Product Manager - New Vertical (ex-founder or ex-private equity)

The role

You will build Kovo's next consumer financial product from zero to one. This involves choosing a vertical, designing, building, launching, and running the business line.

What you will do

• Prototype candidate verticals and test them with real customers
• Model CAC payback, loss rates and margin for each candidate
• Bring founders a clear recommendation with evidence
• Work with legal and compliance on the version with the fewest licenses
• Ship the first version including customer flows, integrations, events and experiments
• Partner with backend engineering on the ledger and money movement
• Own the vertical's metrics including conversion, losses, payback and retention
• Own the technical side of partner and vendor integrations
• Design the cross-sell offer between this vertical and the credit builder vertical

Required qualifications

• Founder, co-founder, or founding engineer who owned a product end to end, or private equity, growth equity, credit investing or strategic finance followed by an early operator role at a fintech
• Taken a consumer product from zero to one
• Consumer fintech experience in lending, payments, cash advance, banking, cards, or similar
• Worked inside a bank or lending partnership program
• Ability to pull numbers in SQL and product analytics
• Clear, short writer
• Comfortable in a high-intensity, remote role

Nice to have

• Shipped production code recently, in TypeScript, React, or similar
• Based in Austin, TX

About the company

Kovo is expanding access to financial tools for people historically excluded from the traditional credit system. The company is backed by Inspired Capital and Homebrew.