# Sr Manager, Product Quality Oversight

**Company:** [Upstart](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/upstart)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Other
**Salary:** $172k – $274k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Consumer Lending Regulations, Tila, Regulation B, Fdcpa, Udaap, Compliance Testing, Operational Risk, Audit, Root Cause Analysis, Regulatory Examinations
**Posted:** 2026-06-09

> Lead and build a new Product Quality function for Upstart Bank, designing quality frameworks, governance, and oversight for lending products and servicing workflows. Requires 8+ years in consumer lending quality/compliance and 3+ years managing teams.

## Job Description

## How you’ll make an impact

- Build and lead Upstart Bank's Product Quality program, establishing the frameworks, governance, and operating model used to evaluate whether lending products are producing accurate, compliant, and intended outcomes.
- Design and implement quality methodologies, including product review checklists, sampling strategies, defect taxonomies, escalation criteria, monitoring routines, and quality reporting.
- Evaluate product outputs across lending and servicing workflows, including disclosures, credit decisioning processes, customer communications, and other regulated product experiences.
- Distinguish isolated product defects from systemic product failures by analyzing quality findings, identifying patterns, assessing customer and regulatory impact, and driving appropriate escalation paths.
- Partner with Product, Engineering, and Compliance Program Management teams to investigate root causes, prioritize remediation efforts, and improve the reliability, effectiveness, and control environment of lending products.
- Represent the Product Quality function in regulatory examinations, audits, governance forums, and cross-functional reviews while maintaining examination-ready documentation and workpapers.
- Build, develop, and mentor a growing team of quality analysts, helping establish a culture of analytical rigor, sound judgment, continuous improvement, and proactive risk identification.

## Minimum Qualifications

- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of experience in consumer lending quality control, product quality, compliance testing, operational risk, audit, or related control functions.
- 3+ years of direct people management experience leading quality, risk, compliance, audit, or control oversight teams.
- Experience designing and operating quality control or quality assurance programs focused on product, system, transaction, or operational outputs within consumer lending.
- Working knowledge of consumer lending regulations, including Truth in Lending Act (TILA), Regulation B, Fair Debt Collection Practices Act (FDCPA), and UDAAP, applied within lending products and customer-facing processes.

## Preferred Qualifications

- Experience building or scaling first-line quality control programs within a regulated bank, fintech, or consumer lending organization.
- Knowledge of automated lending platforms, digital lending products, decisioning systems, or technology-enabled credit origination processes.
- Experience developing sampling methodologies, transaction testing programs, disclosure reviews, or defect identification frameworks.
- Ability to translate quality findings into actionable recommendations for Product, Engineering, Compliance, and executive stakeholders.
- Experience supporting regulatory examinations, internal audits, governance committees, or remediation programs within a highly regulated environment.

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