Head of Product - Business Lending

Key responsibilities

• Own the business lending P&L and strategy: Set the multi-year strategy - which products to build, which segments to serve, how to grow originations against economic and credit targets. Own the numbers.
• Build and scale the lending org: Recruit, develop, and lead a high-performing PM team, strong product build discipline, develop future leaders, and establish the operating cadence and culture that allow a lending business to move quickly without sacrificing rigor.
• Take products from 0-1 to scale: Launch and grow Mercury's lending products - term loans, lines of credit, and what comes next, and build the experimentation loop that compounds growth post-launch.
• Partner with credit, underwriting, and risk on credit policy, underwriting models, and eligibility.
• Manage capital and lending partners: Work with finance, capital markets, and banking/lending partners to keep the business well-capitalized and structured to scale, and own those relationships.
• Balance growth with rigor: Build a lending business that customers love while meeting the credit, risk, and compliance standards a regulated product demands— making the hard tradeoffs between speed, experience, and controls.
• Align the lending ecosystem: Bring together product, engineering, underwriting, risk, credit operations, data, compliance, legal, marketing, sales, support, and external partners to execute a cohesive lending strategy and deliver strong business outcomes.

Some things that might make you successful in a role like this:

• We're looking for a leader who has built and scaled a business lending organization, with great product chops, the commercial instinct to grow it and the credit discipline to grow it responsibly, equally credible on portfolio economics with finance, credit policy with underwriting, and product strategy with engineering.
• 10+ years in lending or credit products, including significant time in SMB, commercial, or business lending, with experience building and running teams.
• 5+ years leading and managing teams of product managers, including hiring, coaching, organizational design.