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About the role
We're looking for an experienced, analytical and customer-first Senior Product Manager to join our New Products team. You’ll work closely with the MD to incubate products from 0→1 and scale them to millions of users. In our flat structure with high ownership, you’ll shape Lendable’s next growth vectors while leading large, high-calibre engineering teams to build category-defining products.
You’ll report to the VP of Product, but own your product lines end-to-end—driving strategy, execution, and cross-functional alignment. This role requires someone who thrives in highly technical environments and brings strong engineering leadership, operational excellence, and the ability to influence senior stakeholders.
What You'll Do
Strategise: Define the future of consumer finance
- Partner with the VP of Product and the MD to develop long-term product strategies (5–10+ years out)
- Translate complex market signals and consumer trends into clear product direction
- Drive strategy conversations with senior leadership, owning the narrative behind new product investments
- Explore how AI and automation can create defensible competitive advantages
Build: Lead 0→1 product development
- Take products from concept to validation, MVP, and early scale
- Define scope, experimentation plans, and success metrics for each new product
- Ensure financial models, pricing assumptions and scalability metrics are validated early
- Build cross-functional alignment across engineering, design, finance, ops, and marketing
Operate: Drive execution with deep engineering partnership
- Lead large cross-functional engineering squads, ensuring alignment, clarity and high-velocity delivery
- Run sprint planning, roadmap sessions, and stand-ups—optimising engineering output and resource allocation
- Make daily product decisions that directly influence technical direction, architectural choices, and prioritisation
- Go deep technically with engineers on implementation details, trade-offs, and system design
- Conduct customer research, user testing, and SQL-based data analysis to generate insights
- Anticipate operational, technical, and regulatory bottlenecks well in advance and orchestrate dependencies
- Partner with Finance and Ops to design scalable operational models
- Collaborate directly with marketing on value prop, positioning, and acquisition strategies
- Continuously validate assumptions post-launch through experimentation and analytics
Collaborate: Drive cross-functional success
- Create alignment across engineering, design, data, operations, marketing, and leadership teams
- Hold cross-functional partners accountable to delivery timelines and product outcomes
- Lead end-to-end discovery sessions and ideation workshops with senior stakeholders
- Communicate complex technical and strategic decisions with clarity to engineering and non-technical audiences
What we're looking for
Essential experience
- 3+ years of product management experience; 5+ years in product, strategy, or analytics
- Experience building complex regulated financial products (e.g. current accounts, debit cards, lending) is a strong bonus
- Proven success taking new products from concept → launch → early scale
- Experience leading large engineering teams or multi-squad delivery in high-growth or ambiguous environments
- Expertise in experimentation, A/B testing, and data-driven development
- Technical fluency: SQL proficiency required; bonus for coding familiarity
Core capabilities
- Engineering leadership: Ability to influence and guide large technical teams, optimise velocity, and drive aligned execution
- Risk-taking mindset: Comfortable making bold bets in ambiguous environments
- Strategic thinking: Strong synthesis of customer insights, data, and commercial requirements
- Operational excellence: Sharp prioritisation and ability to focus teams on high-impact work
- Stakeholder management: Skilled at aligning diverse teams around ambitious product strategies
- Leadership communication: Credible communicator with VP and C-suite, able to defend decisions and influence direction
Ideal background
- Experience in fintech, consumer finance, or adjacent industries
- Time spent in startups/scale-ups or flat organisational structures
- Strong enthusiasm for emerging technologies and their applications in finance
Interview process
- Intro call with Talent Team
- Take-home exercise (5 days)
- Take-home debrief & case study with VP of Product
- Final round:
- MD interview | 45 minutes
- Engineering interview (2 engineers) | 45 minutes
- CPO | 30 minutes
Life at Lendable
- Winning team: the opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies
- Flexible working: flexible approach tailored to each role. Hybrid roles require three days in-office weekly; fully remote roles include regular opportunities for in-person connection through socials and off-sites
- Socials & connection: opportunities and events to come together, socialise, and get to know each other beyond the office walls
- Health coverage: support for your physical and mental wellbeing, including private health cover
- Retirement & savings: long-term financial wellbeing through retirement savings plans
- Employee referral programme: earn a competitive bonus when you refer successful new team members
- Office meals & snacks: enjoy a fully stocked kitchen, plus complimentary lunches prepared by in-house chefs on in-office days at select locations
- Sustainable commuting: cycle-to-work and electric vehicle salary sacrifice schemes available in select locations
Please note: The availability and details of specific benefits vary by location and role. For more information, please speak to your Talent Partner.
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