Savi is seeking a Product Associate to join our team. This role is an excellent opportunity to build a meaningful financial offering that has a positive impact on student loan borrowers every day while working for an innovative and growing social impact startup.

Description

About Savi:

Savi is a social impact technology startup in Washington, D.C. working to solve the student debt crisis affecting 46 million borrowers by helping them discover new repayment and loan forgiveness options. Founded by long-time student loan experts and advocates, our team is composed of many student loan borrowers ourselves.

As a company, Savi is a public benefit corporation that works with hundreds of the nation’s largest employers, membership organizations, and financial institutions to provide our service as a unique student loan benefit. Organizations like TIAA, AARP, the National Education Association, and hundreds of other hospitals, universities, other employers, and membership groups trust Savi to help their communities tackle their student loan debt.

Savi has been featured in media outlets like The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNBC, and Fox, to name drop just a few. Student loan borrowers need an advocate on their side to better understand their debt, find federal forgiveness programs that will wipe away their debt, and help them all the way through the process.

Role Overview

In this role, you will play an integral role in supporting Savi’s product management. You will help manage cross-functional priorities, projects, and stakeholders to ensure effective and efficient product delivery. An exceptional communicator, you will be expected to be a self-starter who can identify open tasks and roll up your sleeves to see them through completion. This role will require work closely with a Product Manager and senior leaders across the organization to translate business and borrower needs to product requirements.

Hopefully you’re excited! Here’s what we need you for:

Work directly with our Product Manager to coordinate activities and manage workflow within the product lifecycle from requirements to prioritization to product release
Support the product backlog, including daily tracking of work across releases, research, discovery, design and development (including defect resolution/feature debt) to measure performance of releases, meet milestones and team goals
Conduct user research and analyze findings to inform the product backlog and identify customer pain points. Monitor performance and measure impact of product enhancements and initiatives using analytics tools such as Mixpanel, Metabase, etc.
Support cross-functional coordination in support of Product with internal and external stakeholders
Work alongside designers and engineers to deliver product features;
Work cross-functionally with teams to communicate and execute product launches;

About You:

The ideal candidate is a self-starter and creative thinker, has the agility and growth mindset to shift priorities and focus as needed, and most importantly, is passionate about helping student loan borrowers and building a more just and equitable system to pay for college in America. Some of the characteristics we’re looking for:

0-2+ years of product management experience, preferably working with a consumer-facing web/mobile product or service
Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, Computer Science, or related field preferred
Experience at an early stage startup preferred
Ability to synthesize business requirements into product specifications
Interest in building functional and engaging user experiences
Strong communication skills
Hands-on, driven self-starter with high initiative
Collaborative team player who can manage across business units
Passion for technology and a desire to learn and grow in a fast-paced startup environment.

Last but not least, logistics and benefits:

Full time, start date is flexible
D.C. based is preferred as our team’s hybrid homebase is at the Midtown Center DC WeWork location. Remote virtual is accommodatable as well.
Compensation: $45-65K base salary plus stock options
Great benefits! Benefits include: 5% 401K match after 6 months, 99% employer sponsored health coverage (health, vision, dental, HSA) on day one, generous annual PTO, paid sick and parental leave, pre-tax commuter benefits, and 10+ additional paid holidays annually.

Savi provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability or genetics. In addition to federal law requirements, Savi complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

Salary

$45,000 - $65,000 per year

Product Associate