Platform Manager
Apply NowCompany: Unit Corporation
Location: New York, NY 10025
Description:
ABOUT UNIT
Unit is a market leader in embedded finance. We offer ready-to-launch financial services - like banking and capital - and serve millions of end-users across ~100 customers, including Wix, Bill.com, Honeybook, Relay, and more.
We're repeat founders with technical backgrounds, working hard to build a successful company that we're proud to work at. Our product moves $40b+ annually and processes 12m+ API calls daily. We've raised $160m+ from top investors including Insight, Accel, and 60+ angels.
THE ROLE
We're hiring a Platform Manager to lead critical, cross-functional initiatives that support Unit's product priorities and expansion into new lines of business. Reporting to the Head of Platform, you'll drive high-impact initiatives from concept to launch. The ideal candidate has deep experience as a fintech operator-specifically with customer-facing products in banking, lending, or payments.
In this role, you'll work closely with Unit's ecosystem of partners-including product partners, clients, and banks-as well as internal teams across Product, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance to drive key launches and enhancements to our customer-facing products. This is a unique opportunity for someone who thrives at the intersection of product, partnerships, and strategy-and who's eager to shape the future of embedded finance.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
COMPENSATION
The base salary for this role is expected to be $140,000 - $170,000 per year. In addition, employees at Unit can expect generous benefits and may be eligible for equity and/or variable compensation. The final offer will be determined by factors including experience level, expertise, and location.
LIFE AT UNIT
Working at Unit means joining a global team on a mission to create a more equitable financial ecosystem. We're a fast-growing team of individuals who are passionate about their work, see the big picture and always seek to empower our clients and their end-customers.
Unit is a market leader in embedded finance. We offer ready-to-launch financial services - like banking and capital - and serve millions of end-users across ~100 customers, including Wix, Bill.com, Honeybook, Relay, and more.
We're repeat founders with technical backgrounds, working hard to build a successful company that we're proud to work at. Our product moves $40b+ annually and processes 12m+ API calls daily. We've raised $160m+ from top investors including Insight, Accel, and 60+ angels.
THE ROLE
We're hiring a Platform Manager to lead critical, cross-functional initiatives that support Unit's product priorities and expansion into new lines of business. Reporting to the Head of Platform, you'll drive high-impact initiatives from concept to launch. The ideal candidate has deep experience as a fintech operator-specifically with customer-facing products in banking, lending, or payments.
In this role, you'll work closely with Unit's ecosystem of partners-including product partners, clients, and banks-as well as internal teams across Product, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance to drive key launches and enhancements to our customer-facing products. This is a unique opportunity for someone who thrives at the intersection of product, partnerships, and strategy-and who's eager to shape the future of embedded finance.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
- Lead strategic, cross-functional initiatives to launch new products.
- Take a customer-focused and data-driven approach to defining, delivering, and iterating on products.
- Define and drive towards business outcomes tied to adoption and usage.
- Maintain a strong understanding of the fintech ecosystem to identify opportunities to implement partners that unlock exciting features for Unit's end-customers.
- Manage key partnerships end-to-end, including sourcing, negotiating, rallying internal teams, and launching.
- 5+ years of experience as an operator in fintech, ideally in banking, lending, and payments with a customer-facing focus.
- Proven track record leading complex, cross-functional initiatives in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong analytical and data-driven mindset-ability to analyze usage patterns, and make optimization decisions to improve adoption and efficiency.
- Technical fluency-we build software used by the industry's best tech and product companies.
- Comfort with switching between strategy and detailed-oriented execution.
- Strategic thinker who can produce insights and recommendations around partnership and ecosystem strategy.
- Curious, self-starting nature, driven by impact and excited to influence the future of Fintech.
COMPENSATION
The base salary for this role is expected to be $140,000 - $170,000 per year. In addition, employees at Unit can expect generous benefits and may be eligible for equity and/or variable compensation. The final offer will be determined by factors including experience level, expertise, and location.
LIFE AT UNIT
Working at Unit means joining a global team on a mission to create a more equitable financial ecosystem. We're a fast-growing team of individuals who are passionate about their work, see the big picture and always seek to empower our clients and their end-customers.