Product Lead (Travel Heavy)

As a Product Lead at Column, you'll help lay the foundation for the company's next decade of growth. You'll own some of Column's most important products and initiatives, with a heavy focus on designing the systems and tools that directly shape the ability to scale. This position is based in the San Francisco office in the Presidio, with regular travel throughout the United States, often on the road 50%+ of the time and embedded on-site for 2-4 weeks at a time. Column is a bank and a software company offering builders and developers technology-forward banking solutions.

Responsibilities

Own the product strategy, roadmap and outcomes for key products; Find the biggest bottlenecks to scale, then design and ship the products and workflows that remove them; Drive decisions around build vs. buy strategies for new tooling and systems needed to drive automation and scale; Spend time on-site with operators to understand workflows firsthand and turn what you learn into product decisions; Own execution end to end, driving timelines, alignment and accountability across the team; Act as the GM of your product area, owning product strategy, requirements and internal platform development

Requirements

7+ years of experience, including experience in product management at a high-growth technology company; An understanding of what great software and exceptional user experiences look like; A track record of shipping products that solved real operational or customer problems; A business owner's mindset, comfortable with pricing, margins, and P&L tradeoffs as well as specs and roadmaps; The ability to influence and align stakeholders with different priorities around a shared goal; A hyper-organized approach to execution, comfortable running several workstreams across teams at once; Excitement about spending ~50% of time on the road, embedded with the people and operations products serve; A scrappy, roll-up-your-sleeves attitude; Familiarity with banking or fintech is preferred but not required; An interest in becoming an expert in the banking/fintech space is a must

Nice to have

Familiarity with banking or fintech

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans, including options 100% covered for employee and 100% covered for dependents; Family planning and fertility benefits via partnership with Carrot, including reimbursement of up to $20,000 in qualified expenses; Up to $2,000 (post-tax) monthly rent subsidy for employees living within 2 miles of the office; FSA and HSA account options; 401k plan including self-directed brokerage options; Flexible time-off policy; Sabbatical Program (up to 8 weeks fully paid leave after 5 years); 100% paid parental leave (16 weeks birth mothers, 12 weeks primary caregivers, 8 weeks secondary caregivers); Up to $4,500 in annual reimbursements for backup childcare; Catered lunches and dinners for SF employees; Commuter benefits including paid transportation to and from the office; Regular team building events including annual offsite