Principal Product Manager

SoFi

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Work type: On-site
Location: San Francisco, CANew York, NYSeattle, WA
Posted: 12 days ago
Freshness: Confirmed live yesterday
Nearby: 99+ roles within 25 mi

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About SoFi

SoFi Technologies is a fintech company offering student and personal loans, mortgages, credit cards, investing, banking, and insurance products, positioning itself as a one-stop financial services platform. Industry: Financial Technology & Personal Finance

SoFi currently has 17 open roles on FindRole.

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TL;DR · Principal Product Manager

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The Principal Product Manager serves as a senior individual contributor and product leader responsible for one of the company's most strategic product areas. You will own the multi-year roadmap, vision, and strategy for products involving borrowing, saving, spending, investing, and protecting money. Day-to-day responsibilities include breaking down vision into actionable phases, prioritizing backlogs for engineering teams, making critical architectural decisions, and leading build-vs-buy evaluations. You must collaborate with engineering, design, data science, marketing, operations, finance, risk, legal, and compliance teams to ensure scalability, security, and regulatory compliance. The role requires deep technical fluency, experience with P&L or key business outcomes, and the ability to navigate complex trade-offs in a highly regulated financial services environment. You will also mentor other product managers and influence broader company strategy.

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Skills

Data Science AI Vendor Assessment Regulatory Compliance Analytics Security Scalability

What you'll do

Own and evolve the product vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap for your assigned product area.
Break down the product vision into actionable phases and prioritize backlogs for engineering teams.
Drive platform and product strategy focused on scalability, reliability, security, and regulatory compliance.
Partner with engineering to make critical architectural decisions and guide long-term technology investments.
Align product capabilities with regulatory requirements by engaging with risk, compliance, legal, and security teams.
Define success metrics and measure performance, member impact, and business outcomes.
Lead complex build-vs-buy evaluations, including vendor assessments and technology trade-offs.
Communicate the vision, strategy, and execution plan to stakeholders and executive leadership.

What we're looking for

Bachelor's degree or higher, ideally in a technical, finance, or quantitative field.
8+ years of product management experience.
Proven track record leading technically complex or highly strategic products at scale.
Deep technical fluency to collaborate with engineers, data scientists, and architects on trade-offs and design decisions.
Demonstrated ability to balance long-term platform and product investments with near-term delivery needs.
Strong cross-functional leadership skills with engineering, design, data science, security, compliance, legal, and analytics.
Exceptional written and verbal communication skills to simplify complexity for diverse stakeholders and C-level leadership.
Experience owning end-to-end product delivery and P&L or key business outcomes.
MBA or advanced degree in a technical, business, or quantitative field (preferred).
Experience in fintech, financial services, payments, or other highly regulated industries (preferred).
Experience with data-driven, personalized, or AI-powered consumer products (preferred).
Experience building and mentoring high-performing product teams (preferred).

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