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Senior Product Operations Manager

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

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Salary: USD 153,000 - 187,000 / 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 investors including A16Z, Matrix Partners, DST, and Ribbit Capital, and is experiencing rapid growth. As Senior Product Operations Manager, you will operate as an early-stage general manager, shaping business strategy and execution across customer insights, go-to-market, product adoption, and operations. You'll be instrumental in making AI-native work a core capability—not just an initiative—across how the business runs. Key Responsibilities: - Partner with general managers to define vision and scale opportunities across product, sales, operations, business development, finance, and other teams - Develop roadmaps and proof points for B2B initiatives, working with cross-functional teams to execute - Run rapid experiments on go-to-market and customer adoption strategies, then systematize winning approaches into repeatable playbooks - Identify manual work in B2B operations (go-to-market, adoption, account management) that can be replaced with agentic AI workflows; partner with engineering to build and deploy them - Take AI pilots from experiment to production by creating playbooks, templates, and reference implementations for team reuse - Ensure pilots scale sustainably so subsequent teams can run them independently - Collaborate on sales content, pitch decks, and business development materials - Drive growth and operational excellence by systematically asking: why isn't an agent doing this? - Establish, monitor, and communicate performance metrics to senior leadership and the executive team - Build consensus and alignment to execute new initiatives You'll work in a hybrid model (2 days/week in-office) and may be placed where business needs are greatest as EarnIn expands into new business units. Requirements: - Bachelor's degree required; MBA or Master's degree preferred - 4+ years in Strategy & Operations, Consulting, Customer Success, Sales, Business Development, or Partnerships - Hands-on experience using AI tools or agentic workflows to automate or improve business operations (GTM, sales, customer success) - First-principles thinker; comfortable with ambiguity and solving hard problems - Proven ability to lead cross-functional projects, influence executives, and build alignment - Direct customer and partner engagement experience; comfort working with product/engineering teams and managing revenue/costs - Track record of taking pilots and experiments into repeatable, team-wide processes - Excellent verbal and written communication; strong data analytics and presentation skills - High ownership mentality; curiosity across finance, marketing, and operations - Startup or lean business unit experience where you owned work end-to-end with limited support is advantageous Stand-Out Qualifications: - SQL experience - 0-1 fintech product experience - Background in fintech or regulated, security-sensitive environments - Experience with AI governance in regulated settings

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