Founding Product Manager

Welcome to Glide!

At Glide we’re reimagining the banking experience for the modern world. Our embedded fintech platform empowers legacy financial institutions, like community banks and credit unions, to pioneer novel digital experiences for their customers.

You’ll be joining an all-star team with engineering, product, and growth experience from Stripe, Google, and Amazon. 

We’re bringing a new perspective to the decades-old financial world, and we’re hoping you can help us along the journey!

The Opportunity

As Glide’s Founding Product Manager, you’ll be a key partner to our Chief Product Officer and our first dedicated product hire. You’ll define our roadmap, launch new products, and set the tone for how we build.

This is a rare opportunity to join an early-stage company and help create a new standard in financial technology.

What You’ll Do:

Lead Product Vision & Execution

• Define and prioritize the roadmap for Glide’s marquee account opening product

• Collaborate with engineers and designers to ship fast, reliable, and secure features

• Combine market research, user feedback, and data to make informed decisions

• Develop a long-term product strategy that aligns with customer needs and business growth

Solve Real Problems for Real Customers

• Partner directly with community banks and credit unions to understand their biggest pain points

• Translate complex workflows into intuitive, scalable products

• Define success metrics and iterate quickly based on learnings

• Own the full product lifecycle—from discovery through launch and adoption
  

Shape Culture, Process & Product Thinking

• Establish product development best practices from the ground up

• Drive a fast, iterative build-measure-learn loop in partnership with engineering

• Ensure alignment across sales, marketing, ops, and GTM efforts

• Help shape the product org and culture as we scale

Who you are, and the experience we’re looking for:

• 5-7+ years of experience in product management, ideally in fintech or enterprise SaaS

• Experience working in early stage startups

• Experience building and shipping B2B products with complex workflows.

• Strong technical acumen—comfortable working with engineers and making informed trade-offs

• Customer-first mindset with the ability to translate insights into delightful product experiences.

• Data-driven approach—leveraging metrics to drive decision-making and experimentation.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to influence cross-functional teams.

What will make you stand out as a candidate:

• Prior experience working on banking, lending, or payments products.

• Familiarity with AI-powered automation and decisioning tools.

• Startup experience—comfortable with ambiguity and high ownership.

• Experience working on 0 → 1 products and scaling them.

• Degree in computer science, or software development experience.

Why Join Now?

This is a unique opportunity to join Glide as a foundational leader. You won’t just support the business, you’ll help build and shape it. From defining our internal systems to driving strategic priorities, you’ll have true ownership and a seat at the table as we grow. If you're energized by building from scratch, leading cross-functional impact, and leaving your mark on how a company operates at every level, we’d love to hear from you.

And finally, a brief overview of Glide’s benefits package:

💸 Competitive Compensation:

You’ll receive a base salary of $120,000-$170,000, depending on years of related experience, and a generous equity package for joining us at Glide.

❤️ Wellbeing Credits (for US employees)

Besides stellar health, dental, and vision insurance, we offer a $100 monthly health and wellness stipend to help you stay active and healthy!

🥗 Lunch on us (for US employees)

We’re huge foodies, so every member of the Glide team received a $100 weekly stipend for lunch or groceries.  No one goes hungry around here :)

🌴 Unlimited PTO and Sick Days 

We trust our team to balance their responsibilities and well-being, so our unlimited PTO and sick day policy empowers everyone to take the time they need without unnecessary red tape.

💼 Hybrid Working Environment

We’re an actively expanding team, and in our Madison Square Park headquarters and are excited to grow an engaging in-office culture—ideally, our NYC-based team members will join us in the office three days a week to help make that vision a reality.