About Upstart
At Upstart, we’re united by a mission that matters: to radically reduce the cost and complexity of borrowing for all Americans. Every day, we bring creativity, experimentation, and advanced AI to reshape access to credit, helping millions move forward financially with clarity and confidence.
As the leading AI lending marketplace, we partner with banks and credit unions to expand access to affordable credit through technology that’s both radically intelligent and deeply human. Our platform runs over one million predictions per borrower using more than 1,800 signals, powering smarter, fairer decisions for millions of customers. But the numbers only hint at the impact. Every idea, every voice, and every contribution moves us closer to a world where credit never stands between people and their financial progress.
We’re proudly digital-first, giving most Upstarters the flexibility to do their best work from wherever they thrive, alongside teammates across 80+ cities in the US and Canada. Digital-first doesn’t mean distant. We’re intentional about in-person connection through team onsites, planning sessions, and moments that spark creativity and trust. And whether you choose to work primarily from home or collaborate in-person from one of our offices in Columbus, Austin, the Bay Area, or New York City (opening Summer 2026), you’ll have the support to work in the way that works best for you.
If you’re energized by tackling meaningful problems, excited to innovate with purpose, and motivated by work that truly matters, we’d love to hear from you.
The Team:
Upstart’s Servicing team is responsible for the entire customer journey after a loan is funded. We ensure that borrowers stay on track with payments, help them when they struggle to pay, and drive collections and recoveries when they are unable to pay. We do this through a combination of borrower-facing tools, customer support agents, and AI-agents, powered by Upstart’s ML-driven decision making. We deliver better financial outcomes for borrowers, and business outcomes for Upstart.
As the Principal Product Manager for Servicing at Upstart, you will lead the charge on leveraging machine learning to deliver more personalized experiences across the borrower journey, to deliver massive business impact. You will partner closely with the Machine Learning team to establish better infrastructure, process, and culture for delivering ML-based interventions, and translate that into user-facing impact by reaching the right borrowers, at the right time, with the right intervention. You’ll deliver solutions that answer questions like “when should borrowers schedule their payments?”, “ Which borrowers should receive financial hardship offers?”, “ Which support agents should take calls related to Collections?” … and much more.
How you’ll make an impact
- Define the strategy how and where ML-based interventions can have the most impact within Servicing at Upstart
- Create systems and processes that enable the team to consistently deliver ML models that drive outsized business impact
- Partner closely with other PMs and engineers across servicing to understand the borrower touchpoints and interventions that should be more personalized
- Deeply understand Upstart’s borrowers, enabling you to design systems that make the right personalization decisions
- Establish and track success metrics to assess the impact of product and operations initiatives, ensuring continuous improvement and concrete business impact.
- Leverage data-driven insights to make informed product decisions, identifying opportunities for optimization and testing hypotheses to improve key metrics.
- Make smart trade-offs to inform the ongoing product roadmap, prioritizing the features with the highest ROI and experimenting when necessary.
Minimum Qualifications
- 6+ years experience in a product management role building both ML-based systems and consumer-facing products
- Demonstrated success in driving business outcomes through a balance of quantitative metrics and qualitative understanding. You’re clever and enterprising when it comes to having the minimum data necessary to make an informed decision. Your risk tolerance is well honed.
- Strong product sense. You have independently authored and executed on a multi-quarter roadmap, and have been around to see the consequences (good and bad) of your decisions.
- Rigorous and analytical problem solving; well structured, concise, and highly effective communication.
- Ownership and growth mindset. You act like an owner. You’re often right, but humble and open minded about being wrong. You’re perpetually dissatisfied and striving to improve yourself and the team
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience building products in fintech, credit servicing, or customer support environments
- Familiarity with voice, chat, or AI-driven multi-modal UX
- Aptitude for and interest in credit and personal finance economic concepts
- Demonstrated and expressed mission orientation, and outsized results that match your passion
Position location This role is available in the following locations: Remote
Time zone requirements The team operates on the East/West coast time zones.
Travel requirements As a digital first company, the majority of your work can be accomplished remotely. The majority of our employees can live and work anywhere in the U.S but are encouraged to to still spend high quality time in-person collaborating via regular onsites. The in-person sessions’ cadence varies depending on the team and role; most teams meet once or twice per quarter for 2-4 consecutive days at a time.
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At Upstart, your base pay is one part of your total compensation package. The anticipated base salary for this position is expected to be within the below range. Your actual base pay will depend on your geographic location–with our “digital first” philosophy, Upstart uses compensation regions that vary depending on location. Individual pay is also determined by job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
In addition, Upstart provides employees with target bonuses, equity compensation, and generous benefits packages (including medical, dental, vision, and 401k).
What you'll love
At Upstart, our benefits are designed to support your health, financial well-being, family, and personal growth. Here’s what you can expect:
- Competitive compensation, including base pay, bonus opportunities, and annual equity grants that vest quarterly
- Generous 401(k) plan with Upstart matching $2 for every $1 contributed, up to $15,000 per year
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) with discounted stock purchase options for eligible employees
- Affordable medical, dental, and vision coverage, with multiple plan options - Upstart covers 90% to 100% of the cost depending on the plans you choose
- Health Savings Account contributions from Upstart for eligible plans
- Income protection benefits, including company-paid Basic Life, AD&D, and Short- and Long-Term Disability coverage, with options to purchase supplemental coverage
- Paid time off, sick and safe time, and company holidays
- Paid family and parental leave to support caregiving and major life moments
- Family-centered benefits through Carrot and Cleo, supporting fertility, parenthood, and caregiving
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) offering mental health support and life-centered resources
- Financial wellness resources, including access to financial planning tools and a financial concierge service
- Annual wellness allowance to support your physical and emotional well-being and personal development, based on what matters most to you
- Annual productivity allowance to invest in relevant tools and resources you need to do your best work, no matter where you work from
- Connection and community through team events and onsites, all-company updates, and employee resource groups (ERGs)
- Onsite perks, including catered lunches and fully stocked micro-kitchens when working from one of our four offices, located in the Bay Area, Austin, Columbus, and New York City (opening Summer 2026!).
Upstart is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer. Just as we are dedicated to improving access to affordable credit for all, we are committed to inclusive and fair hiring practices.
If you require reasonable accommodation in completing an application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please email [email protected]
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