Product Manager - Neobank

Why is this role awesome - It’s a unique opportunity to launch one of the first neo-banks in India. It is a 0-to-1 product opportunity to build for India’s next billion users that would serve as a massive leap in our journey to become a digital bank.

About Branch

Branch delivers world-class financial services to the mobile generation. With offices in the United States, Nigeria, Kenya, and India, Branch is a for-profit socially conscious company that uses the power of data science to reduce the cost of delivering financial services in emerging markets. We believe that everyone everywhere deserves fair financial access. The rapid spread of smartphones presents an opportunity for the world’s emerging middle class to access banking options and achieve financial flexibility.

Branch’s mission-driven team is led by the founder and former CEO of Kiva.org. The company presents a rich opportunity for our team members to drive meaningful growth in rapidly evolving and changing markets. In 2019, Branch announced our Series C and has garnered more than $100M in funding with investments from leading Silicon Valley firms including Andreessen Horowitz, Trinity Capital, Foundation Capital, Visa, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

As a company, we are passionate about our customers, fearless in the face of barriers, and driven by data. As a product-driven org, we value bottom-up innovation and decentralized decision-making. We believe the best ideas can come from anyone in the company, and create an environment where everyone feels empowered to propose solutions to the challenges we face. As a Product Manager, you will help the team achieve its goals through deep product work and servant-style leadership.

We value diversity and are committed to providing an inclusive working environment where human beings of all backgrounds can thrive.

About the job

Branch launched its lending business in India in early 2019 and has seen rapid adoption and growth. We want to make headway into our mission of becoming a full-service digital bank by building a new neo-bank product. Product Manager of the Neo-bank team is a unique opportunity to start from scratch and launch one of the first neo-banks for India’s next billion users, a segment underserved by even the most aggressive consumer internet companies.

Here are some things you’ll do

- Help shape the strategy, roadmap, and execution of our Neo-bank product.

- Lead cross-functional engineering projects to build and launch our new product, find product market fit, and grow the product.

- Discover deep customer insights to identify, evaluate, scope, and launch compelling new features to find product market fit.

- Lead the entire lifecycle of product development around this new product. This encompasses everything from researching, shaping the strategy, prioritizing the right MVP scope, creating detailed specs, to managing the execution and timeline of releases.

- Draw insights from experiments, data exploration, user feedback, and market research to inform project prioritization and feature design.

- Work closely with external partners and internal stakeholders such as design, research, engineering, marketing, analytics, and operations teams to define projects, triage bugs, update progress across the company, and set quarterly strategies and milestones.

- Set ambitious goals for yourself and for the team. Manage team workflow to ship deliverables on time.