Melanie Power turns capital markets pain points into elegant automation. As senior product manager at Polly, she led the design and launch of the industry’s first truly flexible renegotiation capability, replacing manual, error-prone lock desk checks with policy-aware, automated evaluation. Having sat on a lock desk herself, Power built the feature to mirror real-world nuance—rate watches, investor rules and exception paths—so teams get speed without sacrificing control.
Her remit goes beyond a single workflow. Power partners with engineering and customers in rapid iteration cycles to remove repetitive tasks across pricing and secondary operations. Polly’s platform now automates rate monitoring, validates eligibility against lender-specific configurations and routes outcomes for approval—freeing analysts for higher-value hedging and pipeline strategy. The result is fewer bottlenecks, faster cycle times and cleaner audit trails.
Power’s product philosophy is simple: automation should be adaptable. Every lender prices differently, so tools must flex. Under her leadership, Polly continues to deliver configuration-first features that scale from emerging lenders to national shops, elevating borrower experience by accelerating downstream processes. Customer feedback underscores the impact: lock desks report meaningful time savings and originators see faster answers at the point of sale. By pairing secondary expertise with thoughtful user experience (UX), she is redefining how capital markets teams work—less swivel-chair, more signal—and proving that modern automation can be precise, explainable and lender-friendly.
Name:
Melanie Power
Title:
Senior Product Manager
Company Name:
Polly
