Product Lead

THREAD BANK • Nashville, TN

12d • Onsite

About The Position

Who We Are
Thread Bank is a digital-first financial technology community bank that aims to enhance customer engagement through innovative solutions. Thread Bank offers a modern website, a CRM system, and a mobile app to simplify banking for businesses and individuals. Our embedded banking solution helps business technology platforms provide secure banking experiences. We also partner with other banks, credit unions, and FinTechs to integrate compliant financial solutions. Thread Bank values innovation, collaboration, and flexibility, offering excellent benefits and a family-friendly culture.

What We Are Looking For
We are looking for people who thrive in a fast-paced, growth environment while remaining within regulatory boundaries. Thread Bank provides a unique opportunity to be a part of a high growth, cutting edge, fintech startup within the stable and profitable banking industry. This is an excellent opportunity for a professional looking to advance their career as the company grows.

What You’ll Do
Define and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Banking-as-a-Service product line, ensuring alignment with business goals, customer needs, and regulatory requirements.
Partner closely with business development to support growth of the BaaS business, including helping shape partner opportunities, evaluating commercial fit, and supporting go-to-market efforts for new and expanded offerings.
Develop deep expertise in the product’s API suite, technical architecture, integration patterns, and platform capabilities so you can effectively translate customer and partner needs into scalable product solutions.
Serve as a key point of contact for customers, fintech partners, vendors, and channel partners, gathering requirements, explaining technical capabilities, and helping guide successful implementations and ongoing enhancements.
Lead cross-functional coordination across engineering, operations, risk, compliance, and other internal teams to ensure product initiatives are technically feasible, operationally sound, and executed successfully.
Track product usage, adoption, customer sentiment, OKRs, KPIs, and market trends to inform prioritization, improve performance, and identify new opportunities in embedded finance and Banking-as-a-Service.

Qualifications
5-7 years of experience in product management, product leadership, or program management, with demonstrated success owning roadmap, delivery, and growth for financial technology or banking-related products.
Strong understanding of Banking-as-a-Service, embedded finance, payments, deposit products, or related fintech ecosystems, including how bank, fintech, and partner relationships operate.
Demonstrated ability to understand and work with APIs, technical integrations, and product architecture, with the ability to translate business needs into clear product requirements for engineering and implementation teams.
Proven experience working cross-functionally with engineering, operations, compliance, risk, and business development teams to launch and scale products in a regulated environment.
Excellent communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with customers, external partners, executives, and internal teams while using data and market insights to drive decisions.

Location / Work Arrangement
Nashville, Tennessee – On-site (Corporate Headquarters). This position requires full-time in-office presence. Occasional travel may be required.

Employee must be able to perform essential functions of the position and, if requested, Thread Bank will make reasonable accommodations to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions of their job, absent undue hardship, in accordance with the ADA.

Thread Bank is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Thread Bank does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, non-disqualifying physical or mental disability, national origin, veteran status or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need.

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Requirements

• 5-7 years of experience in product management, product leadership, or program management, with demonstrated success owning roadmap, delivery, and growth for financial technology or banking-related products.
• Strong understanding of Banking-as-a-Service, embedded finance, payments, deposit products, or related fintech ecosystems, including how bank, fintech, and partner relationships operate.
• Demonstrated ability to understand and work with APIs, technical integrations, and product architecture, with the ability to translate business needs into clear product requirements for engineering and implementation teams.
• Proven experience working cross-functionally with engineering, operations, compliance, risk, and business development teams to launch and scale products in a regulated environment.
• Excellent communication, analytical, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to engage effectively with customers, external partners, executives, and internal teams while using data and market insights to drive decisions.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the vision, strategy, and roadmap for the Banking-as-a-Service product line, ensuring alignment with business goals, customer needs, and regulatory requirements.
• Partner closely with business development to support growth of the BaaS business, including helping shape partner opportunities, evaluating commercial fit, and supporting go-to-market efforts for new and expanded offerings.
• Develop deep expertise in the product’s API suite, technical architecture, integration patterns, and platform capabilities so you can effectively translate customer and partner needs into scalable product solutions.
• Serve as a key point of contact for customers, fintech partners, vendors, and channel partners, gathering requirements, explaining technical capabilities, and helping guide successful implementations and ongoing enhancements.
• Lead cross-functional coordination across engineering, operations, risk, compliance, and other internal teams to ensure product initiatives are technically feasible, operationally sound, and executed successfully.
• Track product usage, adoption, customer sentiment, OKRs, KPIs, and market trends to inform prioritization, improve performance, and identify new opportunities in embedded finance and Banking-as-a-Service.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees