Director of Product Management, Service & Support
ABOUT VARO
Varo is a bank for all of us. We're all digital, mission-driven, FDIC-insured, and designed for the way you live.
We're on a mission to bring financial inclusion and opportunity to all hard-working Americans. Through our mobile app, we offer premium bank accounts that have no minimum balance requirement or monthly account fees, high-interest savings accounts, short term lending and solutions to help customers stretch their paycheck, build credit and start saving. Our tech-first products are designed to make money work for everyone and help customers and communities build greater financial resiliency.
Varo is distinct from other fintechs: we've made history as the first and only consumer fintech to be granted a full national bank charter by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC).
Varo Bank represents the evolution of a new generation of banks that are born from innovation and built on technology to empower consumers and businesses.
Our team combines the best of both consumer tech and banking, and we’re wildly passionate about helping our customers. Our teams are based in San Francisco and Salt Lake City. Privately held, we've raised over $419M to date from leading institutional investors and strategic partners including Warburg Pincus, The Rise Fund / TPG Growth, Gallatin Point Capital, Harbourvest Partners, and Progressive Insurance.
Varo is entrepreneurial, collaborative, enthusiastic, customer-oriented, fast-paced, and multicultural. This is an open and relatively flat organization that puts an emphasis on collaboration, sharing ideas and information. For a relatively early stage company, Varo is grounded in a strong set of values and takes pride in the diversity of its employees and board.
ABOUT THE PRODUCT TEAM
Varo’s product team is a cornerstone of the culture and the app experiences that our customers interact with on a daily basis. We’re responsible for making sure the products we ship provide innovative solutions that solve real problems for people.
We appreciate the value of getting into the mental models of our customers and out of our offices. We truly live up to the “glue” metaphor for product management and bring together cross-functional teams to act on a combination of qualitative and quantitative data. We thrive on feedback and push to always up our game—but try to never take ourselves too seriously.
ABOUT THE DIRECTOR OF PRODUCT MANAGEMENT, SERVICE AND SUPPORT ROLE
We are currently seeking a Director of Product Management to lead Varo’s service and support efforts. In this role, you will create and drive the strategy, vision, and roadmap, with a high degree of ownership. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team, make a big impact, and help us scale Varo Bank.
WHAT YOU'LL DO
Develop and drive the vision, strategy, and execution of our service and support experience.
Prioritize solutions that will deliver deep integrations, product performance, and operational scalability alongside peers across the company.
Create capability/feature level roadmaps with clear success metrics that achieve a given set of goals and outcomes.
Be a player / coach product leader, providing leadership, motivation, and guidance to product managers, design, and engineering teams, while directly contributing to advancing the product.
Champion new tools and systems to improve our internal operations and help us deliver even better products and services, faster.
SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE THAT'LL HELP YOU BE GREAT
Accomplished product leader at a startup or fast growing company, leading a team of PMs.
Ability to leverage data and good judgment to make difficult decisions in a timely manner.
Ability to set the product direction and lead a team without a lot of oversight.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills to succinctly articulate concepts, ideas, and recommendations.
Skilled at cross functional partnership and able to ask for what you need to move your team forward.
Comfortable rolling up your sleeves when something that may exist at a bigger company isn’t available at a startup.
Customer service, CRM, and cloud based agent tools.
THE THREE SKILLS THAT MATTER MOST
Nobody can be great at everything, but we're looking for candidates who are extraordinary at:
Resourcefulness
Execution
Analytical
CULTURAL ALIGNMENT
Varo is entrepreneurial, collaborative, enthusiastic, customer-oriented, fast-paced, and multicultural. This is an open and relatively flat organization that puts an emphasis on collaboration, sharing ideas and information. For a relatively early stage company, Varo is grounded in a strong set of values and takes pride in the diversity of its employees.
OUR CORE VALUES
Customers First: Understand the problems our customers are trying to solve. Respond with a sense of urgency. Build relationships that result in loyalty. Be data and insights-driven. Test everything. Achieve results through strong execution. Build a product people love. Assess new initiatives with the customers’ interest in mind. Act with empathy.
Take Ownership: Bias towards action. Have high standards. Be accountable for the results of your work, our product, our company. Trust others to own it.
Respect: Treat others how you want to be treated. Listen first before being heard. Speak the truth even when it's not easy. Assume best intentions. Bring your full self to work.
Stay Curious: Ask why. Dare to make things better. Learn something new each day (even from mistakes). Be open to growth. Develop creative solutions.
Make it Better: Think big. Set high goals. Work towards long term value rather than short term wins. Create change. Be resilient.
Varo is an equal opportunity employer. Varo embraces diversity and we are committed to building teams that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.
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Engineering Blog - https://medium.com/engineering-varo
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