Product Manager

Product Manager / Senior Product Manager, Underwriting & LeadGen Capabilities Hive Financial Systems  ·  In office at Atlanta, GA (Buckhead)  ·  Individual Contributor  ·  Mid to Senior About the Role Hive Financial Systems creates the software that lenders use for Loan Management. Our Underwriting and Lead Gen teams are the heartbeat of providing capabilities to find customers and determine who to provide loans. This role owns the systems, processes, and capabilities that execute that policy: the decision engine, the verification workflow, lead decisioning, scoring integration, and the contracts that carry a decision downstream. We are hiring a Product Manager or Senior Product Manager to own these capabilities from problem discovery through adoption. You will define what to build and why, and you will be accountable for the quality of acceptance criteria, the health of your backlog, and whether what ships gets used. You will report directly to the Product and Technology Leader. That is deliberate — there are no intermediate layers between you and the decisions, which means faster context, faster feedback, and a steeper growth curve than a comparable role inside a deeper organization. What You Will Own Acceptance Criteria as the key to Quality. Every acceptance criteria you create is written as Given/When/Then acceptance criteria before any downstream work begins — precise, testable, and unambiguous, covering negative, functional, technical, and test considerations. QA writes automated tests directly from your acceptance criteria which truly determines the quality of our work. Backlog Health and Work Breakdown. You maintain a groomed backlog with 40 to 60 percent of the next sprint's stories ready, break work into increments of fourteen days or less even in unfamiliar areas of the product, and ensure every story sits under an epic with a measurable goal. You drive story-mapping and journey-mapping sessions and give your teams a forward-looking pipeline so they always know what is next and why. Roadmap and Technical Flow. You develop and maintain the roadmap for your area and publish it where the whole team can see it. You understand the technical operational flow end to end — you can explain where a decision physically travels, which external interfaces it depends on, and what breaks when one of them is slow or unavailable. Measurement. You instrument for effectiveness, efficiency, flow, and product health, and you capture a baseline before launch rather than reconstructing one afterward. Analytics are part of the definition of done, not a follow-up story. Value and ROI Discipline. You begin with the end in mind: every piece of work carries a measurable outcome before it starts, and you challenge the value of work items so the team spends its capacity on the highest-ROI initiatives. You are as willing to kill, defer, or shrink work as you are to start it, and you can name what you chose not to build and why. ...