Product Manager - 529 Prepaid

Vestwell•Austin, NY

17h•Hybrid

About The Position

Vestwell is hiring a hands-on Product Manager for its Government Savings business to help build a full recordkeeping and saver experience for a prepaid tuition 529 program. Unlike an investment-based plan, this program lets families purchase tuition credits at current rates. This is a greenfield build with a fixed deadline, and the Product Manager will own defined functional areas from discovery and requirements through testing and launch, working with guidance from senior product leads. The role involves translating stakeholder goals into buildable features, developing and documenting business and functional requirements, use cases, and acceptance criteria, collaborating closely with engineering, QA, design, operations, servicing, relationship management, and marketing, and providing iterative feedback throughout development. The Product Manager will complete functional testing, sign off on production-ready features, monitor progress and risks with senior product leads, and use data to validate assumptions and investigate issues. The position is based in Vestwell’s hybrid in-office operation, with a role location in New York City, Austin, or King of Prussia.

Requirements

At least 3 years of Product Management experience.
Strong business and systems analysis skills.
Ability to thoroughly understand and document business and functional requirements and business use cases.
Experience working in the software development lifecycle in an Agile environment.
Ability to work in a fast-paced, project-oriented environment and meet deadlines under tight time constraints.
Ability to work independently and collaboratively across Product, Engineering, QA, and Operations.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Experience with SQL and data integrations, such as APIs, JSON, XML, or file-based integrations.

Nice To Haves

FinTech or financial services experience, especially recordkeeping, payments, or other transaction-based systems.
Experience with 529, ABLE, or other government savings programs.
Experience building internal or operational tools.
Comfort using AI tools in day-to-day Product Management workflows.

Responsibilities

Understand goals and stakeholder needs for assigned areas and translate them into buildable features with clear intended impact.
Conduct discovery and write business requirements, functional requirements, and use cases.
Partner with engineering to break requirements into stories with clear acceptance criteria.
Provide iterative feedback to the development team, identify bugs, and help resolve them.
Complete functional testing and provide product sign-off when features are ready for production release.
Keep senior product leads informed about progress, risks, and open questions, and bring options when tradeoffs require a decision.
Work with operations, servicing, and client teams to ensure products support day-to-day operations.
Use data to validate assumptions and investigate issues.