Director - New & Strategic Initiatives - Online Lending Platform

Director- New & Strategic Initiatives

Role :

- Looking for ownership-driven people looking to take responsibilities beyond their years of experience.

- This is an excellent opportunity for anyone interested in getting in early at a startup with tremendous scale potential, as well as folks looking to do new product development, growth operations and business development etc.

Key Responsibilities :

- Work with key stakeholders to solve for the biggest impediments to scale

- Build new industry segments and launch new products initiatives in the SMB lending and payments space

- Assess industry segments and product opportunities and evaluate landscape for prospective products, platforms and channel partners

- Listen to the needs of the market and use insights to create and deliver high impact scaleable products/initiatives for customers and company

- Build user centric designs, flows and get the product live in a cross functional environment

- Develop the entire product vision - lower cost of execution and processing times and drive process excellence by building products that leverage data and automation.

- Owning the complete product development cycle from ideation to launch including conducting on ground customer research, product market fit, process workflows and designs, pilot partnerships and go to market

- Executing end to end high impact strategic initiatives and partnerships with leading corporates and firms - including pitching, negotiations and contracting

- Be proactive about solving problems even if it's outside of your area and be ready to take on additional initiatives and responsibilities as they emerge

- Seek out opportunities to be a leader and do everything you can to help the company achieve its larger objectives

Desired Skills and Experience :

- 7-10 years of prior overall experience with stints in FinTech/Financial Products/Consulting or an entrepreneur is preferred.

- Demonstrated ability to think both strategically and tactically including the ability to formulate data-driven and result-oriented decisions.

- Self starter and ability to prioritize in an ambiguous environment.

- Good interpersonal, communication (spoken and written) and influencing skills and an ability to navigate a complex and unstructured cross-functional environment.

- Strong execution orientation - needs to be able to get things done, and fast.

- Excellent Product Judgment: You have an in-depth understanding of what makes a user experience good or bad, and strong intuition for what people want to do.

Appreciation for Detail :

- You easily recognize aesthetic and functional details and can make pragmatic decisions about what details are actually important.

- Ideal candidate should be hungry, proactive, and outward-oriented, detail oriented with a bias for action and delivering results.