Senior Product Manager - Plano, TX

Photon•Dallas, TX

About The Position

The Senior Product Manager will lead the strategy, roadmap, and execution of payment portals. The role owns the end-to-end roadmap from MVP through multi-phase expansion and partners with business, engineering, UX/design, compliance, risk, and operations to deliver a scalable, compliant, partner-centric portal experience. The Product Manager works closely with designers to turn ambiguous business needs into clear, buildable features, and leads product discovery, delivery, launch, and post-launch optimization.

Requirements

At least 4 years of experience as a Product Manager delivering B2B or partner-facing platforms.
Demonstrated experience designing user access, role-based permissions, or auto finance or lending workflow systems for external partner organizations.
Hands-on collaboration experience with UX/UI designers, including participation in wireframe reviews and usability testing.
Experience scoping and launching MVPs for ambiguous or undefined future user bases, including phased product expansion.
Working knowledge of data analytics tools for KPI tracking and backlog prioritization.
Experience with Agile/Scrum or SAFe delivery methodologies.
Strong stakeholder management skills and experience aligning engineering, compliance, risk, and business teams around a shared roadmap.
Background in regulatory- or compliance-constrained product environments.

Nice To Haves

Experience in auto finance, lending, mortgage, or other regulated financial services.
Familiarity with loan servicing, payoff processing, or similar lending/financial transaction workflows.
Prior experience in automotive finance, dealer-facing systems, or similar partner portals.

Responsibilities

Define and own the product roadmap, and lead discovery and scoping for expansion.
Translate business and operational needs into clear epics, user stories, and acceptance criteria for engineering and design.
Prioritize the backlog based on impact, operational risk, compliance requirements, and business value.
Lead the product lifecycle from discovery through launch and post-launch optimization, including planning for expansion to other providers.
Work hands-on with UX/UI designers from discovery through delivery, including wireframe reviews, usability testing, and iterative design critique.
Partner with security, compliance, and engineering to ensure access controls meet enterprise and regulatory standards.
Understand and define data, validations, and business rules.
Identify opportunities to reduce manual handling and processing delays through digital workflow design.
Define edge cases, including user offboarding, re-approval, dealer-level access changes, and escalation paths for denied or pending registrations.
Champion a design-informed, user-centered approach to prioritization, balancing dealer usability with internal compliance and risk needs.
Partner with compliance, risk, and legal teams to define acceptable-use policies, data-retention rules, and audit requirements for external users.
Collaborate daily with engineering, design, compliance, risk, operations, and customer support teams.