About Lead Bank

Lead is a banking infrastructure platform trusted by the most innovative companies to power complex financial products. We enable fintechs to offer compliant, programmable services like payments, lending, and digital assets at scale. Banking has moved beyond traditional institutions and is now embedded directly into everyday experiences, meaning companies need modern infrastructure that is safe, secure, and operationally sound.

Today, Lead is one of the only API-first, developer-focused partner banks with the financial, regulatory, and legal expertise required to help fintechs succeed. We operate offices in San Francisco, Sunnyvale, and New York City, and an FDIC-insured bank in Kansas City.

Product Team at Lead

Lead’s Product team identifies partner needs, defines strategy, and works closely with Engineering and Design to bring products to life, guiding execution from concept through launch. But building financial infrastructure isn't just about shipping features. This team is tasked with transforming the most complex banking systems and regulatory requirements into intuitive products that developers love to build with. To help fintechs launch, grow, and innovate with confidence, the Product team must be driven by a singular goal: creating elegant solutions to difficult problems. To that end, success on this team requires genuine curiosity, exceptional communication, and thoughtful collaboration.

Role Description

We are looking for a Product Leader to support the development of our Banking as a Service platform. The services that you build will create the pathway for our clients to deliver innovative financial products relating to deposits, credit and lending, issuing and accepting credit card and/or debit card transactions, and more.

Our ideal product manager is highly analytical and uses “first principles thinking” when understanding a new domain. We are looking for someone with a user first mindset to build a next generation platform from the ground up.

In this role you will

Be passionate about changing the banking system to meet the needs of a modern digital economy

Define product strategy and ensure alignment with broader company goals and vision

Break down ambiguous problems, ask the right questions when gathering data across cross-functional groups, and use a structured (first principles) approach to create clarity and move forward

Develop and maintain a prioritized product roadmap with well-defined product requirements and compelling business justifications

Set clear goals and success metrics to measure product performance and guide decision-making

Maintain knowledge of the technical and operational elements of your product to make informed, data-driven decisions

Develop clear, actionable product requirements and communicate them effectively to engineering and design teams

Collaborate closely across engineering, design, compliance, operations, and other teams to drive execution from concept to launch

Be the glue in a diverse cross-functional environment, facilitating alignment, decisions, and consensus

Manage and mentor a team of product managers, providing guidance, support, and feedback to help them grow

Own resource allocation and hiring decisions to ensure the team is structured to meet product and business goals

Gather customer insights and feedback to inform roadmap prioritization and feature design

Begin making trade-off decisions that balance user value, technical complexity, and business impact

Perform all other duties as assigned

Qualifications

10+ years demonstrated experience in product management and/or engineering with a track record building world class fintech products

Prior experience in enterprise software domain, scalable SaaS platform design experience, and highly compliance-centric product

Have strong technical competence, with experience and track record of success in building high-velocity, low-latency, high-availability services with beautiful API design

The ability to be practical and are eager to collaborate/compromise to get to the best, most efficient outcome