Product Manager, Lightyear
+ EMI stock options that vest monthly after a one-year cliff
More information about location
Office located in Old Street, London
Investing, with an edge
Open for applications
Investing, with an edge
21-100 employees
Open for applications
+ EMI stock options that vest monthly after a one-year cliff
More information about location
Office located in Old Street, London
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a simple and approachable way to invest money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of product management experience building FinTech products
- You have a track record of building financial systems in regulated markets, ideally in investments
- You can create a strategic vision for the product that aligns with company goals and execute on it
- You have background in engineering or analytics with extensive hands-on experience
- You are adept at simplifying complex trade-offs and getting buy-in from your team and the company
- You are data driven and can connect data points from across disciplines (e.g., user research, product analytics) to make decisions with the customer in mind
What the job involves
- As an early product hire, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping our product and company direction
- Take ownership of large parts of our ambitious roadmap to bring the growth to our product in the UK and European markets
- Provide research-based understanding of the European financial landscape, investment instruments, and customer needs
- Improve product quality - understand where users experience pain when they invest, and build features to solve this
- Ensure smooth execution between internal teams and external partners, integrating complex financial products
- Build a passion for investing (if you don’t already have one!)
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Lightyear is building a stock trading app that provides users with commission-free investment opportunities. It aims to reduce the barrier of entry to investing (users can invest from £1) and simplify the seemingly complicated nature of investing.
The company differentiates itself through make investing extremely easy. In only a couple of minutes, users create an investment account and start investing. Moreover, Lightyear aims to provide users with intuitive tools that allow them to make informed decisions.
Lightyear has attracted an impressive level of investment which has been used to fuel its expansion into European markets. It is further consolidating its success by releasing a much-demanded web app, allowing its users to manage their portfolio at a desk rather than just on the small screen. This gives it an edge against European rivals who are yet to publically launch their web platforms, and Lightyear will be sure to exploit this early mover advantage.
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Company Specialist
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back within 2 weeks
57% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
Opportunities to learn
"It's a small - but growing - team so you have the opportunity to create impact in so many different areas of the business!"
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Jul 2022
$25m
SERIES A
Sep 2021
$8.5m
SEED
Total funding: $34.9m
Company benefits
- 💵 A competitive startup package including tax-advantaged EMI stock options that vest monthly after a one-year cliff
- 📍 Offices in central London (Spitalfields)
- 🏡 A flexible approach to working remotely
- ☕️ All the usual office facilities, including free tea, coffee & snacks
- 🐶 Both our offices are dog-friendly (20% distracting, but 100% cute)
- 🚲 Cycling or running to work? We’ve got showers, bike storage and lockers
- ✈️ Quarterly team socials all together
- 🏥 Private health insurance
Company values
- Startup mentality: you're a team player but can just as well work autonomously and lead your own projects when needed
- Influencer: you're able to communicate your ideas clearly and have a convincing business case for new initiatives you propose
- Communicator: you're able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Open minded: you're always ready to explore new approaches to development, new technologies, and ideas from other members of the team
- User-centric: you have a strong interest in user experience and you always put the customer at the centre of your decisions
- Growth mentality: you're passionate about what you do and eager to learn and grow with us
Company HQ
Spitalfields, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Martin Sokk
(CEO)Previously worked for 5 years at TransferWise, holding various positions such as Head of People for 1 year and Head of Product for 4 years.
Mihkel Aamer
(CTO)Previously Software engineer at UBS for 1 year and Engineering Lead at Transferwise for 6 years.
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