Senior Product Manager (PDI)

At NerdWallet, we’re on a mission to bring clarity to all of life’s financial decisions and every great mission needs a team of exceptional Nerds. We’ve built an inclusive, flexible, and candid culture where you’re empowered to grow, take smart risks, and be unapologetically yourself (cape optional). Whether remote or in-office, we support how you thrive best. We invest in your well-being, development, and ability to make an impact because when one Nerd levels up, we all do.

We’re looking for a Senior Product Manager to lead the strategy and execution of our partner data ingestion (PDI) and reporting ecosystem. In this role, you will ensure that partner data is accurate, timely, and reliable, enabling the business to scale paid marketing, refine business intelligence, and grow partner revenue with confidence.

You’ll bring deep product expertise across fintech, consumer finance, lead generation, or data-heavy environments, and you’ll understand the business levers behind partner performance. This role requires strong ownership, outcome-oriented thinking, and the ability to dive deep into data, systems, and processes.

You will work closely with an Engineering Manager to develop a cohesive roadmap and influence cross-functional teams across data engineering, product engineering, analytics, marketing, finance, and business development. You balance long-term strategy with hands-on execution, ensuring what we build aligns with internal customer needs and business goals.

Within 1 year of joining, a successful candidate will have worked with the team to have increased partner data accuracy to >99% of accounts receivable revenue match, <1% unattributed ingestions, <1% failed ingestions, and >99% ingestions completed within 24hrs of receiving across our organization.

This role reports to the VP, Engineering.

Where you can make an impact:

Autonomy and Ownership

• We expect you to work closely with your stakeholders across the business to bring solutions and ideas. We are fixated on the growth of our business, and you will be too.

Own the Partner Data Roadmap

• Develop, maintain, and communicate a clear product roadmap for partner data ingestion, transformation, and reporting.

• Identify and prioritize the highest-impact opportunities using business metrics, customer feedback, and technical insights.

• Communicate tradeoffs clearly and gracefully to stakeholders when initiatives cannot be prioritized “right now.”

Drive Data Quality and Reliability

• Ensure accuracy, completeness, and reliability across all partner data pipelines, including ingestion, validation, modeling, and reporting.

• Work with program management, data engineering, product engineering, analytics, and marketing to reduce data quality issues and build a robust data observability layer.

Uncover Hidden Opportunities

• Identify problems and opportunities your customers may not yet see. Many growth opportunities are hidden in underlying data workflows, your ability to surface and solve them will drive meaningful business impact.

Partner and Influence Across the Organization

• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to ensure partner data powers marketing optimization, revenue reporting, decision-making, and long-term strategy.

• Translate business needs into clear technical requirements that guide engineering execution.

• Mentor team members and cultivate a culture that understands the value and impact of data products, not just the PM.

Your experience:

• 7+ years of product management experience, preferably in fintech, consumer finance, lead generation, or data-centric products.

• Demonstrated success launching impactful data or platform initiatives at scale.

• Strong data literacy—able to write SQL, understand relational models, and reason about data flows end-to-end.

• Deep understanding of ETL/ELT processes, APIs, data pipelines, and integration patterns.

• Ability to hold technical conversations with senior engineers and guide technical tradeoffs.

• Strong understanding of performance marketing and lead generation economics.

• Exceptional communication and stakeholder influence skills across technical and non-technical teams.

• Proven ability to translate ambiguous business needs into clear product requirements.

• Understanding of Lakehouse architectures, query engines, and compute platforms (e.g., Spark, Trino, Databricks, Snowflake).

• Experience building or shipping APIs, SDKs, data contracts, or client integration frameworks.

• Familiarity with data observability, telemetry, instrumentation, and monitoring best practices.

• Hands-on experience managing high-volume, multi-source datasets from a product perspective.

Where:

• This role will be remote (based in the U.S.).

• We believe great work can be done anywhere. No matter where you are based, NerdWallet offers benefits and perks to support the physical, financial, and emotional well being of you and your family.

What we offer:

Work Hard, Stay Balanced (Life’s a series of balancing acts, eh?)

• Industry-leading medical, dental, and vision health care plans for employees and their dependents

• Rejuvenation Policy – Flexible Vacation Time Off + 11 holidays + holiday company shutdown

• New Parent Leave for employees with a newborn child or a child placed with them for adoption or foster care

• Mental health support

• Paid sabbatical after 5 years for Nerds to recharge, gain knowledge, and pursue their interests

• Health and Dependent Care FSA and HSA Plan with monthly NerdWallet contribution

• Monthly Wellness Stipend, Cell Phone Stipend, and Wifi Stipend (Only remote Nerds are eligible for the Wifi Stipend)

• Work from home equipment stipend and co-working space subsidy (Only remote Nerds are eligible for these stipends)

Have Some Fun! (Nerds are fun, too)

• Nerd-led group initiatives – Employee Resource Groups for Parents, Diversity, and Inclusion, Women, LGBTQIA, and other communities

• Hackathons and team events across all teams and departments

• Company-wide events like NerdLove (employee appreciation) and our annual Charity Auction

• Our Nerds love to make an impact by paying it forward – Take 8 hours of volunteer time off per quarter and donate to your favorite causes with a company match

Plan for your future (And when you retire on your island, remember the little people)

• 401K with 4% company match

• Be the first to test and benefit from our new financial products and tools

• Financial wellness, guidance, and unlimited access to a Certified Financial Planner (CFP) through Northstar

• Disability and Life Insurance with employer-paid premiums

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents linked here .

NerdWallet is committed to pursuing and hiring a diverse workforce and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We prohibit discrimination and harassment on the basis of any characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law, so all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment.

NerdWallet will consider qualified applicants with a criminal history pursuant to the California Fair Chance Act and the San Francisco Fair Chance Act, which requires this notice , as well as the Los Angeles Fair Chance Act, which requires this notice .

NerdWallet participates in the Department of Homeland Security U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services E-Verify program for all US locations. For more information, please see:

• E-Verify Participation Poster (English+Spanish/Español )

• Right to Work Poster (English) / (Spanish/Español)

#LI-5
#LI-Remote