Lead UX Researcher, Cleo

Quant Focused

£54.6-68.9k

+ Equity

Mid and Senior level
London

More information about location

1-2 days a week in office

Cleo

AI personal finance assistant

Posted today

Cleo

AI personal finance assistant

201-500 employees

FintechB2CArtificial IntelligenceBankingPersonal financeFinancial ServicesSaaS

Posted today

£54.6-68.9k

+ Equity

Mid and Senior level
London

More information about location

1-2 days a week in office

201-500 employees

FintechB2CArtificial IntelligenceBankingPersonal financeFinancial ServicesSaaS

Company mission

To help millions of people improve their financial health, and relate to them in a way their banks never could.

Role

Who you are

  • You’re someone who cares deeply about understanding other humans and their relationships with money, in all their complex forms
  • You’ve got a great grounding in both quantitative and qualitative research methodologies, and exercise these to deliver game-changing insights at pace
  • You’re excited to help everyone learn and test new things everyday
  • As a guide you’ll have 3+ years of experience running research in a product team or engineering squad
  • You're self directed. You can spot problems, prioritise the right ones to solve(however vague or complex), create a research plan and execute it at speed
  • You’re comfortable with both qualitative and quantitative methodologies, and know when to apply them
  • You have experience with remote testing methodologies
  • You’re an excellent communicator, with heaps of empathy

What the job involves

  • This is a hugely exciting opportunity to lead research for two of our New Ventures Product teams
  • You’ll be working as part of a cross functional team to develop Cleo into a hyper-personalised financial coach
  • Day to you’ll be working out what makes our users tick, and building products that empower them
  • You’ll also join our design guild made up of Content Designers,, Product Designers and User Researchers
  • We want to build an outstanding research function at Cleo, and you’ll play an important role in determining what that looks like
  • Leading the planning and delivery of different user research projects to help us build new features and iterate on existing ones
  • Demonstrating a strong quantitative focus to drive data-driven insights across innovative projects
  • Analysing findings and communicating actionable insights back to your team and the wider business
  • Getting your team excited about, and involved in, research at every stage, from drafting interview scripts to live calls with customers
  • Ensuring that our designs are customer-centric, running workshops to inform ideation and improvements
  • Empowering others in the business to run their own research projects, upskilling them in qualitative techniques

Salary benchmarks

Our take

People are increasingly not satisfied with the products being offered by traditional banks, which have proven slow to react to the needs of younger consumers who expect more from their everyday experiences.

Cleo was one of the first companies to make great use of chatbots that sit within Facebook's messenger app. This chatbot-first approach and Gen Z user base have given it strong virality. It now has millions of registered users, 99% of which are based in the US, leading to a decision to take a year break from the UK market to focus on its US Gen Z customers.

Its Series C funding will help the company to double down in the US, where it will make a significant increase in employee headcount, and enable Cleo to maintain and expand its service during an economic downturn.

Financial advice delivered via bots is a crowded space, so Cleo benefits from having a strong brand presence. It has gone for very bold, fun, Gen Z-focused messaging which helps it to stand out from competitors such as Emma, Plum, and Chip.

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Kirsty

Company Specialist

Insights

Rocket List 2021
Top investors

Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

43% female employees

24% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Employee endorsements

Nice people

"Cleople are unmatched. The vibes, the energy, the friendships. I genuinely love my colleagues and have developed real-life friendships. I don't know..."

Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)

Jun 2022

$80m

SERIES C

Dec 2020

$44m

SERIES B

Total funding: $137.5m

Company benefits

  • 25 days of Annual leave a year + public holidays (+ an additional day for every year you spend at Cleo)
  • 401k matching in the US and 6% employer-matched pension in the UK
  • Online courses, £150 annual budget & internal training to level up your skills
  • Regular socials and activities, online and in-person
  • Online mental health support via Spill
  • 1 month paid sabbatical after every 4 years with Cleo
  • OpenAI Plus subscription
  • Electric vehicle salary sacrifice scheme and cycle-to-work scheme
  • Life assurance and income protection via AIG
  • Medical insurance via Axa and Healthcare cash plan via Medicash
  • Performance reviews every 8 months. Generous pay increases for high performers and high-growth team members. Equity top-ups for team members getting promoted

Company values

  • Make it Happen
  • Learn at Speed
  • Bring Good Vibes

Company HQ

London, UK

Leadership

Data Scientist at Wonga, one of the companies that pioneered the smart use of data for loan decisions. Joined Entrepreneur First where Cleo was formed.


People progressing

Joined Cleo straight from Makers Academy in 2018, and became Technical Lead in 2021.

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Cleo

Annie Jackson (Head of Talent )

  • We’ve set up an internal committee of truly passionate people that are dedicated to ensuring Diversity and Inclusion is embedded in how we all operate as a team. We agree on meaningful actions, and get on with implementing them. We have three main focuses right now, which are:
  • 1) Improving SocioEconomic diversity across the company
  • 2) Increasing the number of women in Leadership roles
  • 3) More community outreach
  • Check out our 2022 Diversity and Inclusion report, here: https://web.meetcleo.com/blog/cleo-diversity-equity-and-inclusion-report-2022

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