Senior Product Manager, Product Infrastructure

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ABOUT THE COMPANY Valon is building the AI-native operating system for regulated finance, starting with mortgage servicing. We're a Series C company backed by a16z, transforming industries that others have written off as too complex to innovate. Rather than build on top of broken legacy systems, we took a different approach: we built and operate our own mortgage servicing business managing $110+ billion in loans. This wasn't the end goal, it was how we deeply understood the complexity needed to build software that actually works in regulated industries. The results speak for themselves. We've transformed mortgage servicing from a 0% margin business into 60%+ margins while dramatically improving customer experience. Major enterprise contracts are now deploying across the industry. ValonOS is our unified platform that makes every process structured and programmable and it is perfectly positioned for the AI era. When everything flows through one system with rich data, AI agents don't just automate tasks, they continuously improve entire operations. Mortgage servicing is just the beginning of our vision to transform regulated industries and beyond. ABOUT THE TEAM You’ll join the core Platform & Infrastructure product org. This team builds the foundational systems and services that serve as the backbone for features across our entire product suite. While many infrastructure teams operate behind the scenes, ours sits at an intersection. We build systems that internal vertical teams depend on, and we also deliver features that directly touch end users (e.g. platforms, self-service tools, dashboards). Because of that, you’ll balance deep technical rigor with customer empathy. We operate in a high-growth, high-authenticity engineering culture. You’ll partner with senior engineers, architects, and cross-functional leads, and have high visibility across the org. RESPONSIBILITIES As a Senior Product Manager, Infrastructure & Platform, you will: - Define and own the roadmap for one or more core infrastructure domains (such as notification platform, documents platform, user management, etc.) - Deeply engage with internal stakeholders (engineering leads, vertical PMs, operations) and our customers to drive discovery and specification. - Drive initiatives end-to-end: from ideation, discovery, scoping, to launch, adoption, and iteration. - Work directly with customers/stakeholders (sometimes on-site at their operations) so that your deliverables are finely tuned to their unique and complex processes - Ensure infrastructure is resilient, scalable, observable, and secure — balancing performance, reliability, and long-term extensibility. - Lead discovery for complex customer processes: conduct customer interviews and complete process mapping across multiple customers of varying profiles - Deep ability to map processes and systems even in high ambiguity — e.g. you can take a domain with many moving pieces and build a reliable abstraction - Write clear, structured product specs, user stories that are easy to understand, even for someone without any domain knowledge - Partner closely with engineering leadership and architects to make tradeoffs on design, performance, scale, and technical debt - Evangelize infrastructure best practices across the organization and influence roadmap tradeoffs IDEAL BACKGROUND - 5+ years of product management (or equivalent) experience, ideally with exposure to b2b saas products, product infrastructure, and platforms - Strong technical fluency: experience working with engineers around systems, APIs, data models, etc. - Excellent customer discovery skills: comfortable conducting interviews, writing journey maps, and synthesizing qualitative + quantitative inputs - Track record of shipping infrastructure or platform features that were adopted broadly or had measurable impact - Highly structured thinker, able to write and communicate complex concepts simply - Comfortable operating with high autonomy, ambiguity, and responsibility - Strong collaboration skills: able to manage stakeholders, drive alignment, and hold cross-team accountability BENEFITS - Compensation: competitive salary with a meaningful stake in the company via equity, and 401k plan. NB: The base salary range reflects multiple levels. We assess level based on a combination of past experience and interview performance - Health & well-being: we’ll invest in your physical and mental well-being with comprehensive medical, dental, & vision benefits - Commuter benefits: We offer pre-tax deductions for public transportation, rideshare services, and parking expenses to make your commute more affordable and convenient - Grow together: Company wide orientation for you to successfully onboard and other learning & development opportunities including regular review cycles that feature 360 degree feedback - Play together: quarterly budgets for team and company outings. Use it for team swag, cooking classes, or team dinners! - Generous time off: flexible paid time off, sick days, and 11 company holidays - Baby bonding time!: 12 weeks off for both birthing and non-birthing parents - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition Throughout the interview process, please remember that emails will only be from valon.com http://valon.com email addresses. We will never ask for any personally identifiable information during the interview process itself. Please reach out to talent@valon.com if you have any requests to verify the authenticity of an outreach. Valon is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. Valon makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.