Director, Product - Prefunding

About the Role

Kapitus is seeking a Director of Product Management to lead the Decisioning & Closing Value Stream, including Intake, Underwriting, Decisioning, Closing, and Risk Enablement capabilities. This role includes direct leadership of a team of Product Owners and Business Analysts, with full accountability for product strategy, roadmap delivery, and measurable business performance across the domain. This role requires strong platform and systems thinking, the ability to understand technical constraints and trade-offs, and accountability for measurable economic outcomes. You will be responsible for evolving the platform, advancing automation, and driving measurable business performance at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the Value Stream Strategy - Define and evolve the product vision for the Decisioning & Closing domain. Translate company priorities into a focused roadmap that strengthens underwriting capabilities, supports platform scalability, and drives long-term competitive advantage.
• Drive Impact and Performance - Own measurable outcomes across growth, approval-to-funding conversion, automation, risk performance, and customer experience. Make thoughtful trade-offs and ensure initiatives are tied to clear KPIs that strengthen portfolio health and long-term scalability.
• Lead High-Quality, Cross-Functional Execution - Drive execution from discovery through delivery in close partnership with Engineering, Risk, Operations, Sales, and Executive Leadership. Ensure initiatives are clearly defined, thoughtfully sequenced, and delivered with strong documentation, scalable design, and measurable business impact.