Product Director - Mortgages

About the role

Bridgit, a non-bank lender helping Australians access property equity, is looking for a Product Director - Mortgages to own the product vision and delivery roadmap for its core lending experience. This is a senior leadership role at the intersection of product strategy, lending operations and technology, working directly with the executive team and accountable for delivering the product.

Key responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end product strategy for the lending platform, from origination and credit decisioning through to settlement and post-settlement servicing.
• Shape and execute a multi-year roadmap balancing customer outcomes, regulatory requirements and commercial growth targets.
• Lead Phase 2 of the ERHL product expansion, including quote scenario tools, open banking integration, arrears automation and discharge workflow improvements.
• Lead a cross-functional squad of product managers, engineers, designers and lending operations specialists.
• Drive stakeholder alignment across technology, credit, compliance and finance, and build business cases for strategic lending initiatives up to board approval.

Required profile

• 10+ years in product management, with a senior or director-level lending or financial services background.
• Deep understanding of Australian mortgage origination, servicing and compliance, including APRA guidelines, responsible lending obligations and the broker distribution model.
• Proven track record building complex product roadmaps in regulated environments.
• Strong commercial acumen: able to own a P&L narrative, build a business case and defend it to a CFO.
• Experience working with engineering teams in an agile environment, and strong communication and influencing skills.

Required skills

• Agile product management and roadmap planning.
• Comfortable reading pull requests and system architecture diagrams.
• Bonus: open banking or CDR data products, fintech or neobank lending platforms, NestJS/Node backends or Vue-based CRMs.

What we offer

• Extra days off: birthday leave, kudos leave and an additional paid day for life events or mental health.
• Two weeks of remote work per year.
• Training and development budget and internal learning programmes.
• Generous parental leave and discounted gym membership.
• Catered team lunches, a social calendar and a dog-friendly Sydney HQ with a rooftop.