clasp-group - Director of Product, Clasp Student Finance
Requirements
• 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. • 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)
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.
Benefits
• Flexible PTO policy • Opportunities to grow and perform in a fast-paced environment alongside a stellar team • The salary range for this position is competitive and will be commensurate with the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and industry knowledge, ranging between $160,000 to $190,000 annually. In addition to the base salary, we offer an attractive equity component as part of our compensation package, providing an opportunity for eligible employees to share in the success and growth of our company. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and benefits packages to attract and retain top talent. • Work authorization • This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship, now or in the future. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer. • How we use AI in hiring • Clasp uses AI-assisted tools in parts of our hiring process, such as AI notetakers transcribing or summarizing interviews, scheduling, and supporting evaluation in technical assessments. Humans review applications and make every hiring decision. AI tools don't make final decisions about any candidate. You're welcome to use AI to research Clasp and prepare, but during live interviews and assessments we want to hear your own thinking, so please don't use AI tools that generate or feed you responses in real time. If you'd like to be evaluated without AI tools, need an accommodation, or have questions about how we use these tools, email [email protected] and we'll arrange another process where we can. • Equal opportunity
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