Head of Credit Products

Socure Socure · Vertical AI · New York, NY · Hybrid · Product

Lead the definition and execution of a new line of credit score and credit-adjacent products, leveraging Socure's identity, fraud, and risk decisioning capabilities. This 0->1 leadership role requires defining product vision, strategy, and roadmap, partnering with Data Science, Engineering, Legal, and Compliance to build compliant and market-leading products for lenders and financial services.

What you'd actually do

  1. Define and communicate the multi-year product vision, strategy, and roadmap for Socure’s credit score and credit-adjacent product portfolio, ensuring alignment with Socure’s broader product strategy and growth objectives.
  2. Lead the development of products built on top of Socure’s BNPL and CRA consortia, with an initial focus on credit risk, underwriting, and adjacent financial services use cases.
  3. Identify and prioritize product opportunities at the intersection of credit reporting, first-party fraud, identity verification, underwriting, and risk decisioning, translating market needs into differentiated product investments.
  4. Partner with Data Science, Engineering, and Data teams to design scalable product capabilities, data assets, models, and feedback loops that improve risk predictiveness, product performance, and customer value.
  5. Work closely with Legal, Compliance, and other cross-functional stakeholders to ensure product design and go-to-market execution align with FCRA, CFPB expectations, GLBA, and other applicable regulatory requirements.

Skills

Required

  • 12+ years of product management experience
  • significant leadership experience owning product strategy and execution for complex B2B data, risk, fintech, or financial services products
  • 5+ years of experience leading product managers or equivalent senior product leaders across a product portfolio or major business area
  • Deep domain expertise in one or more of the following areas: credit risk, credit scoring, underwriting, lending infrastructure, credit bureau / CRA products, first-party fraud, BNPL, or adjacent financial risk products
  • Proven success building and scaling 0→1 or early-stage products
  • Strong understanding of the regulatory environment for consumer reporting and credit-related products
  • Demonstrated ability to partner effectively across Product, Engineering, Data Science, Legal, Compliance, Finance, Marketing, Sales, and Customer Success in a fast-paced, cross-functional environment
  • Strong commercial acumen

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with CFPB expectations, GLBA, dispute processes, and permissible purpose frameworks is strongly preferred.

What the JD emphasized

  • highly strategic, 0→1 leadership role
  • highly regulated markets
  • FCRA, CFPB expectations, GLBA, and other applicable regulatory requirements
  • FCRA and related compliance considerations
  • consumer disputes implications
  • compliance-sensitive operating models