Director of Product

Description

Employment Type: Full-time, Exempt

Location: Sioux Falls, SD or Sandy, UT

Schedule: Monday through Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as job duties demand. 

Are You the Product Leader Who Keeps Asking What Comes Next?
 1. Do you see opportunities across the business that others miss?2. Can you turn competing priorities into a clear product direction?3. Do you want to influence what gets built, not just manage how it gets delivered?4. Do you want to lead a strong Product team and see whether what you create actually delivers results?
If that sounds like you, then you sound like us.
At Expansion Capital Group, you will help shape product strategy, guide technology investments, develop Product Managers, and influence what we build next.

About Expansion Capital Group

Expansion Capital Group provides working capital solutions to small businesses across the United States. We bring together financial services, technology, analytics, and operational expertise to help businesses grow.

As ECG grows, Product plays an important role in connecting business needs with scalable technology and measurable results.

What Could You Build Here?

• What if you could help determine where Product and technology resources are invested?
• What if your ownership continued after launch, through adoption, performance, and measurable business results?
• What if you could build the Product team and establish the practices that will support ECG as the company grows?

You will work closely with ECG's Chief Technology Officer and leaders across Product, Technology, Operations, Risk, Analytics, Legal, and Compliance. 

Your work will shape customer and partner products, shared platforms, integrations, workflow automation, decisioning, data, and artificial intelligence enabled services.

This is an opportunity to influence more than a roadmap. It is an opportunity to help build how Product works at ECG.

What You’ll Do

Shape Product Strategy and Investment Decisions

• Develop and maintain a multi-year product strategy aligned with ECG's strategic plan and annual priorities.
• Lead portfolio level prioritization and recommend tradeoffs among competing business, regulatory, and technology needs.
• Shape and evaluate new requests through ECG's intake and portfolio process.
• Develop business cases and investment recommendations that consider growth, scalability, operational efficiency, customer and partner experience, and risk.
• Evaluate build, buy, and partner opportunities alongside Engineering and Architecture.

Own Product and Platform Direction

• Own roadmaps for customer and partner facing products and shared platform capabilities, including application programming interfaces, integrations, workflow automation, decisioning, data, and artificial intelligence enabled services.
• Ensure products have accountable ownership, current roadmaps, and clearly defined measures of success.
• Partner with Engineering, Architecture, and Information Security to address security, privacy, availability, performance, and auditability.
• Identify opportunities to reuse capabilities across business functions and partner solutions.

Turn Delivery into Measurable Results

• Partner with delivery teams to translate approved priorities into execution plans while keeping Product accountable for what is built and why.
• Own backlog priority, acceptance criteria, and business sign off for releases.
• Help ensure business, operational, and partner readiness before products go live.
• Establish and report product health measures including adoption, conversion and completion rates, defects, incidents, and support trends.
• Use product analytics and customer and partner feedback to identify issues and guide continuous improvement.
• Confirm business value after delivery and recommend changes when results do not meet expectations.

Build and Develop the Product Team

• Lead, coach, and develop Product Managers.
• Establish clear objectives, accountability measures, and individual development plans.
• Build consistent product management standards and practices across ECG.
• Strengthen product management maturity and support recruiting, onboarding, succession planning, and career development for the Product team.

Now Ask yourself…
 1. Are you strategic, commercially minded, and comfortable making difficult decisions?2. Can you build alignment when leaders have competing priorities?3. Can you speak both business and technology and make complex decisions easier to understand?4. Do you enjoy developing Product Managers and building a stronger Product team?
If that sounds like you, then you sound like us.

 Work Environment

• This position is based in either our Sioux Falls, SD, or Sandy, UT office and operates in a professional office environment.
• Occasional travel between ECG offices and to partner locations may be required.

Expansion Capital Group is an equal opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics and are committed to providing an inclusive workplace where employees can contribute and succeed. 

Requirements

 Required Experience 

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field. Equivalent practical experience may be considered.
• Eight or more years of experience in product management, technical product management, or business technology leadership.
• Three or more years of people leadership experience, including coaching, performance management, and team development.
• Demonstrated success developing product roadmaps, business cases, and investment recommendations and measuring results after delivery.
• Experience leading cross functional initiatives across Product, Technology, Operations, and business stakeholders.
• Working knowledge of software development, application programming interfaces, system integrations, cloud platforms, and data driven products.
• Ability to align product investments with enterprise strategy while balancing immediate needs with long-term capability development.
• Strong understanding of lending operations, risk, and economics, including the ability to weigh cost, risk, complexity, and business value.
• Ability to work effectively with engineers and architects and translate between technical and business language.
• Strong communication, facilitation, and executive presentation skills.
• Ability to build trust and alignment across diverse stakeholder groups without relying solely on positional authority.
• Ability to focus teams on measurable outcomes while demonstrating customer and partner centered thinking, accountability, and continuous improvement.

 Preferred Experience 

• Experience in fintech, small business lending, or another regulated financial services environment.
• Experience with embedded finance or lending, partner ecosystems, workflow automation, or artificial intelligence enabled products.
• Experience supporting modernization, digital transformation, or platform strategy programs.
• Experience with Jira, Aha!, or similar roadmap tools and product analytics tools such as Mixpanel.
• MBA or advanced degree in business or technology.