ABOUT HIGHNOTE

Founded in 2020 by a team of leaders from Braintree, PayPal, and Lending Club, Highnote is an embedded finance company that sets the standard in modern card platform management. As an all-in-one card issuer processor and program management platform, we provide digital-first organizations with the flexibility to seamlessly issue and process payment cards, embed virtual and physical card payments, and integrate ledger and wallet functionalities—empowering businesses to drive growth and profitability.
We’ve raised $145M+ and have grown our team to 125+ employees. Headquartered in San Francisco, we’ve managed to build one of the most advanced payments teams in the industry, with team members in 25+ US states.
Operating through our core values of customer obsession, executional excellence, intentional inclusion, we’re helping businesses grow for the future by creating the payment products demanded by tomorrow, with the ability to solve for use cases that don’t exist yet.
We are fast-moving, hands-on, and strongly believe everyone deserves a seat at the table. We believe we’re unlocking incredible opportunities that can change the future of payments, as long as we have the right people to make it happen.

JOB DESCRIPTION:

Highnote is seeking a Senior Product Manager – Credit Servicing to lead the development of our credit servicing platform. Your work will enable Highnote’s clients—innovative fintechs, platforms, and brands—to build and scale exceptional credit experiences with robust servicing infrastructure.
You’ll be responsible for developing flexible, scalable servicing capabilities supporting the full borrower lifecycle: account management, billing, payments, collections, charge-offs, disputes, and operational tooling.
You’ll collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, design, data science, operations, compliance, and risk teams to build servicing APIs, internal tools, and client-facing dashboards that power efficient, compliant credit management for diverse business models.
You’ll bring an ownership mindset, strong product rigor, and the ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution to elevate Highnote’s platform.

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:

• 8+ years of product management experience, ideally building credit servicing, loan management, or payments infrastructure for a B2B platform.
• Domain Expertise: Deep understanding of credit servicing processes, including billing, payment allocation, collections, adjustments, charge-offs, and dispute management.
• Platform Thinking: Experience developing flexible, API-driven infrastructure supporting multiple business models and experiences.
• Execution Excellence: Proven ability to drive high-quality product delivery in complex, cross-functional environments.
• Data-Driven Decision-Making: Strong analytical skills; experience working with Data Science and Operations to define servicing metrics and iterate on performance.
• Strategic & Tactical Balance: Ability to set a high-level servicing strategy while diving deep into operational workflows, technical edge cases, and compliance requirements.
• User-Centric Mindset: Passion for designing excellent experiences for both subscribers and internal operations teams.
• Communication & Influence: Ability to align technical, business, and leadership stakeholders around servicing initiatives.
• Ownership Mindset: Treats servicing as a core business — relentlessly driving quality, scalability, and business impact.

BONUS QUALIFICATIONS:

• Experience building loan servicing platforms, credit management systems, or B2B financial infrastructure products.
• Strong knowledge of collections processes, charge-off and recoveries handling, or payment dispute resolution.
• Familiarity with ledgering systems, repayment waterfall logic, and servicing operational risk management.
• Technical fluency with APIs, payment processing systems, and data analytics tools (e.g., SQL, Looker, Tableau).
• Experience operating in highly regulated financial environments and collaborating closely with compliance and legal teams.

WHY HIGHNOTE?

• We’re a startup that allows for our employees to truly build from the ground up and impact every layer of our organization.
• We’re a team of payments obsessed individuals. While some of us come from the fintech world, some of us don’t. We value the varied backgrounds and the diverse perspectives of our employees.
• We’re small on hierarchy and big on growth. We’re a flat organization that allows everyone to have direct exposure to our leadership team. We are looking for builders who thrive in ambiguity.
• We’re backed by Oak HC/FT, Costanoa Ventures, Adams Street Partners, Westcap, and Pinegrove Venture Partners. Angel Investors include Bill Ready (CEO at Pinterest) and Renaud Laplanche (Co-Founder & CEO of Upgrade).

• Define and drive the product roadmap for Highnote’s credit servicing platform, ensuring flexibility to meet a variety of subscriber needs.
• Formulate servicing product strategy, translate it into actionable plans, and lead execution from discovery through launch and ongoing iteration.
• Design and deliver servicing capabilities across account management, billing cycles, payment processing, collections workflows, adjustments, charge-offs, and dispute handling.
• Collaborate with engineering and design to develop intuitive APIs, servicing operations tooling, and customer-facing interfaces where appropriate.
• Develop reporting and insights that help subscribers monitor portfolio health, borrower performance, and operational servicing metrics.
• Partner with risk, operations, compliance, and finance to ensure servicing solutions meet internal standards and external regulatory requirements.
• Conduct market research to understand evolving credit servicing trends, compliance shifts, and subscriber needs.
• Create clear Product Requirement Documents (PRDs) that outline user stories, technical considerations, and key success metrics.
• Define and track critical KPIs to assess product success and guide roadmap evolution.