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

Kovo•,

6d•$155,000 - $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 ownership of onboarding, lifecycle, conversion, and retention, including setting the product direction and personally building and shipping improvements. The position focuses primarily on identifying and delivering high-leverage improvements to the existing product, while also developing systems that make experimentation increasingly efficient and keeping the team informed about the roadmap and results. The role inherits two feature-complete credit-builder products that report to all four major credit bureaus, along with onboarding, lifecycle messaging across email, push, in-app, and SMS, growth experiments across web and app, a lifecycle-stack migration to PostHog, product analytics and experiments in PostHog, and sandbox environments for prototyping against the real product. The Product Manager will own the core product's north star, input metrics, roadmap, and quarterly plan; prioritize opportunities based on measured effects on conversion, retention, and lifetime value; investigate product workflows and data; size opportunities; prototype and ship production code; maintain event instrumentation; run experiments end-to-end; and own the lifecycle system. The role also involves building agentic workflows to automate proposing, launching, and reading out experiments. The position reports to one of Kovo's founders and is fully remote, with Austin, Texas as a plus but not a requirement. Kovo describes itself as an early-stage, high-growth, capital-efficient company focused on expanding access to financial tools for people excluded from the traditional credit system. It emphasizes high ownership, minimal bureaucracy, speed, learning, and impact, while noting that priorities evolve quickly, some systems and processes are still being built, and the pace is intense and not optimized for work-life balance.

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 similar; AI-assisted work counts.
A track record of measured wins in activation, conversion, retention, or reactivation in a consumer product.
Comfort with event-driven systems, product analytics, experiment design, and lifecycle platforms.
Intermediate SQL or better.
Ability to own outcomes and measure work by what changed.
Comfort with a high-intensity, fully remote role involving full ownership and little scaffolding.
Ability to write clear, concise communications that people can act on after one read.

Nice To Haves

Consumer fintech experience.
Based in Austin, Texas.

Responsibilities

Own the core product's north star, input metrics, roadmap, and quarterly plan.
Prioritize a short list of bets based on measured impact on conversion, retention, and lifetime value.
Communicate results through short updates focused on outcomes rather than activity.
Investigate onboarding, payment, and lifecycle workflows using session reviews, data queries, and support conversations.
Size opportunities before building.
Prototype in sandbox environments and ship production code directly.
Instrument events and fix event and property gaps.
Run experiments end-to-end, including hypothesis development, sizing, launch, and readout.
Own lifecycle workflows, templates, triggers, and monitoring.
Build agentic workflows that increasingly automate proposing, launching, and reading out experiments.
Keep the team informed about the roadmap and results.