Data Product Lead

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Kapitus is building a next-generation enterprise data and AI capability that replaces hundreds of legacy analytics workflows with governed, reusable business data products — moving the organization from producing reports to producing decisions.

As a Data Product Lead, you own data products through their full life cycle — from business problem and value hypothesis, through business case, build, launch, adoption, and usage reporting, to retirement of products and the legacy reports they replace. You are the bridge between business requirements, data engineering, governance, and customer-facing teams, and you manage products against outcomes business leaders recognize, not technical output.

This is a product-discipline role, not a hands-on engineering role. You must understand our architecture well enough to link requirements to it and hold credible conversations with engineers. Experience in our business vertical is required, not preferred: you will not be learning the language of lending on the job. AI fluency is an advantage, not a requirement.

What You Will Do

Own the Data Product Life Cycle End to End

• Identify business problems worth solving with data; clarify each product's value proposition — utility, decision enabler, or driver of new business value — and quantify expected impact before anything is built.
• Define outcome-driven metrics that link each product to business goals (revenue growth, cost, risk, customer experience), alongside standardized product KPIs — adoption, usage, quality, service levels, cost-to-serve — maintained in a metrics dictionary with agreed formulas and owners; avoid vanity metrics that measure activity instead of value.
• Own usage reporting and portfolio transparency: scorecards, value stories co-created with stakeholders, and regular reviews informing invest, pivot, or retire decisions.

Gather Requirements and Shape What Gets Built

• Own retirement: sunset policies, end-of-life roadmaps, and structured decommissioning for products — and legacy workflows — that fail to sus

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• Tuition Reimbursement: Pursue further education with up to $5,000 annually in tuition reimbursement, plus opportunities to attend relevant conferences and career development events. Managed through our LSA plan, Kapitus Academy.
• Travel Reimbursement: We also offer travel reimbursement for all work-related travel, supporting your involvement in career and personal development activities.
• Paid Time Off and Sick Time.
• Retirement Benefits : Our 401K plan is managed through Fidelity. To support your long-term financial goals, the company provides a 25% match on your contributions, up to 6% of your annual salary.

About Kapitus

Kapitus is one of the most reliable and respected names in small business financing. As both a direct lender and a marketplace built with a trusted network of lending partners, we can provide small businesses with the financing they need when, and how it is needed. We have spent our entire existence building a culture that makes us excited to come to work in the morning. Our company is fast paced, teammates need to be self-directed and have an internal motivation to do the right thing, even when the right thing takes a lot of hard work. We show our teammates our appreciation by offering great benefits, competitive pay and solid opportunity for growth.

Company Mission: At Kapitus, our mission is to help small business owners grow their organizations by providing tailored, transparent, and ethical financing solutions. We invest in every business owner’s story and we are dedicated to building lasting relationships to champion their goals. We promise to keep the best interests of our clients at the center of the financing process by operating with transparency, fairness, and integrity.

Consideration will be given to qualified remote candidates residing in states where Kapitus and/or one of its subsidiaries has an established physical presence.