Product Manager — Candidate & Recruiter Platform

PRODUCT MANAGER — CANDIDATE & RECRUITER PLATFORM Remote (ET & CT time zones only – some travel required) About Us Clasp is a venture-backed, mission-driven startup transforming access to education and career pathways. We are revolutionizing the way employers attract and retain critical talent and the way colleges and universities support their students through education financing — all while tackling the student debt crisis. (Yep, we think BIG.) We like to think of ourselves as more than a fintech; we're a catalyst for economic mobility. A Forbes Fintech 50 company, portfolio company of SHRM (Society of Human Resource Management — the largest HR organization out there!) and recipient of "Startup of the Year" by StartUp Boston, Clasp is driven by our commitment to social impact and innovation. 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. Join us on our journey to give power to learners and unlock fulfilling careers that drive positive change in their communities and beyond. What We Need Clasp is looking for a Product Manager to own the candidate and recruiter experience within Clasp Talent — the end-to-end product that helps healthcare students find jobs with student loan repayment and gives employers the platform they trust to build long-term clinical pipelines. You will own a two-sided product. On the candidate side, you will drive activation, conversion, and retention across the applicant journey — from a candidate's first discovery of Clasp through onboarding, application, and offer signing. On the employer side, you will own the platform that healthcare employers rely on every day to source candidates, move them through pipelines, and build the talent pipelines that solve their hardest staffing challenges. Both sides are critical. Candidates are the users whose experience defines the product; employers are the customers whose trust drives the business. The Product Manager in this role will care deeply about funnel mechanics and activation while building the platform depth that makes employer teams' daily work better. You will report to the Director of Product, who oversees product across Clasp Talent and Clasp Finance. You will partner closely with leaders in marketing, partner success, design, and engineering, as well as your product teammate who owns the experience that begins after a candidate signs an offer. What You'll Do - Own the Candidate Funnel: Drive activation, conversion, and retention across the entire applicant journey — discovery, account creation, profile completion, application, interview, and offer signing. Set funnel metrics, instrument what matters, and run the experiments that move the needle. - Own the Employer Platform: Own the platform experience that healthcare employers use to source, screen, and place candidates. Recruiters log in every day and their workflow efficiency directly impacts our business. - Build the Network Effect: Identify and ship the features that make each new student more likely to fulfill a commitment to an open role and each new employer more valuable to students. - Deeply Understand Your Users: Spend real time with healthcare students and the recruiters who hire them. Learn what students actually want from their careers and what they fear about the job search. Watch recruiters work and understand the pressures they're under to fill critical roles. Build from what you hear, not from what you assume. - Partner with Marketing: Work closely with student marketing on top-of-funnel perfor