Upstart
Principal Product Manager, Growth
$188K–$260K
United States +2 · Remote · Principal · Full-time · Posted Aug 19, 2026
- Location
- United States
Remote
remote - Experience
- 8+ years of product management experience.
About the job
Own the strategy and evolution of Upstart’s end-to-end credit conversion experience, improving how customers find credit products and move from application through approval, offer acceptance, and funding.
What you'll do
- Identify and address high-impact friction across the conversion funnel, optimizing across Upstart’s credit portfolio.
- Set success metrics, analyze segmented funnel data, and prioritize opportunities using experimentation where appropriate.
- Lead cross-functional work with engineering, design, analytics, ML, marketing, compliance, and leadership; use GenAI to synthesize input, analyze data, and prototype concepts.
What they ask for
- 8+ years of product management experience, including significant B2C ownership of high-scale mobile and desktop consumer experiences with proven business impact.
- Demonstrated success improving a complex conversion funnel through product strategy, experimentation, analytics, and customer insight, and leading a team to KPIs.
- Strong quantitative judgment and experimentation skills, including experiment design, A/B testing, funnel analysis, and evaluating downstream effects.
- Experience leading complex cross-functional initiatives; excellent written and verbal communication.
Nice to have
- Experience in fintech, lending, financial services, marketplaces, insurance, or another regulated, high-consideration industry.
- Experience with personalization, recommendation systems, matching, pricing, or ML-powered consumer experiences; familiarity with Plaid or similar financial-data infrastructure.
Pay
$187,900 — $260,000 USD (base salary); $182,800 — $230,000 CAD (base salary)
Tools
GenAI, A/B testing, Plaid
AI focus
Use GenAI to synthesize qualitative inputs, conduct exploratory analysis, and prototype concepts; preferred experience includes ML-powered consumer experiences.
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