Lint Finance is a consumer fintech helping people manage their money and recurring financial commitments with greater confidence. As a volunteer Product Manager, I worked with the team to shape product direction, simplify complex financial workflows, and create an experience that felt intuitive and accessible.
Most personal finance tools either overwhelm users with raw data or oversimplify to the point of being useless. Users struggle to see their real obligations, plan ahead, and feel in control of recurring commitments without spreadsheets or anxiety.
- Give users a clear view of their spending, bills, and cash flow.
- Help users manage their money with less effort.
- Reduce the stress of keeping up with recurring financial commitments.
- Encourage better financial habits through planning and automation.
Reviewed the existing product experience to identify friction points and opportunities for improvement. Assessed key user journeys, recurring financial workflows, and feature gaps to inform product priorities.
Focused the product strategy on simplifying the highest-value financial workflows first: clarified the core user journeys, sequenced roadmap work around recurring commitments and money management, and used feedback from product reviews to keep new requests from adding unnecessary complexity.
- Collaborated with engineering to align scope and delivery timelines
- Iterated on features based on internal feedback and product reviews
- Partnered with design on flows that translate complex finance into simple decisions
- Helped sequence roadmap to focus on core value before enhancements
Execution was difficult because the product had to make complex financial commitments feel simple while accommodating competing stakeholder requests, evolving requirements, and limited delivery capacity without fragmenting the core experience.
Improved clarity and usability of core financial workflows by simplifying key user journeys and aligning product priorities around helping users manage recurring financial commitments more effectively.
- Simplifying core user flows creates more value than adding new features, especially in complex fintech products
- Clear prioritization is critical when balancing stakeholder requests with user needs and product focus
- Improving existing products requires continuous refinement of structure, not just feature delivery