Clasp Group Director of Product for Clasp Student Finance leading product strategy and roadmap to scale student loan financing solutions. Collaborates across executive, product, engineering, compliance, and lending operations teams.
Responsibilities
Own the product strategy and roadmap for Clasp Student Finance, co-leading execution alongside the Director of Engineering
Build a repeatable way to onboard and integrate schools, including how they certify loans and how we connect to their student information systems. We need to launch enterprise university customers without custom builds
Decide where we make our product bets – prioritize across student application experience, university customer asks, and platform modernization
Pair deeply with Compliance and bring them in early on every decision. Shipping in a regulated environment requires a strong relationship between Product and Compliance
Represent Clasp's product vision to school partners, at higher-ed finance conferences and inside the company. This isn't a sales role, but you should be able to explain why a school needs what we're building.
Learn our lending platform end to end, from application and disclosures through school certification, data and disbursement with our bank and servicing partners. Become the person everyone goes to with product questions about it.
Become an expert on student loan policy and where Clasp can go to continue to meet the needs of students and universities. You should be deeply passionate about the problem space.
Qualification
7+ years in product managementExperience with student loansCommercial judgmentYou take a position and defend itYou use AI deeplyWhat We Give In ReturnHealth benefits (healthStudent loan repayment benefitsFlexible PTO policy
Required
7+ years in product management, including recent hands-on work. You're comfortable working across the spectrum from executive strategy to sprint planning.
Experience managing direct reports and building a team: you’ve hired, created an org chart, and coached PMs.
Experience with student loans. You don’t need to have spent your entire career in this space, but we need someone who understands the basic mechanics of financial aid packaging, loan applications, certification and disbursement, and servicing.
Experience partnering with Compliance to balance risk with the Product vision.
The ability to learn a complex system quickly. You need to be able to look at diagrams, API docs, read docs, and then grok a complex system quickly.
Commercial judgment. You connect customer problems to revenue, and you can make a clear tradeoff when schools, students, and internal teams want different things.
You take a position and defend it. You've disagreed with senior leaders, done the research to back up your view, and changed decisions while keeping their trust.
You use AI deeply. You can show us how you’ve automated things to have an impact on teammates, customers, and your own workflows.
Preferred
Experience at a startup or growth-stage company is a plus
Experience at a fintech that works with bank partners, such as a lending-as-a-service is a plus
What We Give In Return
Competitive cash and equity compensation
Health benefits (health, dental, & vision)
Student loan repayment benefits
Flexible PTO policy
Opportunities to grow and perform in a fast-paced environment alongside a stellar team