Product Manager

Job Description

As Product Manager, you'll drive growth by leading product strategy and delivery across Brighte's lending experience. You'll optimise and automate the loan application journey to reduce friction, boost conversion, speed decisions, and build scalable, compliant systems.

Bring your strong lending expertise and a bias for execution, using data, experimentation, and emerging AI to streamline verification, underwriting, and customer application workflows.

What You'll Do

• Define and deliver product strategies, roadmaps, and features that improve conversion and customer experience across the lending funnel.
• Own the end‑to‑end loan application strategy and experience, balancing growth, risk, compliance, and customer trust.
• Use funnel analytics, experimentation, and A/B testing to identify friction points and continuously optimise onboarding, eligibility, application flow, and approval outcomes.
• Conduct market and competitive analysis across lending, BNPL, and fintech to identify gaps and opportunities.
• Drive automation‑first thinking across lending workflows to reduce manual work and improve scalability in a regulated environment.
• Improve and automate key processes including data capture, identity verification, document handling, decisioning workflows, credit policy execution, and payment/repayment flows.
• Identify and ship high‑impact AI opportunities across the lending funnel while ensuring safe, responsible, and compliant use of AI.

What You'll Bring

• Product management experience (approx 3-5 years), ideally in fintech, banking, or a fast-growing software company.
• Strong track record driving automation across workflows - reducing manual verification, improving decision speed, improving scalability.
• Highly data-driven with the ability to translate objectives into measurable funnel metrics and growth levers.
• Strong analytical and experimentation mindset - conversion optimisation, drop-off analysis, A/B testing.
• Self-starter with strong judgement and the ability to influence without authority across teams and functions.
• Experience working on lending and payment-related products such as loan applications and origination, BNPL or regulated instalment loans, payments, repayments, or loan-related servicing flows, identity verification or customer data verification is highly advantageous.
• Proven experience delivering products in regulated environments, working closely with risk, compliance, and legal.

What's in it for you?

• Flexible working arrangements to suit individual needs and a hybrid work model. Our office is designed for collaboration, creativity and balance between office engagement and remote flexibility. Our in-office days are Monday through Thursday (4 days), with Friday as a remote day.
• Free lunch! Yes, there is such a thing! Kickstart your week with our Monday Mingle meaning lunch on us and great company. From tacos, to sushi, to charcoal chicken, it's a delicious way to catch up, unwind and connect.
• Get social. We host a range of social activities at Brighte. A fan-favorite being our weekly Thursday social event, where you can catch up with colleagues over a drink, snack and a game of table tennis.
• We want our employees to share in Brighte's success. You will be given an opportunity to join our Employee Share Option Plans (ESOP).
• Snacks galore - who doesn't love that? Our thoughtfully stocked pantry includes snacks to suit your every mood. Fresh bread, protein bars, popcorn, fresh fruit, chocolate, soy crisps, cookies - you name it! We also offer a carefully curated collection of wines and beer on tap for those looking to unwind or enjoy a social moment.
• End-of-trip facilities. Cycle in to work, lock up your wheels and have a shower in our end-of-trip facilities, which come complete with towel service and hair dryers.
• Anniversary leave - your dedication at Brighte won't go unnoticed. Enjoy an extra day to celebrate your work anniversary with us.

Diversity and Inclusion

At Brighte, diversity isn't just something we talk about, it's something we live every day. We believe that innovation thrives when people feel empowered to bring their whole selves to work. Our inclusive culture is built on respect, collaboration, and the celebration of individuality.

Named LinkedIn's #10 Top Australian Start Up (2021), we know we wouldn't be anywhere without our investors, who believe in our mission and the opportunities that lie ahead for a brighter future.

Airtree Ventures, Grok Investments, Kim Jackson and Scott Farquhar's Skip Capital, and Qualgro Partners all continue to support Brighte in making this dream a reality!

If you want to join this mission-driven, inclusive, and highly collaborative team, click apply and upload your resume! All applicants will receive a response.

As part of our process, we require all candidates to undertake references and background checks, which include a police check, anti-money laundering and bankruptcy checks.