Product Manager - Decisioning & Risk Platforms

Avant • Chicago, IL

1d • $95,000 - $135,000 • Hybrid

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

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed