Product Manager - Candidate & Recruiter Platform

Product Manager, Candidate & Recruiter Platform

Remote (ET & CT time zones only – some travel required)

About Us

Clasp is a venture-backed, mission-driven startup transforming access to education and career pathways. We are revolutionizing the way employers attract and retain critical talent and the way colleges and universities support their students through education financing, all while tackling the student debt crisis. (Yep, we think BIG.) We like to think of ourselves as more than a fintech; we're a catalyst for economic mobility.

A Forbes Fintech 50 company, portfolio company of SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management, the world's largest HR professional society), and one of Business Insider's "43 Start-Ups to Bet Your Career On in 2025," Clasp is driven by our commitment to social impact and innovation.

Our work spans two business lines:

Clasp Talent helps healthcare employers attract and retain critical talent by connecting them with diverse candidates and using student loan repayment as a powerful recruiting and retention tool. We meaningfully connect employers, educational institutions, and learners to drive mutual benefit.

Clasp Finance equips colleges and universities with lending technology to launch and operate their own private student loan programs, enabling schools to step in and support their students directly with financial aid. Recent federal financial aid changes are reshaping how institutions think about supporting their students, and Clasp Finance is poised to meet this moment.

Who We Need

Clasp is looking for a Product Manager to own the candidate and recruiter experience within Clasp Talent — the end-to-end product that helps healthcare students find jobs with student loan repayment and gives employers the platform they trust to build long-term clinical pipelines.

You will own a two-sided product.

On the candidate side, you will drive activation, conversion, and retention across the applicant journey — from a candidate's first discovery of Clasp through onboarding, application, and offer signing. On the employer side, you will own the platform that healthcare employers rely on every day to source candidates, move them through pipelines, and build the talent pipelines that solve their hardest staffing challenges.

Both sides are critical. Candidates are the users whose experience defines the product; employers are the customers whose trust drives the business. The Product Manager in this role will care deeply about funnel mechanics and activation while building the platform depth that makes employer teams' daily work better.

You will report to the Director of Product, who oversees product across Clasp Talent and Clasp Finance. You will partner closely with leaders in marketing, partner success, design, and engineering, as well as your product teammate who owns the experience that begins after a candidate signs an offer. We're hiring at the PM or Senior PM level, depending on the candidate.

What You'll Do

• Own the Candidate Funnel: Drive activation, conversion, and retention across the entire applicant journey — discovery, account creation, profile completion, application, interview, and offer signing. Set funnel metrics, instrument what matters, and run the experiments that move the needle.

• Own the Recruiter Experience: Own the platform experience that healthcare employers use to source, screen, and place candidates. Recruiters log in every day and their workflow efficiency directly impacts our business.

• Build the Network Effect: Identify and ship the features that make each new student more likely to fulfill a commitment to an open role and each new employer more valuable to students.

• Deeply Understand Your Users: Spend real time with healthcare students and the recruiters who hire them. Learn what students actually want from their careers and what they fear about the job search. Watch recruiters work and understand the pressures they're under to fill critical roles. Build from what you hear, not from what you assume.

• Partner with Marketing: Work closely with student marketing on top-of-funnel performance — landing pages, conversion paths, channel-specific experiences — and own how acquisition hands off into product. We believe the line between marketing and product should feel seamless.

• Collaborate with Partner Success: Work closely with partner success to understand how employers actually use the platform, where they get stuck, and what they need to be successful. Translate employer feedback into product investment.

• Run a Disciplined Experimentation Program: Help mature the testing, instrumentation, and analysis practices that allow the team to learn fast and make informed decisions. Bring rigor to how the team measures success.

• Champion the Candidate Experience: Represent the candidate's voice in every product decision. Healthcare students deciding whether to commit to an employer are making a meaningful career and financial decision; the experience should reflect that gravity while removing every unnecessary friction.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree in a relevant field, or equivalent practical experience. We weight the work heavily over the credential.

• Experience: 3+ years in product management (5+ for Senior), with significant time spent on consumer growth, onboarding, activation, and/or two-sided marketplace products. You have shipped work that materially moved a funnel or an activation curve.

• Growth Pattern Recognition: You understand funnel mechanics, conversion optimization, experimentation, and instrumentation. You can look at a flow and identify where users drop off, why, and what to test. You have run real experimentation programs, not just one-off A/B tests.

• Two-Sided Product Sensibility: You have either worked on a marketplace or platform with two distinct user types, or you have a strong instinct for how to balance competing needs across them. You understand that the user and the customer are not always the same person.

• Customer Obsession: You have a track record of getting close to your users — talking to them directly, sitting alongside them as they use your product, and translating that contact into product decisions. You build for real people, not personas in a deck.

• Engineering Partnership: You have deep experience partnering with engineering teams. You collaborate with engineers on trade-offs and planning rather than throwing requirements over the wall.

• Data Fluency: You are comfortable with funnel analytics, cohort analysis, and experiment design. You can work with data teams to define the right metrics and hold yourself accountable to them.

• Cross-Functional Leadership: You partner naturally with marketing, customer success, design, engineering, and analytics. You can align stakeholders with different incentives around shared product goals.

• Communication Skills: Strong verbal and written communication, with the ability to explain complex ideas to both technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive leadership and external partners.

Nice to Have

• Healthcare experience.

• HR Tech or Applicant Tracking system experience

Salary

The salary range for this position is competitive and will be commensurate with the candidate’s experience, qualifications, and industry knowledge, ranging between $110,000 to $160,000 annually. In addition to the base salary, we offer an attractive equity component as part of our compensation package, providing an opportunity for eligible employees to share in the success and growth of our company. We are committed to offering competitive compensation and benefits packages to attract and retain top talent.

Work authorization
This role is not eligible for immigration sponsorship, now or in the future. Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States for any employer.

How we use AI in hiring
Clasp uses AI-assisted tools in parts of our hiring process, such as AI notetakers transcribing or summarizing interviews, scheduling, and supporting evaluation in technical assessments. Humans review applications and make every hiring decision. AI tools don't make final decisions about any candidate. You're welcome to use AI to research Clasp and prepare, but during live interviews and assessments we want to hear your own thinking, so please don't use AI tools that generate or feed you responses in real time. If you'd like to be evaluated without AI tools, need an accommodation, or have questions about how we use these tools, email [email protected] and we'll arrange another process where we can.

Equal opportunity
Clasp is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We don't discriminate based on race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, veteran or military status, citizenship status (except as required by law), or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law. Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered in line with applicable fair chance laws. If you need a reasonable accommodation during the hiring process, email [email protected].