Director, Product Management (Consumer) (New York)

About the Company

Valons mission is to empower every homeowner. We believe the journey of home ownership starts when you get your keys, but lasts far beyond. Were creating a world where home ownership comes with ease, security, and financial know-how. Our growing team of engineers, operators, product enthusiasts, and experienced servicing professionals are leveraging technology to fundamentally improve the homeownership experience. Through mortgage servicingthe process of paying off ones mortgageValon is taking the first step in transforming the industry one homeowner, and lender, at a time.

About Valon

Valons mission is to empower every homeowner. We believe the journey of homeownershipbegins when you receive your keysbut lasts far beyond. At Valon, were building technologythat reimagines mortgage servicing, starting with a platform that makes managing a mortgagesimple, transparent, and stress-free. Were a growing team of engineers, operators, productleaders, and servicing experts working to transform the industry one homeowner, and lender, ata time.

The Product team at Valon is focused on designing and scaling a next-generation platform thatdelivers an exceptional experience for homeowners while enabling operational excellence forour servicing teams. We work at the intersection of regulation, finance, andtechnologybalancing the need for compliance and controls with the opportunity to builddelightfully simple, transparent tools for consumers.

About the Role

Were looking for a Director of Product Management to lead the vision, strategy, and execution for Valons consumer-facing product portfolio. Valon has a relationship with our users around homeownership and more generally over financial wellbeing. Mortgage servicing provides structural advantages for providing new products (often financial, often commodity) with cost, conversion, and marketing advantages. Even better, we are usually saving people money.

This includes growing our substantial lending business (including working up funnel to education and engagement pre-lending, building new vertical segments like debt consolidation), partnering with our nascent insurance business (focused on property insurance today but with broad opportunities and tail-winds), building our mobile apps, and launching new 0 to 1 consumer products for millions soon tens of millions of homeowners.

We're looking for a seasoned product leader who has worked on complex consumer SaaS products (ideally in a highly regulated domain such as Fintech) to take Valon's nascent consumer vertical from 0 to 1. Although mortgage servicing is our bread and butter, we believe consumer will be a critical growth lever for the business in the coming years and this hire will be key to shaping that strategy. In the long-run consumer has the potential to be our largest business with mortgage servicing software providing proprietary access to consumers.

This role requires a growth-centric approach, driving a large cross-functional team, clear consumer insights, and the ambition to build a new multi-billion dollar business.

Key Responsibilities

• Create our consumer strategy, the roadmap, partnerships, and how to shape, phase, and distribute via our Mortgage Servicing SaaS product
• Grow our core consumer business: lending, execution and strategy of a large and growing business that is core to mortgage servicing, continue building the best-in-class team and business through software plus insight, experimentation, and iteration to our products, marketing, sales, and operations
• Lead and grow a high-performing team of product managers, setting clear priorities, fostering a culture of innovation, and ensuring exceptional execution
• Collaborate cross-functionally with Engineering, Design, BizOps, and operations to ship impactful products at scale
• Develop deep empathy for our users, conducting research and using data to continuously improve product usability, engagement, and satisfaction as well as invest in building new 0 to 1 products

Ideal Background

• 7+ years of product management experience, with at least 3+ years leading and scaling product teams
• Demonstrated success delivering high-complexity b2c products at scale, ideally in fintech or other complex markets
• A strong track record of execution, hitting deadlines, and making customers happy
• Proven ability to drive alignment across engineering, design, and business stakeholders
• Strong product team building skills, hiring and retaining top performers
• Experience in regulated industries (e.g., finance, healthcare, insurance) is a plus but not required

What We Offer

• Compensation: Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and 401(k) plan
• Time Off: Flexible PTO, 11 company holidays, and 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave
• Growth & Development: Regular feedback cycles, leadership coaching, and learning
• Team Culture: Quarterly budgets for team outings and culture-building activities
• Commute Support: Pre-tax commuter benefits for transit and parking

This Base Compensation pay range applies to our New York City located staff and may differ according to location.

New York Base Compensation Pay Range

$233,750 - $316,250 USD

Throughout the interview process, please remember that emails will only be from valon.com emails. We won't ever be asking for any personally identifiable information during the interview process itself. Please reach out to [email protected] if you have any requests to verify the authenticity of an outreach.

Valon is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. Valon makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.

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