Founding Product Manager at Method Financial | Y Combinator (2024)

Method Financial

Financial connectivity API for consumer liabilities

Meet Method

🔮 We built Method to propel consumer finance into the next decade. Method’s APIs are redefining financial connectivity with real-time, read-write, and frictionless access to all consumer liability data with integrated payment rails. The composability of our APIs and robust integrations into 10,000+ financial institutions allows lenders, fintechs, and other financial institutions to build products that unlock a level of autonomy never before harnessed by consumers.

We have helped 2+ million users connect 30+ million liability accounts, save them millions in interest and fees, get them access to billions of dollars in personalized loans, and earn millions of points on their purchases. We have partnered with 60+ financial institutions - including Bilt Rewards, SoFi, PenFed, Figure, Happy Money and Aven - to deliver frictionless, personalized and engaging user experiences.

We are backed by investors and advisors from Andreessen Horowitz, Y Combinator, SV Angel, Ardent Ventures, Abstract Ventures, Truist Ventures, Truebill, Upstart, and more.

About our team

As a small but fast-growing team, we value teammates 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. Our founding team is based across Austin and Washington D.C., with an office in New York.

To learn more about us, check out our <u>blog</u>!

Location : Hybrid-model in Austin, TX or NYC.

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

• Gather all core business problems and requirements from existing customers, prospective customers, and other strategic initiatives

• Be a technical problem solver who isn't afraid to get into the weeds of our technical stack

Who you are

• 5+ years of experience in product management including a background in software engineering, or engineering-adjacent roles or CS degree

• Experience in Financial Services / FinTech

• 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 and providers

Extra awesome

• Current or previous co-founder with a successful track record of building and scaling

• Experience working at a smaller stage company / start-up environment

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, Vision; basic medical plans 100% covered

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• Unlimited PTO

• Stipends for WFH setup, gym/wellness, cellphone, and continued learning

• Student Loan repayment program

• Commuter benefits 100% covered

• Lunch allowance when working from the office

• 12 weeks parental leave

• Hybrid-office stocked with snacks

• Quarterly team off-sites

<u>Disclaimer to Staffing/Recruiting Agencies:</u>
Method Financial does not accept unsolicited resumes from recruiters or employment agencies in response to our Career page or a Method Financial social media/job board post. Method Financial will not consider or agree to payment of any referral compensation or recruiter fee relating to these unsolicited resumes. Method Financial explicitly reserves the right to hire those candidate(s) without any financial obligation to the recruiter or agency. Any unsolicited resumes, including those submitted to hiring managers, are deemed to be the property of Method Financial.

Founded:2021

Team Size:24

Location:Austin, TX