*PLEASE NOTE: This role requires the candidate to be in or near Charlotte, NC. Additionally, this position does not offer visa sponsorship.*

The Position

LendingTree is seeking a Senior Product Manager to identify, design, build, test and roll out consumer and partner experiences driven by our wealth of first- and third-party data.

The ideal candidate will be a consumer-first product manager with a strong and balanced technical and customer centric background in using data to create exceptional customer experiences.

This position is based in the Charlotte, NC area with a hybrid work schedule of three days per week in office (Tues, Wed, Thurs). Candidates must be located in the Charlotte area or willing to relocate to be considered for this position.

Key Responsibilities

• Articulate a clear product vision and strategy for data-powered products and features to improve consumer experiences and power business growth.
• Understand LendingTree’s customer base, and the first- and third-party data we have for them, thoroughly.
• Become the product subject matter expert and evangelist for our data infrastructure
• Collaborate closely with other product managers to understand consumer and partner problems and ensure our data solutions are focused on solving these problems; interact directly with consumers to hear problems firsthand.
• Collaborate closely with stakeholders from data science, analytics, engineering, design, compliance, legal and sales.
• Develop and maintain the product roadmap for data projects, ensuring we have a strong backlog of projects in all stages of the product lifecycle, including a healthy discovery pipeline.
• Prioritize products and features appropriately while also mitigating platform and technical dependencies.
• Liaise with internal teams to ensure timely and quality delivery of all roadmap items.
• Build quickly and fail fast, using data, critical reasoning and discernment to identify when to keep iterating and when to stop.
• Understand the external environment including potential new data sources and how our competition and others in the fintech space are using data.
• Produce high-quality materials to communicate to diverse internal audiences, translating complex technical issues into concise and understandable language. Evangelize the value of data across the organization.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required.
• Minimum of 7 years’ experience of successful B2B and/or B2C product management experience, with at least 3 years focused on data products, features and services, resulting in measurable outcomes.
• Demonstrated passion for the Fintech space, with a dedicated commitment to the industry, consumers, and leveraging data to build a robust business.
• Exceptional organizational skills and a process-oriented mindset and an ability to convert abstract business problems into actionable frameworks and solutions.
• In-depth knowledge of SCRUM and Agile principles, along with proficiency in OKR methodologies.
• Experience in using cloud data warehouses (Snowflake).
• Exceptional interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence for effective communication with internal and external partners, with a strong ability to influence and build relationships in a matrixed environment.
• Unwavering passion for solving customer problems and delivering exceptional user experiences.
• (Preferred) Knowledge of SQL.

ABOUT THE COMPANY

LendingTree is the nation’s largest online lending marketplace. That means we connect customers with multiple lenders, so they find the best deals on loans, credit cards, savings accounts and insurance. Our goal is to help people save money, and we believe the best way to do that is by giving them a way to shop for loans and compare lenders, so they make their best financial choices.

Our CEO Doug Lebda founded the company in 1996 after a frustrating house-hunting experience. In those days, we mostly helped people find good mortgage deals. Now, we help consumers find their best in personal loans, auto loans, business loans, student loans, credit cards, savings accounts, home equity loans and more.

What else you should know: 

• We’re a publicly-traded company (TREE).
• We’ve welcomed several other companies into the LendingTree family to augment our efforts at helping borrowers make their most sensible financial choices.
• We’ve built the LendingTree app and My LendingTree dashboard to give consumers tools to manage and monitor their financial health.  

Why LendingTree?

• We’re making a real difference in the financial lives of consumers. The work you’ll do here matters.
• Rare ambitious environment filled with flip-flops, t-shirts and people that take their job seriously.

INCENTIVE COMPENSATION

Eligible for annual performance bonus

BENEFITS

Medical, dental, and vision insurance and 401(k) matching

CULTURE

We’re a fast-paced company with an entrepreneurial bend. We work hard and test our products often. We’re collaborative, ambitious, candid and high-energy. Our teammates are some of the brightest, most talented people you’ll ever work with. We care more about your smarts than we do about the kinds of clothes you wear (but please, do wear clothes to work!), and we’re pretty good about rewarding innovation, creativity and the knack for just getting stuff done (we even have an award for employees called the GSD, “Get Stuff Done”). 

Come work with us!

LendingTree is the kind of company that not only promotes diversity and inclusion, we thrive because of these values. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion (or creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation or military status.

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