Associate Product Manager, Clasp Talent
First Associate Product Manager at Clasp, a Series-B startup running student-loan benefit programs (gap lending for colleges, loan-repayment recruiting for healthcare employers). Day to day: user discovery, writing specs and tickets, keeping HRIS/payroll partner data in sync, and building dashboards to measure shipped features using SQL and product analytics tools.
- Compensation
- $85K–$100K / yr
- Location
- Remote
- Work setup
- Remote
- Seniority
- Junior
- Employment
- Full time
- Experience
- 1+ years
- Category
- Product
- Posted
Skills
Must have
- 1-3 years of experience in product, analytics, product operations, implementation, consulting, or a similar role
- Data skills: built dashboards people use, uses SQL to answer questions and check data quality, comfortable with a product analytics tool such as PostHog, Amplitude, or Mixpanel
- Measurement instinct: can define success metrics for a feature and tell real results from noise
- Systems thinking: traces how data and rules interact, spots edge cases and conflicts before launch
- User curiosity: has talked to users directly and can separate asks from needs
- Clear writing: specs and tickets easy for engineers to act on; explains technical logic to non-technical partners
- Technical comfort: understands how software gets built and works well with engineers
- Ownership: follows through on all details and flags problems early
Full description
Associate Product Manager, Clasp TalentRemote (ET and CT time zones)About Us
Clasp is a mission-driven, venture-backed startup transforming access to education and career pathways. A college education was always meant to lead to economic mobility. But with rising costs and shrinking loan availability, many working-class and first-generation students don’t have the money they need to finish school. That’s where Clasp comes in. We’re the market leader in institutionally funded gap loan programs. We partner with schools to design, launch and manage lending programs that keep students enrolled, graduating and thriving.
Fresh off our Series B, Clasp is entering its next phase of growth. Recent recognition includes:
- TIME’s Best Inventions of 2026 (Loan-Linked Hiring)
- Forbes Fintech 50
- Business Insider: Top 14 Healthcare Startups to Watch in 2026 and 43 Startups to Bet Your Career On in 2025
Our work spans two business lines:
Clasp Talent helps healthcare employers attract and retain critical talent by connecting them with diverse candidates and using student loan repayment as a powerful recruiting and retention tool. We meaningfully connect employers, educational institutions, and learners to drive mutual benefit.
Clasp Finance equips colleges and universities with lending technology to launch and operate their own private student loan programs, enabling schools to step in and support their students directly with financial aid. Recent federal financial aid changes are reshaping how institutions think about supporting their students, and Clasp Finance is poised to meet this moment.
Who We Need
Clasp is hiring its first Associate Product Manager. You'll work alongside our Product Managers across Clasp Talent to understand our users, turn what we learn into clear specs, help keep our system and partner data in sync, and measure whether what we ship is working.
This is a broad, hands-on role. You'll support discovery with students and employers, write the stories and follow-up tickets that keep engineering moving, and own the loop from launch to impact: telling the company what's shipping, building the dashboards that track it, and reporting back on what changed. You'll also be a product partner to Partner Success and Operations on complex partner setups and data quality. For example, when a participant's eligibility changes and they qualify for a lower benefit amount, you'll help work out when the new amount should take effect, what happens to payments already scheduled, and what else in our system needs to update to stay in sync.
You'll report to our Senior Product Manager, with coaching from our Director of Product, and work closely with Engineering, Design, Partner Success, and Operations. There is a clear path to Product Manager, which we're targeting in about 12 months depending on your growth and the team's needs.