Lead Product Manager | Bankrate

*This role is open to remote or hybrid candidates (East Coast preference), with hybrid being central to our New York, NY or Charlotte area offices. Must be able to work Eastern Standard Time hours. For the Bankrate website https://www.bankrate.com/. Curious how Bankrate fits into Red Ventures? https://www.redventures.com/portfolio/bankrate As a Lead Product Manager, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for a cross-functional team working across two high-priority growth areas: building deeper authenticated, personalized experiences that help consumers discover and qualify for the right financial products across mortgage, desposits, credit cards, and beyond — and bringing our market-leading mortgage marketplace to realtors as a premier referral channel. Together, these two surfaces represent a meaningful expansion of how Bankrate serves consumers at the moments that matter most. This role leads end-to-end product strategy with direct people management. You will manage product managers and lead a cross-functional squad of engineers and designers. You will set a 12–24 month product vision that drives impactful financial outcomes for consumers — whether through a more personalized, authenticated product experience or through a realtor-referred mortgage journey. This is a high-speed, high-impact role operating in a start-up type environment where speed to learning is key. What You'll Do: Build Deeper Authenticated Consumer Experiences: Lead the vision and execution for personalized, authenticated journeys across financial products — including mortgage qualification flows, saved preferences, cross-product recommendations, and tailored matching — that meaningfully increase consumer confidence, engagement depth, and return visits. Own the Realtor Entry Strategy: Define the end-to-end product vision for how realtors interact with our mortgage marketplace, expanding our platform beyond a consumer-only approach and unlocking a significant new referral channel for lenders. Advance Financial Product Personalization: Identify the authenticated experience "hooks" — pre-qualification, rate alerts, personalized product matching across mortgage, deposits, and credit cards — that deepen the consumer relationship with Bankrate and increase lender monetization. Disrupt the "Local Lender" Habit: Develop a clear multi-year roadmap that provides realtors with enough value (transparency, speed, and co-branding) to shift their loyalty from traditional preferred lenders to our digital marketplace. Strategic Tradeoffs: Balance the needs of multiple personas — the consumer (the borrower), the realtor (the referrer), and the lender (the provider) — across both workstreams, making deliberate prioritization decisions when they compete. Partner with Engineering and Design leads to ensure strong execution health, technical quality, and appropriate sequencing of foundational vs. feature work across both surfaces. Directly manage product managers on the team while also serving as the product and technical leader for a broader cross-functional squad of engineers and designers. Establish clear operating rhythms, decision frameworks, and success metrics that enable consistent delivery and learning across multiple product surfaces. Use quantitative and qualitative insights to validate strategy, guide prioritization, and iterate on the roadmap — spanning both B2C (consumer personalization and qualification) and B2B (realtor adoption) dimensions. What We're Looking For: Experience in financial services or fintech, with a strong understanding of the mortgage lifecycle and consumer financial decision-making; familiarity with adjacent products like personal loans or credit cards is a plus. Proven experience building or scaling authenticated, personalized consumer experiences — ideally across multiple financial product verticals. Experience taking a product into a net-new market segment or launching a zero-to-one initiative within a larger organization. Demonstrated ability to manage multiple parallel workstreams and direct reports without losing strategic clarity or execution discipline. Ability to work with APIs and integrations to ensure seamless data flow between consumers, lenders, and partners across product surfaces. Experience owning complex, interconnected platforms rather than isolated features. Track record of driving measurable outcomes, particularly in revenue-impacting systems. Comfort navigating ambiguity while maintaining forward momentum. Compensation: This range reflects total cash compensation, which may include base salary only or base salary plus target bonus, depending on the role. Where eligible, equity may also be offered separately and not included below. Actual compensation varies based on location, experience, and qualifications. Total Cash Compensation Range: $145,000 – $200,000 per year Additionally, the following benefits are provided by Red Ventures, subject to eligibility requirements. Health Insurance Coverage (medical, dental, and vision) Life Insurance Short and Long-Term Disability Insurance Flexible Spending Accounts Holiday Pay 401(k) with match Employee Assistance Program Paid Parental Bonding Benefit Program Flexible Paid Time Off (PTO): We believe time to rest and recharge is essential.  That’s why we offer a generous and flexible PTO policy.  Full-time employees accrue 20 days of PTO for a full calendar year annually, with an increase to 25 days after five years of service. Who We Are: Bankrate is redefining the future of financial decision-making. For nearly five decades, we’ve empowered tens of millions of consumers to make smarter financial choices and helped hundreds of leading financial institutions grow. Today, we’re evolving from a marketplace into a next-generation technology platform—underpinned by proprietary data, AI-driven innovation, and deep enterprise integrations. With  our track record of delivering consumers quantifiably better offers—for example, on home loans  where we lead the market—Bankrate stands at the center of the $60B U.S. financial services acquisition opportunity. As we expand through  omnichannel marketing and strategic  partnerships, and launch  unique consumer product applications, we’re building a more efficient, personalized, and connected financial ecosystem—one grounded in trust. Join us as we transform five decades of credibility into the next era of financial technology. Red Ventures is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate against any employee or applicant because of race, creed, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, national origin, disability, age, genetic information, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or any other basis protected by law. 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