Director of Product Management | Bankrate

Headquarters: United States We are searching for an innovative thinker who wants to be a part of shaping our future product strategy supporting Bankrate's Home Lending transformation.  As a Lead Product Director, you will own the strategy, roadmap, and outcomes for Bankrate’s Supply platform ecosystem, with primary accountability for Loantek, our pricing and product engine that underpins the home lending marketplace. This role combines end-to-end product strategy ownership with people leadership. You will lead a cross-functional squad and manage a team of Product Managers and a pricing analyst, while setting a 12–24 month product vision to modernize and scale the platform in preparation for future growth and anticipated refinance traffic surges. This is a high-impact platform role focused on reducing complexity, increasing scalability and reliability, and creating clarity across pricing, data, and advertiser workflows. You will determine the best path forward to invest in our platform and innovate to support greater personalization and prequalification capabilities. What You’ll Do: Product Strategy & Vision Own and define the end-to-end product strategy for Loantek, BAP, and RMS, with Loantek as the primary and most critical focus area. Develop a clear, multi-year product vision for modernizing the pricing engine and supporting systems to handle increased scale, complexity, and volume — including preparedness for expected 2026 refinance traffic surges. Deeply understand the current state of Loantek’s pricing logic, integrations, constraints, and operational realities, and articulate a cohesive modernization roadmap from a product lens. Frame strategic tradeoffs explicitly and guide investment decisions using customer needs, advertiser outcomes, platform health, and business impact. Ensure pricing, data, and advertiser workflows are scalable, reliable, and aligned with long-term business needs. Cross-Functional Leadership & Execution Lead a cross-functional squad, se