Staff Product Manager, Credit Underwriting
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Staff Product Manager owning CashAI underwriting strategy for Dave, a financial app serving underserved consumers. Expanding credit access across ExtraCash, Flex card, and future products.
Responsibilities:
- Own the strategy, roadmap, and models for CashAI, Dave's proprietary underwriting engine
- Drive an ambitious underwriting strategy and multi-quarter roadmap across Dave's portfolio of credit products
- Partner with Data Science, Engineering, and Product vertical owners to design, test, and scale a multi-product underwriting platform
- Expand differentiated credit signals beyond core bank data
- Own underwriting KPIs including take rate, loss rate, disbursement volume, and retention
- Lead experimentation on underwriting and model changes from hypothesis through rollout
- Mentor others on credit domain expertise and improve underwriting evaluation and scaling practices
- Partner with senior leadership to identify new underwriting-driven products, partnerships, and data sources
- Report to the Director of Product Management
- Shape credit access for millions of members while managing business risk
Requirements:
- 8+ years of product or credit risk management experience, including 5+ years focused on credit, underwriting, or risk in a consumer lending, fintech, or banking environment
- Deep, hands-on experience with underwriting models and decisioning strategy, including cash-flow-based or alternative-data underwriting
- Proven ability to set a multi-quarter or multi-year underwriting strategy that other product managers and teams execute against
- Strong quantitative and statistical fluency; comfortable partnering with Data Science on model design, validation, and monitoring
- Track record of navigating regulatory and compliance requirements for consumer credit products
- Executive-level communication skills, with experience presenting underwriting strategy and risk trade-offs to senior leadership
- Strong sense of urgency and ability to move quickly to test, validate, and ship improvements without cutting corners on rigor
- Proven ability to use AI tools to accelerate underwriting analysis, model iteration, and decision-making
- Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Economics, Finance, or Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience
- Experience underwriting BNPL, installment, or card products
- Background in a credit risk, data science, or actuarial role prior to moving into product management
- Experience mentoring or informally leading other product managers
- Familiarity with Dave's core products (ExtraCash, Flex card, Dave Banking) or similar cash-advance and subscription-based lending models
- Must be permanently authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship
Benefits:
- Opportunity to tackle tough challenges, learn and grow from fellow top talent, and help millions of people reach their personal financial goals
- Flexible hours and virtual-first work culture with a home office stipend
- Premium Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance plans
- Generous paid parental and caregiver leave
- 401(k) savings plan with matching contributions
- Financial advisor and financial wellness support
- Flexible PTO and generous company holidays, including Juneteenth and Winter Break
- All-company in-person events once or twice a year and virtual events throughout to connect with your team members and leadership team
- Equity












