You are a highly motivated individual with a passion for driving impactful change in systems, processes, and technology within markets often regarded as the backbone of the US economy. As a mid to senior-level professional, you are eager to join a team of experienced leaders who value excellence, independent thinking, teamwork, and curiosity. You’re excited about playing an essential role in shaping innovative products that create real value for customers.

If you thrive in dynamic environments and want to make a tangible difference, this opportunity is for you.

What You'll Do:

Lead Product Vision: Own the product vision for your area, ensuring alignment with Polly’s overall strategy. Be the domain expert, staying ahead of market trends and continuously refining the vision to keep stakeholders aligned and informed.
Prioritize & Plan: Evaluate and prioritize product requirements in collaboration with the business. Manage the product backlog to ensure effective sprint planning and timely releases, setting and managing expectations around timelines and any necessary adjustments.
Facilitate Development: Work closely with cross-functional teams to break down and document requirements, transforming them into developer-ready user stories and acceptance criteria. Collaborate with Program Management and Engineering to ensure timely and quality product delivery.
Develop and document clear, detailed product requirements in user stories and tickets, ensuring all necessary information is available for the engineering team to efficiently implement features.
Serve as the primary point of contact for engineering, promptly addressing questions and clarifying requirements to facilitate smooth development and alignment with product goals.
Measure Success: Define success metrics for each feature and function before development begins. Continuously monitor and refine these metrics to measure product success post-launch.
Communicate Effectively: Coordinate product release communications, clearly defining expectations for engineering teams. Promote your products both internally and externally, ensuring a cohesive and compelling message.
Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with partner teams to ensure products are supported with strong go-to-market plans, from sales to onboarding to ongoing training and support.
Stay Informed: Leverage research and industry insights to deepen your understanding of customer needs and anticipate future trends. Ensure your products stay ahead of the curve.
Champion Quality: Ensure the quality of releases by coordinating testing, UAT, and obtaining necessary business sign-offs. Collaborate with compliance and other departments as needed, especially when introducing new technologies.

What You Have:

A proven ability to inspire and lead cross-functional teams with a compelling product vision.
Experience in envisioning, defining, and leading the development of innovative products, with a strong emphasis on user experience and design.
5-10 years of product management experience or equivalent responsibilities.
Hands-on experience delivering products using Agile methodologies (e.g., SCRUM).
Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills, with the ability to juggle multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to guide customers to identify pain points and inform product decisions.
Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline.
Preferred: Experience in fintech SaaS, particularly related to capital markets, loan products, and pricing.

Why Join Polly:

Transform an Industry: Join us in revolutionizing a trillion-dollar market by empowering customers with innovative self-service tools.
Experienced Leadership: Work alongside a leadership team that has a proven track record of building impactful platforms.
Growth Opportunities: Enjoy outstanding opportunities for professional growth and upward mobility within a fast-growing company.
Direct Engagement: Engage directly with decision-makers and senior business leaders who value your contributions.
Comprehensive Benefits: Receive competitive salaries, 100% paid medical/vision/dental/disability/life insurance, flexible vacation, and the option to work remotely.

Let’s get to know each other.

Polly is transforming the mortgage industry with its modern, data-driven capital markets ecosystem. Banks, credit unions, and mortgage lenders nationwide trust Polly’s revolutionary Product and Pricing Engine (PPE), Loan Trading Exchange, and actionable data and analytics to automate and optimize the entire capital markets value chain, helping their secondary teams operate faster, smarter, and more profitably. Polly was founded in 2019 by a seasoned team of technology and mortgage experts and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

To learn more, follow Polly on LinkedIn or visit www.polly.io. Polly is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, age, color, national origin, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, marital status, pregnancy status, disability status, veteran status, or any other legally protected status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

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