Senior Director, Product Management, Fintech
Ninety million Americans—freelancers, part-time, seasonal workers, and 1099 contractors—struggle to afford care even when they have coverage. A $400 copay at the ER, a $120 prescription at the pharmacy counter, a specialist visit they've been putting off—money they need, sitting in the wrong place at the wrong moment. As Senior Director of Product Management, Fintech at Smirk, you'll design and define the Smirk Health Wallet: the place customers receive funds from Smirk or an employer and spend them on medical care, pharmacy medications, and rewards—at point of sale, in Apple Wallet, or on a GPR card. You'll turn payments into a safety net.
What you'll do
Build the Smirk Health Wallet
- Own the end-to-end Smirk Health Wallet experience: funding from Smirk and employers in, spend on medical, pharmacy, and rewards out.
- Ship the wallet where customers already are: point of sale, Apple Wallet, and a GPR card in their pocket.
- Design how funds flow—from employer contributions and Smirk rewards into the wallet, out to providers, pharmacies, and merchants—so money is there the moment care is needed.
- Make the wallet the obvious, frictionless choice at checkout, whether it's a pharmacy counter, a hospital billing office, or a card reader at a clinic.
- Partner with engineering, design, our card issuing partner, compliance, fraud and risk, and CX to ship reliable, compliant money movement.
- Use AI tools across discovery, analysis, definition, and prototyping—pressure-test ideas in hours, not weeks.
- Collaborate directly with the founders to shape what we build and why.
- Ship quickly, measure what matters, and keep improving.
Partner with the team
- Work as peers with product and engineering leaders from Lemonade, Venmo, and Instacart — no layers between you and the decisions.
- High ownership and direct founder access on one of Smirk's most strategic products.
- A remote-first team that operates on Central Time.
What you need
Experience
- 7+ years of product management experience, with meaningful time in consumer fintech, payments, or digital wallets.
- Shipped a consumer card program, wallet, P2P, or payments product at scale—you've lived with the ops, the edge cases, and the fraud.
- Built 0→1 products that reached real users, or led major fintech launches with measurable impact.
- Deep consumer empathy—you think about the person at the pharmacy counter, not the persona deck.
- Fluent using AI tools for discovery, analysis, definition, and prototyping.
- Working knowledge of the regulatory surface area—KYC, card network rules, program management—enough to ship without tripping over it.
How you work
- You've shipped in environments where the roadmap didn't exist yet — and you helped write it.
- You know how to make sharp tradeoffs with limited resources and tight timelines.
- Strong taste paired with humility.
- You sweat the details that make or break trust—like turning a card decline at the pharmacy counter from a generic "transaction failed" into "your employer's deposit lands Friday, tap to cover the gap."
- You care about the people on the other side of the screen.
Skills
- Fluent in metrics, experimentation, and A/B testing.
- Clear communicator across engineering, design, compliance, and executive audiences.
- Comfortable diving into ledger mechanics, auth flows, and settlement when the work demands it.
What you'll get
- Competitive salary + early-stage equity with significant upside, along with health benefits (of course).
About Smirk
- Smirk is building an AI-powered health insurance experience for the 90M workers traditional insurance forgot: freelancers, gig workers, and small-business employees—people who deserve better than paperwork, surprise bills, and legalese masquerading as "coverage."
- We've got the nation's largest collection of freelancers and Fortune 20 customers in the pipeline, Chubb as our carrier partner, and CHROs from Starbucks and McDonald's advising us.
How to apply
Send your résumé and a short note about a payments or wallet product you shipped—what you built, who it was for, and what you learned.
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We're an equal opportunity employer. We especially welcome candidates who've felt the gaps in the healthcare system firsthand.