Product Manager - Growth (technical or ex-product engineer)

Kovo•Austin, TX

6d•$150,000 - $230,000•Remote

About The Position

Kovo is hiring a Product Manager - Growth to grow its core credit-building product. The role has end-to-end responsibility for onboarding, lifecycle, conversion, and retention, with ownership of the product’s direction and hands-on responsibility for building and shipping improvements. The person will set the north star, input metrics, roadmap, and quarterly plan; identify and size opportunities; prototype in sandbox environments; ship production code; instrument events; and run experiments from hypothesis through readout. The role focuses primarily on finding and shipping high-leverage improvements to existing products, while also developing systems that can run experiments with fewer people involved over time. The work includes owning lifecycle workflows, templates, triggers, and monitoring, and building agentic workflows to propose, launch, and evaluate experiments. The position reports to one of Kovo’s founders, based in Austin, Texas. Kovo describes the role as remote and high-intensity, with full ownership and little scaffolding.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience, or equivalent depth, in product engineering, growth engineering, or a product role involving shipping one's own code.
Recent experience shipping production code in TypeScript, React, or a similar technology; AI-assisted code counts.
A track record of measured wins in activation, conversion, retention, or reactivation for a consumer product.
Comfort with event-driven systems, product analytics, experiment design, and lifecycle platforms.
Intermediate SQL skills or better.
Ability and willingness to take ownership of outcomes and measure results.
Ability to investigate product data and run experiments independently.
Clear, concise written communication.
Comfort working in a high-intensity remote role with full ownership and little scaffolding.
Willingness to use AI agents extensively and hold their output to a high quality bar.

Nice To Haves

Consumer fintech experience.

Responsibilities

Own the north star, input metrics, roadmap, and quarterly plan for the core product.
Prioritize opportunities based on measured impact on conversion, retention, and lifetime value.
Share concise updates about results.
Investigate onboarding, payment, and lifecycle workflows using session reviews, data queries, and support conversations.
Size opportunities before building solutions.
Prototype in sandbox environments and ship production changes directly.
Use AI agents extensively while maintaining a high quality bar for their output.
Instrument product events and fix gaps in event and property tracking.
Run experiments end-to-end, including forming hypotheses, sizing opportunities, launching experiments, and sharing readouts.
Own lifecycle workflows, templates, triggers, and monitoring.
Build agentic workflows that increasingly automate proposing, launching, and reading out experiments.