Full-Time

Staff Product Manager

January

January

51-200 employees

Tech-enabled debt collection platform with ML

Compensation Overview

$220k - $256k/yr

New York, NY, USA

Hybrid

At least three days per week in the New York office is required.

Category
Product (1)
Required Skills
LLM
Product Management
Machine Learning
Data Analysis

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Requirements
  • At least 5 years of experience as a Product Manager.
  • Ability to decompose problems to root causes and make decisions with incomplete information.
  • Ability to prioritize the most important work and establish principles for immediate and future decisions.
  • Ability to reason from data and design experiments that isolate causality.
  • Ability to work deeply with engineers on system-level decisions.
  • Deep interest in using large language model tooling and building related skills and workflows.
  • Experience owning product strategy end to end and producing measurable results.
  • Interest in building products from 0 to 1.
  • Ability to work effectively within legal, ethical, and financial constraints.
Responsibilities
  • Own product surfaces governing consumer outreach, communications, and trust-building experiences.
  • Develop the strategy, experiments, and systems for one of two product areas: large language model infrastructure for chatbot, voice, email, and text conversations; or high-volume email, SMS, letter communications and the experimentation engine behind them.
  • Set product strategy and standards that enable teams to make effective decisions independently.
  • Design experiments to determine what works and build systems that support adaptive outbound communications.
  • Work closely with engineers on high-stakes systems and system-level decisions.
  • Build products and workflows that use artificial intelligence and large language models throughout the organization.

January is a debt collection platform that serves creditors (banks and financial institutions) and borrowers (individuals or businesses who owe money). It uses a tech-enabled approach to improve debt recovery by applying machine learning to optimize collection strategies while prioritizing compliant, respectful interactions. The platform automates adherence to federal, state, and local regulations and increases recovery rates for creditors, reducing legal and reputational risk. Its key differentiator is combining data-driven autorecovery optimization with a personalized, human-centric approach, treating borrowers with dignity instead of treating them as numbers. The business earns revenue by charging creditors for using the platform, based on the improved recovery outcomes and lower risk. The goal is to raise recovery rates, lower risk, and set a higher standard for ethical debt collection in the financial services industry.

Company Size

51-200

Company Stage

Series B

Total Funding

$28M

Headquarters

New York City, New York

Founded

2016

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What believers are saying

  • January's website updated July 2026, signaling active product iteration and market-facing momentum.
  • Consumer bankers sponsor page says leading fintech lenders and banks partner with January.
  • June 2026 CFPB funding steadied, supporting continued collections compliance enforcement and vendor demand.

What critics are saying

  • Regulation F and FDCPA enforcement punish texting, call frequency, and validation mistakes immediately.
  • CFPB complaint spikes and FDCPA lawsuit growth in 2026 pressure January's compliance-heavy model.
  • If one automation error triggers class actions, creditor trust and revenue can collapse quickly.

What makes January unique

  • January says 95% of journeys are AI-automated, with humans handling judgment calls.
  • January has $20B serviced and 20M consumers engaged, proving real operating scale.
  • Top lenders, credit unions, and debt buyers use January to protect recoveries and relationships.

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Benefits

Hybrid and remote work policy

Pet-friendly offices

Unlimited PTO

Flexible work hours

Generous New Parent Leave

Equity

Annual learning and development stipend

401k

Gym membership reimbursement

Medical, dental, and vision

Commuter benefits

Fun team events

Growth & Insights and Company News

Headcount

6 month growth

-3%

1 year growth

-2%

2 year growth

0%
Holland FinTech
Dec 6th, 2023
Weekly Funding Highlights - 6 December 2023

January Technologies, Inc. has secured $12m in Series B financing in a funding round led by IA Ventures.

FinSMEs
Dec 4th, 2023
January Closes $12M Series B Funding

January Technologies, a NYC-based fintech company humanizing debt collection, raised $12M in Series B funding

PR Newswire
Nov 29th, 2023
Fairplay Partners With January To Redefine Fairness In Collections

"By joining forces, we can further our goal of making the financial system work more effectively and humanely for both borrowers and lenders."—Jake Cahan, January founder and CEO. .

TechCrunch
Mar 30th, 2022
January raises $10M to be a ‘tech-enabled debt collector’

January is a tech-enabled debt collections agency