolio, as well as conceiving, building, and launching new capabilities aligned with Greenlight’s longer term mission and growth objectives.
- Partner with cross functional stakeholders to design and set the strategy and roadmaps for Greenlight’s core products.
- Communicate progress, value, and blockers to the wider business, including executive leadership.
- Manage, coach and grow a team of product managers enabling their ultimate success.
- Build strong product development processes that enable efficient teams and innovative products.
- Ensure teams are successfully managing their priorities, backlogs, requirements, and shipping incremental enhancements to Greenlight families.
- Provide Product Operations support, which can include off hour work to support any urgent issues.
What you’ll bring to the team:
- 10+ years of product management experience.
- Prior experience in leading fintech products like Earn, Save, Invest, Debit and Credit.
- Highly technical, including experience and comfort with technical decision making and tradeoffs in partnership with Engineering
- Deep experience and track record of success in building and growing products that have high user engagement.
- Highly collaborative and capable of managing large, complex, cross-functional projects.
- Strong communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally to align stakeholders on the goals and behaviors required for success.
- Experience working in regulated industries that requires coordination across functional areas including legal and compliance.
- Bachelor’s degree in STEM required and Master’s in engineering/business would be a plus.
- Experience managing vendor relationships is also a plus.
Work perks at Greenlight:
- Medical, dental, vision, and HSA match
- Paid life insurance, AD&D, and disability benefits
- Traditional 401k with company match and Roth IRA
- Unlimited PTO
- Paid company holidays and pop-up bonus holidays
- Wellness & professional development stipends
- Mental health resources
- 1:1 financial planners
- Fertility healthcare
- 100% paid parental and caregiving leave, plus cleaning service and meals during your leave
- Flexible WFH, both remote and in-office opportunities
- Fully stocked kitchen, catered lunches, and occasional in-office happy hours
- Employee resource groups
Our stance on salariesGreenlight provides a competitive compensation package with a market-based approach to pay and will vary depending on your location, experience and skill set. The total compensation package for this position will also include a discretionary performance bonus, equity rewards, medical benefits, 401K match, and more. Greenlight conducts continuous compensation evaluations across departments and geographies to ensure we are keeping our pay current and competitive.The estimated base pay range for this position in (NY, CA, WA): $210,000- 290,000The estimated base pay range for this position in (CO): $210,000-270,00
Who we are:
It takes a special team to aim for a never-been-done-before mission like ours. We’re looking for people who love working together because they know it makes us stronger, people who look to others and ask, “How can I help?” and then “How can we make this even better?” If you’re ready to roll up your sleeves and help parents raise a financially smart generation, apply to join our team.Greenlight is an equal opportunity employer and will not discriminate against any employee or applicant based on age, race, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition (including pregnancy, childbirth, or a medical condition related to pregnancy or childbirth), genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law.Apply for this job
