Lead Product Manager | Bankrate

Red Ventures

9h • $145,000 - $200,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Lead Product Manager, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for a brand new team tasked with taking our market-leading mortgage offering to the largest referral source for lenders, realtors.
This role leads end-to-end product strategy ownership with people leadership. You will lead a cross-functional squad of engineers and designers in addition to the direct management of product managers as the team scales. This role will act in a start-up type environment where speed to learnings is key. You will set a 12–24 month product vision to bring impactful savings to borrowers who find their lender through realtor referrals. This is a high-speed, high-impact role focused on taking a market-leading solution into a new, fragmented, and sizeable market.

Requirements

• Experience in the mortgage industry, specifically understanding the realtor-lender relationship and the mortgage lifecycle.
• Proven experience taking a product into a net-new market segment or launching a zero-to-one initiative within a larger organization.
• Ability to work with APIs and integrations to ensure a seamless data flow between realtors, lenders, and borrowers.
• Experience owning complex, interconnected platforms rather than isolated features.
• Track record of driving measurable outcomes, particularly in revenue-impacting systems.
• Comfort navigating ambiguity while maintaining forward momentum.

Responsibilities

• Own the Realtor Entry Strategy: Define the end-to-end product vision for how realtors interact with our marketplace, expanding our platform beyond a consumer-only approach
• Disrupt the "Local Lender" Habit: Develop a clear multi-year roadmap that provides realtors with enough value (transparency, speed, and co-branding) to shift their loyalty from traditional preferred lenders to our digital marketplace.
• Market Expansion: Lead the product discovery and execution for entering the realtor market, identifying the specific "hooks" that drive professional adoption.
• Strategic Tradeoffs: Balance the needs of three distinct personas: the realtor (the referrer), the consumer (the borrower), and the lender (the provider).
• Partner with Engineering and Design leads to ensure strong execution health, technical quality, and appropriate sequencing of foundational vs. feature work.
• Establish clear operating rhythms, decision frameworks, and success metrics that enable consistent delivery and learning.
• Serve as the technical leader for a cross-functional squad of engineers (and potentially a designer), providing direction and ownership of workstreams, with the opportunity to grow into formal people management as the team scales.
• Use quantitative and qualitative insights to validate strategy, guide prioritization, and iterate on the roadmap

Benefits

• Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision)
• Life Insurance
• Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Holiday Pay
• 401(k) with match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program
• Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential. That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy. Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees