Product Manager - Decisioning & Risk Platforms

AvantChicago, IL
$95,000 - $135,000Hybrid

About The Position

Avant is seeking a Product Manager to shape and manage our Decisioning & Risk Platforms. You'll be responsible for owning the platforms that determine which products we offer to customers, mitigates business risk, and ensures we deliver on a trustworthy experience.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of Product Management experience, preferably within fintech, financial services, risk, fraud, lending, banking, or other regulated industries
  • Experience owning platform products, technical products, or internal-facing systems with multiple stakeholders and customers
  • Experience working with decisioning systems, underwriting platforms, fraud prevention systems, identity verification solutions, rules engines, or risk management platforms
  • Strong technical fluency, including APIs, data models, distributed systems, system architecture, and platform design tradeoffs
  • Highly data-driven with strong analytical skills; SQL proficiency required
  • Experience partnering with Data Science, Analytics, or Risk teams to deploy, evaluate, and optimize models in production
  • Demonstrated ability to define product strategy, execute against roadmaps, and deliver measurable business outcomes
  • Strong cross-functional leadership and communication skills, with the ability to influence across technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • Experience designing and analyzing experiments, A/B tests, and optimization initiatives
  • Hands-on experience leveraging AI-native tools (e.g., AI-powered analytics, research, coding, workflow automation, or decision-support tools) and a demonstrated ability to incorporate them into product development and operational processes

Nice To Haves

  • Experience managing third-party vendors, integrations, and external technology partnerships preferred
  • Familiarity with compliance and regulatory considerations within financial services environments preferred

Responsibilities

  • Own the vision, strategy, and roadmap, balancing customer experience, business growth, risk outcomes, operational efficiency, and regulatory requirements.
  • Prioritize platform investments and enhancements based on business impact, customer needs, and data-driven insights.
  • Partner with Business Teams, Risk, Fraud, Operations, Engineering, Data Science, Compliance/Legal, and Design to identify opportunities, align priorities, define solutions, and deliver measurable business outcomes.
  • Define and deliver scalable platform capabilities which could include decision orchestration, rules management, model integration, experimentation frameworks, observability, vendor integrations, and internal tooling.
  • Drive modernization efforts that improve flexibility, speed, and reliability across the decisioning ecosystem.
  • Translate strategy into execution by defining product requirements, PRDs, user stories, workflows, acceptance criteria, API contracts, instrumentation requirements, rollout plans, and success metrics.
  • Drive execution across the product lifecycle by prioritizing backlogs, managing tradeoffs, coordinating dependencies, removing blockers, and ensuring high-quality launches that deliver measurable value.
  • Own relationships with technology partners.
  • Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and platform capabilities that can improve decision quality, operational efficiency, and customer outcomes.
  • Define and monitor key platform metrics and identify opportunities to continuously improve platform performance.
  • Identify opportunities to leverage AI and machine learning to accelerate the roadmap.

Benefits

  • Choice of great Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance Plan options
  • 401(k) match
  • Flexible Time Off
  • Flexible Work Environment - (i.e. Mon/Tues/Thurs in-person)
  • Generous Paid Parental Leave, Adoption Assistance and Post-parental leave ramp-up program
  • Lunch Allowance (Fooda) and In-office Snacks
  • Summer Fridays
  • Fun In-Office and Virtual Social Events
  • Swag
© 2026 Teal Labs, Inc
Privacy PolicyTerms of Service