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Unique Software Development2020 – 2021Dallas, TX

Heartland Capital

Product Manager

Product lead on a rent-to-own contract and approval platform — from configuring a building and pricing it with a complex calculator, through a structured, multi-stage approval workflow.

Context & problem

Heartland Capital needed to manage rent-to-own contracts end to end. A customer picks the building they want — like a carport — and the monthly payment is calculated from inputs like term length and creditworthiness.

Underneath was a messy, ad-hoc approval process. The core product challenge was putting structure into it: defining the stages, the actions required at each one, and what had to happen for a contract to progress.

What I did

  • Drove discovery, wrote requirements, owned all UX, and led delivery as product lead.
  • Designed a fairly complex pricing calculator that derived monthly payments from term length, creditworthiness, and other inputs.
  • Defined the approval workflow from a messy process — mapping stages, the actions needed at each, and the rules for progressing to the next.
  • Designed an applicant-facing status site where customers could track progress and upload documents like a driver's license.

Outcome & impact

  • Turned a messy, manual approval process into a clearly structured, multi-stage workflow.
  • Gave applicants self-service visibility and document upload, reducing back-and-forth.