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Senior Product Builder

Earnin - Mountain View, CA, United States - Hybrid - posted 2026-10-16

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Salary: USD 229,661 - 280,697 / annual

EarnIn is a fintech pioneer in earned wage access, enabling paycheck-to-paycheck workers to access their earnings in real-time without mandatory fees, interest rates, or credit checks. The company is backed by top-tier VCs including A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, and Ribbit Capital, and is experiencing rapid growth. As a Senior Product Builder, you will own technical product strategy and drive AI-native product development across the organization. Your responsibilities include: • Define and own technical product strategy in partnership with engineering, making architectural decisions and enabling AI-powered product capabilities • Rethink the product development lifecycle by replacing manual friction with agentic workflows—building evaluation pipelines, automated PR hygiene, deployment gating, and generation-to-merge metrics that make governed AI fast • Define quality standards for AI-powered products, working with engineering to set benchmarks and quality gates that determine readiness to ship, with results visible across teams • Graduate pilots to production by converting engineering experiments into reusable libraries, templates, and reference implementations that other teams can fork and ship quickly • Lead zero-to-one product initiatives from idea to launch, including learning EarnIn's regulatory and compliance landscape, using user research and data analytics to identify opportunities, and running experiments to refine products • Lead cross-functional teams of engineers, designers, researchers, and analysts; define ambitious OKRs and monitor success metrics • Communicate product vision, roadmap, and outcomes to executive leadership and build consensus for new initiatives This is a hybrid role based in Mountain View HQ requiring 2 days per week in-office. REQUIREMENTS: • 4+ years of relevant industry experience in product management or engineering • Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Engineering, Information Systems, or related field (or equivalent industry experience) • Hands-on experience with AI-native product development lifecycles • Proficiency working across the full stack when needed • Strong analytical skills using data to inform product decisions and drive metrics improvement • Deep empathy for user needs • Exceptional communication skills with executive leadership and stakeholders • Comfort with rapid experimentation and ability to build alignment across teams and functions • Creative problem-solving for complex challenges STAND-OUT QUALIFICATIONS: • Experience in fintech or regulated, security-sensitive environments with knowledge of regulatory requirements • Hands-on work with AI governance (bias evaluation, audit logging, model cards) • Exposure to multi-step reasoning pipelines or human-in-the-loop system design

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