Director of Product, Student Finance
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Director of Product owning Clasp Student Finance’s lending roadmap. Scaling university integrations, borrower experiences, and regulated student-loan operations.
Responsibilities:
- Own the product strategy and roadmap for Clasp Student Finance, co-leading execution with the Director of Engineering
- Build repeatable school onboarding and integration processes, including loan certification and connections to student information systems
- Launch enterprise university customers without custom builds
- Prioritize product bets across student application experience, university customer requests, and platform modernization
- Partner deeply with Compliance and involve them early in product decisions
- Represent Clasp's product vision to school partners, at higher-education finance conferences, and internally
- Learn and oversee the lending platform lifecycle from application and disclosures through school certification, data, disbursement, banking partners, and servicing partners
- Develop expertise in student loan policy and identify opportunities to meet student and university needs
- Present annual product plans to the executive team and board
- Manage PMs, hire and grow the product team, and speak directly with customers
Requirements:
- 7+ years in product management, including recent hands-on work
- Experience managing direct reports and building a team, including hiring, creating an org chart, and coaching PMs
- Experience with student loans, including financial aid packaging, loan applications, certification, disbursement, and servicing
- Experience partnering with Compliance to balance risk with Product vision
- Ability to learn complex systems quickly, including reading diagrams, API documentation, and technical documentation
- Commercial judgment connecting customer problems to revenue and making product tradeoffs
- Ability to take and defend a position using research and evidence
- Deep use of AI to automate workflows and create measurable impact
- Experience at a startup or growth-stage company is a plus
- Experience at a fintech working with bank partners, such as lending-as-a-service, is a plus
- Must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer
- Role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship, now or in the future
Benefits:
- Competitive cash and equity compensation
- Health benefits (health, dental, & vision)
- Student loan repayment benefits
- 401k + match
- Flexible PTO policy
- Opportunities to grow and perform in a fast-paced environment alongside a stellar team




















