Founding Product Manager

Job description

Welcome to Glide! At Glide we’re reimagining the banking experience for the modern world. Our white label embedded fintech platform empowers legacy financial institutions, like community banks and credit unions, to pioneer novel digital experiences for their customers. You’ll be joining an all-star team with engineering, product, and growth experience from Stripe, Google, and Amazon. We’re bringing a new perspective to the decades-old financial world, and we’re hoping you can help us along the journey! The Opportunity As Glide’s Founding Product Manager, you’ll be a key partner to our Chief Product Officer and our first dedicated product hire. You’ll define our roadmap, launch new products, and set the tone for how we build. This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage company and help create a new standard in financial technology. What You’ll Do: Drive Product Vision & Execution - Own the roadmap for our flagship account opening product and our AI Agents - Ship fast—hand off your first spec to engineering within 7 days - Work closely with design and engineering to build secure, reliable features - Use data, feedback, and market insights to inform decisions Solve Real Customer Problems - Partner directly with community banks and credit unions to understand their biggest pain points - Translate complex workflows into intuitive, scalable products - Define success metrics and iterate quickly based on learnings - Own the full product lifecycle—from discovery through launch and adoption Shape How We Build - Establish product development best practices from the ground up - Drive a fast, iterative build-measure-learn loop in partnership with engineering - Ensure alignment across sales, marketing, ops, and GTM efforts - Help shape the product org and culture as we scale Who you are, and the experience we’re looking for: - Fintech experience: 5–7+ years of product management experience, ideally in fintech. Strong understanding of financial services, particularly banking, lending, or payments. - End-to-end ownership: You’ve taken products from 0 → 1 and scaled them. Comfortable navigating the full lifecycle: discovery, launch, iteration, and scale. - Experience across consumer and/or B2B: You’ve built and shipped in either consumer-facing and B2B products, especially those with complex workflows. - Customer-first & analytical: You think deeply about user journeys and can distill insights from customer interviews, data, and intuition. You use metrics to drive product decisions and experimentation. - Startup mindset: You thrive in ambiguity, love high ownership, and bias toward action. You’ve shipped in high-growth, early-stage environments. What will make you stand out as a candidate: - AI experience: Exposure to AI-powered automation, decisioning, or workflow tooling. - Understanding of the banking ecosystem: Familiarity with core banking systems, credit unions, and the broader US banking landscape. Why Join Now? This is a unique opportunity to join Glide as a foundational leader. You won’t just support the business, you’ll help build and shape it. From defining our internal systems to driving strategic priorities, you’ll have true ownership and a seat at the table as we grow. If you're energized by building from scratch, leading cross-functional impact, and leaving your mark on how a company operates at every level, we’d love to hear from you. And finally, a brief overview of Glide’s benefits package: 💸 Competitive Compensation: The benchmark compensation for this role is $180,000-$250,000 however, the offered compensation may be higher or lower depending on skill-level and experience-level. ❤️ Wellbeing Credits (for US employees) Besides stellar health, dental, and vision insurance, we offer a $100 monthly health and wellness stipend to help you stay active and healthy! 🥗 Lunch on us (for US employees) We’re huge foodies, so every member of the Glide team received a $100 weekly stipend for lunch or groceries. No one goes hungry around here :) 🌴 Unlimited PTO and Sick Days We trust our team to balance their responsibilities and well-being, so our unlimited PTO and sick day policy empowers everyone to take the time they need without unnecessary red tape. 💼 Hybrid Working Environment We’re an actively expanding team, and in our Madison Square Park headquarters and are excited to grow an engaging in-office culture—ideally, our NYC-based team members will join us in the office three days a week to help make that vision a reality.