Senior Product Manager

Banyan Infrastructure is a fast-growing fintech company on a mission to revolutionize how the world invests in renewable energy. Our platform empowers banks and funds to channel billions of dollars into projects that support a sustainable future. We're a passionate team of innovators who thrive on solving complex challenges and making a tangible impact.

Why consider this opportunity?

Banyan is growing rapidly and seeking a Senior Product Manager to help develop product offerings that automate inefficiencies and delight our customers. This is an exciting opportunity to bring modern and intuitive experiences to traditionally rigid and outdated industries. The Senior Product Manager will be integral in product development from vision through launch and scale. They will research, brainstorm, and analyze opportunities, and will set the direction of their product area through evolving the vision and developing the product strategy. This role will provide significant autonomy and creativity in work as well as plenty of opportunity for growth. 

Our team is made up of bright, mission-driven individuals. We are passionate about using technology to solve sustainability challenges for our planet. We value learning, curiosity, and collaboration. We strive to build a supportive team that values difference and is always willing to lend a hand.  

This role reports to the Head of Product Management and works a hybrid weekly schedule (3 days in office/2 days remote) with the flexibility to adjust on an ad hoc basis. We will prioritize candidates located in the San Francisco Bay Area who are able to come into the office regularly.

What you’ll do:

• Be the steward of your product area, integrating customer and market signals, defining the product vision and strategy, prioritizing the work, establishing success metrics, planning feature sets that drive customer value, and deeply understanding customers’ needs to fuel growth and retention
• Set the product area vision based on the overall Banyan product and company vision, and define the product strategy to ensure growth through existing use cases and new opportunities
• Engage directly with internal and external customers, partners, and other climate financiers to gain insights into their biggest pain points and transform their needs into deliverables that drive the business value of our product as well as integrating feedback to improve product plans
• Be a user advocate while conveying functional process requirements to technical audiences using detailed product specifications, including business reasons and use cases to translate the big picture into effective requirements
• Work closely with the Engineering team through technical discussions, Agile/Scrum sprint execution, quarterly planning, and backlog prioritization to drive product execution
• Communicate the business value and technical rationale using analytics and research
• Collect and analyze quantitative data as well as qualitative research to inform product development to ensure data-driven decision making and measurements of success; identify, prioritize, and iterate on product opportunities as well as existing features
• Plan product launches, collaborate with stakeholders on marketing activities, documentation, support requests, and sales enablement
• Work with designers, other product managers, customer success, and cross-functional teams to deliver and support solutions that make our customers successful and provide tangible value

What you’ll need:

• Experience as a Product Manager at a fast-paced high growth startup focused on SaaS or Fintech
• Experience defining product strategy and roadmaps
• Proven track record of distilling complex and ambiguous situations into actionable, bite-sized milestones for your team
• Experience partnering with engineering and design teams to define, build, and maintain products which are critical to growth, engagement, and retention
• Deep customer empathy and intellectual curiosity, with a demonstration of active listening skills to elicit and understand customer business challenges
• Deep analytical, prioritization, and problem solving skills, enabling gathering, researching, and analyzing inputs from multiple sources including market data, customer services, sales, etc. to define business requirements and MVPs
• Ability to participate in technical discussions with engineers while also discussing complex fintech products with non-technical customers, and an appreciation of the realities of building and managing complex software services at scale
• Excellent communication, facilitation, and presentation skills to surface needs, articulate and explain features and decisions, and gain alignment to drive projects forward
• A collaborative mindset and an ability to build strong cross-functional partnerships
• Intellectual curiosity, self-awareness, and ability to learn quickly and adapt
• Enthusiasm for Banyan’s mission and alignment with our values
• Experience with ClimateTech, Sustainability, or climate finance is a plus

We are unable to provide H1B visa sponsorship for this role. US work authorization required. 

How we’ll support your growth and success:

• Work closely with the founders, executives, and cross-functional teammates
• Professional development opportunities to further skills and knowledge
• Opportunity to learn the ins and outs of capital markets, financial products, and the technologies that drive the sector’s innovation 
• A collaborative and supportive team of smart, passionate people who are all focused on a common goal

Compensation: $145,000 - $185,000 DOE

Our benefits package is designed to allow team members to be their best selves, in and out of the workplace. We offer 100% paid health benefits for employees through a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA), 401K with 6% match, at work meal offerings via MealPal and commuter benefits program. We prioritize your well-being and growth through professional development, parental leave program and a flexible time off policy. Our headquarters is centrally located between Bart and Caltrain in San Francisco, CA at 2nd & Folsom. 

Confidence can sometimes hold us back from applying for a job. We'll let you in on a secret: there's no such thing as a 'perfect' candidate. We believe diverse perspectives and backgrounds are critical to building great technology. Our goal is to cultivate an environment where people feel valued and respected. So, however you identify and whatever background you bring, please apply if this role would make you excited to come to work. Banyan is an equal opportunity employer.