Senior Product Manager | Bankrate

Red Ventures is seeking a Senior Product Manager for Bankrate, a company that helps consumers make informed financial decisions. The role involves owning major parts of the product roadmap, focusing on strategy, cross-functional leadership, and driving platform modernization for the Supply platform ecosystem.

Responsibilities:

• Define multi-quarter direction and measurable outcomes, synthesizing complex insights into clear direction
• Articulate a cohesive modernization roadmap from a product lens to handle increased scale, complexity, and volume across the pricing engine and supporting systems
• Lead cross-functional execution across engineering, design, and data science for complex initiatives, ensuring work is delivered with clarity, quality, and measurable impact
• Partner with Engineering and Design leads to ensure strong execution health, technical quality, and appropriate sequencing of foundational vs. feature work
• Create structure and alignment across multiple roadmap streams
• Frame strategic tradeoffs explicitly and guide investment decisions using customer needs, advertiser outcomes, platform health, and business impact
• Maintain appropriate distance from specific solutions as scope increases, focusing instead on underlying problems, constraints, and system behavior
• Define success metrics tied to platform scalability, pricing effectiveness, advertiser outcomes, and system reliability
• Use quantitative and qualitative insights to guide prioritization and validate outcomes
• Build voice-of-customer connection by working with stakeholders to gain direct access to customers and advertisers for validation
• Develop deep mastery of the product domain, users, and underlying systems—including Loantek’s pricing logic, integrations, constraints, and operational realities—to serve as a trusted source of context
• Use this judgment to anticipate implications and downstream effects
• Apply this expertise to shape strategy, guide others, and inform cross-domain tradeoffs rather than to control individual solutions

Requirements:

• Demonstrated ability to manage a strategic horizon of 6–18 months owning complex, interconnected platform components rather than isolated features
• Deep experience or strong familiarity with a home lending pricing engine or PPE, ideally in mortgage or refinance contexts
• Demonstrated ability to modernize legacy platforms and scale systems to handle increased volume and complexity
• Expert ability to synthesize complex insights into clear, actionable direction
• Experience defining and driving measurable outcomes rather than just output, with a proven track record in revenue-impacting or platform-critical systems
• Ability to build alignment across multiple roadmap streams, stakeholders, and cross-functional partners
• Demonstrated ability to focus on system behavior, legacy complexity, and constraints rather than premature implementation details
• Ability to adjust the level of solution involvement based on the role and strategic horizon
• Experience with platforms such as Optimal Blue, Mortech, or similar pricing engines is highly valued
• Prior experience with mortgage pricing, rate logic, eligibility constraints, margins, and advertiser considerations is strongly preferred
• A technical background, either as an engineer or in a product role focused on complex backend systems, is strongly preferred