Product Managers at ZestFinance own products and services that drive substantial business results across the company.  Using analytical thinking, a strong dose of creativity and by working with the company’s world-class teams of  engineers, data scientists and business analysts, product managers drive the product roadmap from strategy to execution through a rapid, test and learn approach that generates real impact.

In this role you will: 

• Owning the success of your product as measured by business results
• Developing and driving a compelling product roadmap based on your deep understanding of customers, business goals, and interpretation of available qualitative & quantitative data
• Collaborating with multiple teams team to execute on your roadmap
• Managing the end-to-end development process, from defining & prioritizing features through to launching and iterating on those features once they are live, based on direct learnings
• Understanding credit markets and the competitive landscape for machine learning enterprise software
• Driving innovation and the adoption of new technologies and best practices

We are looking for: 

• A bachelor’s degree in engineering or similar field followed by 2+ years of experience as a product manager in the technology or financial services field working with enterprise software or SaaS solutions
• Strong organizational skills and experience in a fast-paced, constantly changing environment
• Excellent communications skills, both oral and written, with ability to influence at all levels and in various departments; a proven ability to build and maintain strong relationships
• An ability to understand complex technical architecture and machine learning techniques.
• The ability to distill requirements from multiple stakeholders into a single feature set
• Deep knowledge of the product development life-cycle. Experience running agile teams a plus
• Experience with facilitating prioritization discussions across product backlogs
• A results oriented, highly self-motivated, can-do and quick-to-learn personality

Perks and benefits: 

• People – the best part of Zest
• Robust healthcare plans, matching 401K and unlimited vacation time
• Dog friendly office with lounge areas, video games and gigantic jigsaw puzzles
• On-site gym with employee run fitness classes
• Generous family leave policy (6 month maternity leave/3 month paternity leave)
• Tuition reimbursement, conference allowance and Zest talks
• Complimentary massages, manicures, pedicures and more
• Daily catered lunches from LA’s best restaurants and fully stocked kitchen

About ZestFinance: 

ZestFinance, Inc. applies its unique credit-decisioning technology platform — based on data science and machine learning — to help lenders effectively predict credit risk so they can increase revenues, reduce risk and ensure compliance. ZestFinance was founded in 2009 by Douglas Merrill and a team of former Google employees with the mission of making fair and transparent credit available to everyone.

We are committed to diversity in hiring, professional development, and everyday discussion.  Zest is determined to hire crazy smart people who are different from each other to create broad thinking, lots of different ideas, and by extension, the best team possible.