Director of Product, Machine Learning & Decisioning Platforms

Upstart

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Work type
Remote
Location
Canada
Salary
$216,100–$299,000 / yr
Posted
10 days ago
Freshness
Confirmed live today
Closes
Dec 24, 2026

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $246k
This role $258k
$183k most similar roles pay here $311k

This role pays more than 60% of similar roles. Most pay $209,984–$282,525 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $258k versus about $246k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Upstart

Upstart is an AI lending platform that partners with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit using non-traditional variables.

Upstart currently has 63 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $166,900–$229,200 across 62 roles with salary data.

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TL;DR · Director of Product, Machine Learning & Decisioning Platforms

As the Director of Product, Machine Learning & Decisioning Platforms, you will lead a team of product managers to drive the strategy and roadmap for platforms powering credit decisioning and machine learning capabilities. You will manage the development of systems underlying pricing, underwriting, model deployment, forecasting, experimentation, and monitoring while partnering with engineering and machine learning leaders. Your role involves identifying opportunities to apply machine learning across the business, creating scalable processes for integrating data vendors, and balancing long-term platform investment with near-term execution. The ideal candidate possesses technical fluency in model lifecycle management, real-time inference platforms, and decisioning systems. This position addresses the core challenge of evolving underwriting systems to better connect customer information and model outputs with business outcomes within the credit and lending domain.

What you'll do

  • Lead, coach, and develop a team of product managers to improve organizational product management quality.
  • Define the product strategy and roadmap for credit decisioning and machine learning platforms.
  • Partner with engineering and machine learning leaders to improve model development, deployment, and monitoring.
  • Evolve underwriting and decisioning systems to better connect customer information with business outcomes.
  • Identify and validate machine learning opportunities through MVPs to build scalable products.
  • Create scalable processes for evaluating and integrating data vendors and other ML capabilities.
  • Balance near-term execution with long-term platform investment across risk, complexity, and speed.
  • Ensure machine learning is integrated into the overall company product strategy from the start.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor’s degree in a technical field or equivalent practical experience.
  • 8+ years of product management experience, including leading technical or platform products.
  • Experience managing and developing product managers across multiple interconnected teams.
  • Strong technical fluency with experience partnering with engineering, machine learning, and data science teams.
  • Demonstrated ability to set strategy, navigate ambiguity, and deliver results in a fast-paced environment.
  • Ability to connect technical and product decisions to business outcomes in credit, lending, or financial services.
  • Track record of building strong teams and improving the quality of product management practices.
  • Experience as a data scientist, machine learning engineer, or with model lifecycle management (preferred).

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