Product Manager

About Salary Finance

Working with employers, we provide a financial wellbeing platform as an employee benefit, helping employees to understand their money better, get out of debt faster and save for their future. We already have a reach of over 4,000,000 employees through our relationships with over 600 of the biggest companies in the UK. 

By improving employee financial wellbeing, we have a very real and meaningful impact on people’s lives. We remove the stress and worry associated with financial difficulties by dramatically reducing the interest rates employees pay on their personal debt, and provide them with the tools needed to start saving sooner and be more financially secure. We are backed by some of the biggest brands, including investments from Blenheim Chalcot (the UK’s leading venture builder), Legal and General (the FTSE 100 insurer and asset manager), Experian and Goldman Sachs, and funding partnerships with JP Morgan and Virgin Money. 

Launched in 2015, we have made excellent progress, and are scaling fast. We are named BITC’s Responsible Business of Year 2018, included in KPMG’s Global Fintech 100, listed top of the Forbes’ list of socially-responsible startups, and profiled by the Financial Times, the Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Guardian, the Telegraph, CityAM and the Institute of Directors. 

Your role in our mission

As a Product Manager at Salary Finance, you’ll be responsible for the creation and evolution of brilliant product features that meet the needs of our customers and of our business. To do this, you’ll need to develop a keen understanding of Salary Finance - of both our objectives and the context we operate within - and of our wonderful customers - their behaviours, attitudes, wants and needs.

What you’ll do 

You’ll operate largely as an individual contributor, but collaboration with your Product Engineering peers and the rest of the organisation, is of course essential to succeed in this role.  This role reports into the Head of Product.

As a Product Manager working across multiple Salary Finance products, you will:

• Be responsible for achieving specific outcomes, ensuring that we are always progressing towards achieving our company OKRs.
• Identify feature opportunities, test assumptions, and implement solutions that meet the needs of our customers.
• Measure the impact of the changes you make; we won’t always achieve what we anticipated, but we must always be able to measure if that was the case, and then strive to understand why.
• Work with engineering teams to create epics and user stories that clearly articulate your requirements.

About you

• You are an intelligent and quick learner who has worked on complex projects and/or products. 
• You have worked in product or consultancy and you enjoy the opportunity to throw yourself into varied tasks.
• You have excellent stakeholder management skills and understand how to keep everyone informed and engaged in your product.
• You have excellent writing skills and understand the importance of creating great documentation as a way to communicate your plan.
• You are comfortable running and managing a roadmap and understand that a product manager needs to be constantly communicating and agreeing what they’re going to deliver if they are to provide value.
• You are passionate about businesses that deliver social impact, and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society.
• You can work independently and produce accurate, high quality work within short time constraints.
• You are practical and understand that whilst you will make prioritisation decisions, you will also need to agree the roadmap and negotiate positively with stakeholders.

Nice to have

• You are degree educated (or equivalent) and have a passion for applying technology and
  innovative thinking to disrupt traditional markets.
• You are knowledgeable about agile having spent time both working in agile environments and studying the fundamentals of agile and the different methodologies used. 
• You have been a Product Owner and understand the dynamics of working with a Development Team, are capable of adapting to different environments and situations, and have demonstrable experience of this.
• You have been responsible for managing your own roadmap and agreeing this with stakeholders.
• You have knowledge of customer research and understand the importance of getting customer feedback and data into your product build cycle.
• You have experience in performing user testing and have a good understanding of the fundamentals.
• You have experience within Financial Services or within a regulated environment.

Who you are

We embrace our differences, but there’s one thing we like to share, which is our values, so it’s important to us that you are:

• Fearless, and able to make the impossible possible.
• Responsible, and want to help build a business that delivers a meaningful difference to society.
• Dedicated and want to commit to an exciting journey even through the highs and lows.
• Empathetic and truly care about every colleague and customer.
• United, because you understand we achieve more when we work as a team.
• Humble, and take feedback as a way to continuously improve.

What do you get for all your hard work?

• Company bonus scheme 💰
• 25 days holiday with an extra day off on your birthday 🎂
• hybrid working offered 🏢
• Generous company benefits to include pension and life assurance and an annual allowance to spend on medical insurance, health cash plan, denplan, gym memberships 🤸
• Enhanced policies that are family and pet friendly, to include company sick pay and peternity leave 🐶
• Great career development in a fast paced environment 🚀
• Regular company socials 
• Volunteer days as part of our CSR program 🤝
• More great perks to include weekly snacks, tuckshop, cycle to work, help to save and much more! 🍭

The typical interview process

• Phone call with our Talent Manager - 20 mins
• Video interview with Hiring Manager - 30 mins 
• Case Study to give you a taster of the role - 35 mins 
• In person interview with Hiring Manager, Head of Department, Stakeholder, and / or Team -  60 mins 

We’re looking for people that will get stuck in and make a difference. We have a great collaborative, entrepreneurial team and are passionate about what we do. If you want to join a team that is changing people’s lives for the better then we’d love to hear from you.

Learn more at salaryfinance.com

Salary Finance is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment where all employees and applicants can flourish.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.