Senior Product Manager

Company Description
Palmetto is a leading clean tech company on a mission to accelerate the transition to a clean energy future. With a belief that consumers can have it all, we are an uncompromising energy company that makes coming clean a no brainer. Our award-winning technology platform empowers homeowners, businesses, and entrepreneurs to adopt renewable energy through simple, scalable, and innovative solutions. Operating at the intersection of B2B and D2C, we offer software, financial products, and services that drive real environmental impact—without compromising value. We deliver end-to-end solutions for whole home electrification that put clean energy within reach for all.
Our employees are our most valuable resource. We foster a promote-from-within culture that prioritizes talent development, career growth, and purpose-driven work. Palmetto offers a comprehensive benefits package—including unlimited PTO, medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid parental leave, retirement plans, and more—so you can have it all both personally and professionally. Palmetto prioritizes people, planet, and profit—backed by a culture that values collaboration, impact, and balance. Join us in building a brighter, cleaner world.
Department Description
Palmetto Capital is the financing engine behind hundreds of thousands of clean energy installations. As Senior PM for Palmetto Capital, you will own end-to-end product strategy and execution for one or more market segments of our consumer financing business and hold product ownership of the core technical components that power our origination, underwriting, onboarding, and servicing across all segments.
This is a builder's role. You'll work in a fast-growing, rapidly diversifying business unit where the problems are interesting and the opportunity to define something meaningful is real. You'll partner with engineering, design, data, operations, and business leaders — as well as external capital providers, installer partners, and service integrators — to ship products that scale efficiently and create durable value.
This role reports to the VP of Product, Palmetto Capital.
Location
This position will be based in Charlotte, NC.
What You'll Own
Platform & Product Execution
Drive the product roadmap for key components of Palmetto’s financing origination and servicing platform — from discovery through delivery and iteration
Manage and prioritize the product backlog; partner with engineering and stakeholders to groom, build, test, and expand.
Own OKRs that tie your team's work to measurable business unit and company objectives
Evaluate and evolve product strategy based on experiment results, usage data, and market signals
Growth & Diversification
Identify, define, and build solutions that drive growth in core solar + storage and home improvement financing and expand into new asset classes and markets
Enable Palmetto to integrate with external platforms (capital providers, installer tools, data providers) to accelerate growth and capture market share
Partner with business development, operations, and servicing teams to uncover and prioritize the right problems
Customer & Market Intelligence
Develop deep expertise in Palmetto’s customer segments — homeowners, installers, capital providers, etc — through ongoing research, testing, and analysis. Be in the field and work directly with internal and external users.
Translate customer insight into clear problem definitions, scoped solutions, and confident decisions
Balance commercial and technical perspectives when navigating tradeoffs
Cross-Functional Leadership
Build strong working relationships with internal stakeholders across operations, business development, servicing, business systems, platform, data, and consumer product teams
Influence prioritization and action across dotted-line teams without direct authority
Deploy modern product development practices: ample discovery, rapid validation, outcome-based delivery, iteration.
AI & Platform Leverage
Actively identify and apply AI-powered tools and approaches to accelerate discovery cycles, improve team productivity, and make smarter use of data and platform capabilities
What We're Looking For
Experience
7–10 years of product management experience, with meaningful time in consumer finance origination, servicing, capital markets, credit/risk, or adjacent domains
Background in B2B home improvement, solar, or consumer-facing financial products strongly preferred
Experience at a high-growth startup or during a period of significant product portfolio scaling is a strong plus
Proven track record owning a roadmap, leading sprint execution, and shipping independently
Skills & Mindset
Deep fluency with platform workflows, API integrations, and decisioning systems connecting internal and third-party tools
Strong analytical orientation — comfortable defining metrics, pulling data, and connecting quantitative signals to product decisions
Iterative thinker with experience running experiments, learning from failure, and using those learnings to move faster
High-EQ communicator and influencer who can rally cross-functional teams around a clear vision without relying on authority
Bias toward action: disambiguates fast, moves toward clarity, and knows when to go hands-on
Entrepreneurial — comfortable starting from zero and building something meaningful from scratch
What Success Looks Like in Year One
You have a deep understanding of Palmetto’s origination and servicing workflows, data model, and key integrations
You've shipped meaningful product improvements that demonstrate measurable impact on growth, efficiency, or portfolio quality
You've established strong working relationships across Capital, Platform, Data, and Operations teams
You're operating largely autonomously — driving roadmap decisions, managing backlog, and running sprint activities with minimal supervision
You've defined OKRs for your domain and are tracking against them with credible data
Employment is contingent upon the successful completion of a background check.
Equal Employment Opportunity
Palmetto embraces diversity and is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, and business need. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other status protected under federal, state, or local law.
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